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1587. Henry Denham dwelt at the sign of the Star, in Paternoster-row, with this motto about it, o$ homini svblime dedit, which lie put at the end of several of his boolcs. In 1580, he dwelt in Whttecross-street, and was assignee to William Seres, whose device of the Bear and Ragged Staff, within the garter, he sometimes used. In 1586, he removed into Aldersgate- street. The commencement of his tvpographical labours is dated 1A64, when he printed a book entitled the Pitifull estate of the time present. 16mo. In 1667, he printed the New Testament in Welsh (see p. 336, ante.) with the following title : — Testament newydd ein arglwydd Jetu Christ. Gwedy ei dunnu, yd y gadei yr aney fiaith 'air yn ei yylydd or Groec a'r Llatin, gan nncidio ffurf uythyren gairiae-dodi. Eh law hyng y mae pop gair a dybiwyty votyn andeallus, ai o ran llediaith y* wlat, ai o ancynefindery devnydd, tredy ei noli ai eglurhau ar' ledemyl y ht dalen gydrehiol. This was printed at the cost of Hiimphrey Toy, and dedicated by William Salesbury to queen Elizabeth, with privilege. In the same year as this testament was printed, a boolt in Welsh was printed at MUan. In 1586, John Windet printed the CommMn Prayer into the British tongue ; at the costes and charges of Thomas Chard. 4to.
7%« garland of godlie flowers, commonlie called Ttpinespraiers, carefully collected, and beautifully adorned uAth the most fragrant blossoms t/tat JUmrith in the comfortable garden of the right pure and saeredscriplures,jrc. Londmi,imprinted by Henry Denham, 1586. 16mo. Round the title is a very neat border.
Foot path to felicity, guide to godliness, school of skill, swarm of bees, plant of pleasure, grove of graces. By A. Flemish. London, imprinted by Henry Denham, 1686. \2mo.
1587. Gebard Dewes was a good printer, and kept shop at the sign of the Swan, in St. Paul's church yard, and practised the art from 1562, though only eight works bear his imprint.
Gerard Dewes used the an- nexed rebus, of which Cam- den observes, "And if you re- quire more,I refer you to the witty inventions of some Lon- doners ; but that for Garret Dewes is most remarlcable, two in a garret castingDewes at dice."
In 1578, Gerard Dewes printed A nietve her- batl, or historic of plants. First set forth in the Dutch or Almagne tongue, by Rembrand Doda- naus, phycition to the emperrour ; and now first translated out of French into English, by Henry
- Apoc. or Revel, v. 8. viala, ^toXd;, Brit. Ffiolao. Bp.
Morgan tianilates it crpt^nn, crowds, whicb abows that be bad not the original lieforc him, bat only the English ; aiHl that be did not distiogniab between vials, and viois or violins.
Lyte, esquyre, dedicated to queen Elizabeth. At London by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Paul's churchyarde, at the signe of the Swanne. It contains 779 pages in folio, without the tables, but at the end, emprinted at Antwerpe, by me Henry Loe, book printer, and are to be sold at London, in Powels church-yard, by Gerard Dewes.
1687. Feb. 8. Mary Stuart, queen of Scots, beheaded at Fotberingay castle, in Northampton- shire, by order of Elizabeth, queen of England, to whom she had fled for protection in 1568, after having been obliged by the nobles to resign her crown, on the 15th of July, 1667, in favour of her infant son, James VI. of Scotland, who on the death of Eliza1>eth, ascended the throne of England', under the title of James I.
Mary Stuart was daughter and heir of James v.* king of Scotland, by Mary, of Lorrain, his second queen, and was born at the castle of Lin- lithgow, December 8, 1642. When about six years old, she was conveyed to France, where she was with great care educated. Her study was chiefly directed toleaming the modern languages; to these she added the Latin, in which she spoke an oration of her own composing in the guard room at the Louvre, before the royal family and nobility of France. She was naturally inclined to poetry, and so great a proficient in the art, that ner compositions were much valued by M. Ronsard, who was himself esteemed an eminent poet, and thus eulogised her majesty :
I saw the Scottish qaeen, so (Ur and vise She scem'd some power descended from the sides; Near to her eyes 1 drew ; two burning spheres They werej two suns of beauty, without peers. 1 saw them dimm'd with dewy moisture clear. And trembling on their lids a crystal tear ; Remembering France, her sceptre, and the day When her first love pass'd like a dream away.
She bad a good taste for music, and played well upon several instruments, was a fine dancer, and sat u horse gracefully, but her chief delight seemed to be when she was employed among her women at needlework.
On April 24, 1558, she was married to the Dauphin, afterwards Francis II. over whom her beauty and understanding gave her great influ- ence. He dying, Decembers, 1660, she returned to her native country, leaving the most refined and gay court in Europe, for the most turbulent and austere. She arrived at Leith, August 23, 1661, and was married to her cousin Henry lord Daraley, July 29, 1666, upon which he was pro- claimed king of Scotland. The beauty of Dara- ley was his only merit, he was weak and crael, and by his conduct made Mary bitterly repent the honour she had done him. Bursting into her apartment, with some lords devoted to his purpose, he seized and murdered Rizzio,t an Italian musician, whom lie himself first distin- guished, and then in a few days openly declared
- Died at Falldand, December 13, IMS, leaving his
infant daughter to the care of a nobili^ distracted by ani- mosities again-st each other.
t David Rizzio was murdered in the presence of the queen, at Hoiyrood house, March 9. ISM.
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