of the Oriental Tongues,’ London, 1649, and, after serving as the effigies of Bold, was used with another alias as the frontispiece of the ‘Occult Physick' of William Williams of Gloucestershire, 1660, and of the ‘Divine Poems and Meditations' by William Williams of the county of Cornwall, London, 1677. In ‘Wit a Sporting' Bold has stolen much from Herrick, and nearly fifty pages are from Thomas Beedome’s ‘Poems Divine and Humane,' London,1641. 2. ‘St. George’s Day, sacred to the coronation of his most excellent majesty Charles II,’ London, 1661 (3 folio leaves). 3. ‘On the Thunder happening after the Solemnity of the Coronation of Charles II,’ 1661 (a sheet in verse). 4. ‘Poems Lyrique, Macaronique, Heroique, &c. By Henry Bold olim è N. C. Oxon.,’ London, 1664, This is dedicated to Colonel Henry Wallop, and has commendatory verses by Alexander Brome, Dr. Valentine Oldis, and by his two brothers, William Bold and Norton Bold, C.C.C. Oxon. S. The songs in the volume are licentious, but there are also a number of occasional pieces, several of them addressed to Charles II. ‘Expect the second part,’ says the author, but no second part is known. Wood is mistaken ‘when he states that this volume contains ‘Scarronides; or Virgil Travestie.’ This was the work of Charles Cotton. 5. ‘Latine Songs, with their English, and Poems. By 'Henry Bold, formerly of N. Coll. in Oxon, afterwards of the Examiner’s Office in Chancery. Collected and perfected by Captain, William Bold,’ London, 1685—a posthumous collection from the author’s scattered papers. The translations justify the commendations of Anthony à Wood, but the songs selected are often gross and worthless. There is a spirited Latin version of ‘Chevy Chace,’ and Bold‘s rendering of Suckling’s famous song'
begins:-
Cur palleas, Amasie?
Cur quæso palleas?
Si non rubente facie,
Squallente valeas?
Cur quæso palleas?
Another Henry Bold was of Christ Church, Oxford, chaplain to the Earl of Arlington, fellow of Eton College, and chanter in Exeter Cathedral. He died at Montpellier, ‘as 'twas reported,' in 1677.
[Corser’s Collectanea Anglo-Poetica (Chatham Society, vol. lv.), 1861; Dibdin's Reminiscences of a Literary Life, 1836, p. 934; Wood's Athenæ Oxon ed. Bliss, iv. 115; Fasti, 278; Hazlitt's Handbook to Literature of Great Britain to the Restoration, London, 1867; Griffiths’s Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica, 1805; Lowndes’s Bibl. Man. ed. Bohn, 1864.]
BOLD, JOHN (1679–1751), divine, born at Leicester in 1679, entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1694, and proceeded B.A. in 1698. He was master of a small school at Hinckley, Leicestershire, from 1698 to 1732 (which brought him in 10l. a year), and was curate of Stoney Stanton near Hinckley (at a salary of 30l.) from May 1702 until his death on 29 Oct. 1751. Bold wholly devoted himself to the religious welfare of his parishioners, and, although without private means, lived so frugally that he was able out of his small income to relieve his necessitous neighbours, and to make several charitable bequests at his death. He was the author of: 1. ‘The Sin and Danger of neglecting the public service of the Church,’ 1745, which was frequently reissued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 2. ‘Religion the most delightful Employment.’ 3. ‘The Duty of worthy Communicating recommended and explained.
[A very eulogistic memoir by the Rev. R. B. Nickolls is printed in Nicholls’s Illustrations, v. 130-42.]
BOLD, SAMUEL (1649–1737), controversialist, apparently a native of Chester, was brought up under the care of William Cook, a distinguished nonconformist divine, who was ejected from St. Michael's Church, Chester, in 1662, and died in 1684. Bold was instituted vicar of Shapwick in Dorsetshire in 1674, but resigned or was ejected in 1688; he was instituted rector of Steeple in the Isle of Purbeck in 1682, and held the living for fifty-six years, till his death. In 1721 he succeeded to the adjacent parish of Tyneham, united to Steeple by act of parliament. In 1682, when a brief for the persecuted protestants in France was commanded to be read in the churches, Bold preached, from the epistle for the day, a sermon against persecution, which he shortly afterwards published. The sermon reached a second edition in the same year, and raised a great outcry, which only impelled Bold to publish a ‘Plea for Moderation towards Dissenters.' He here justifies his general praise of nonconformist divines by many special instances, mentioning, amongst others, Mr. Baxter and Mr. Hickman as ‘shining lights in the church of God.'
The grand jury at the next assize presented Bold for the sermon and also for the ‘Plea,' and he was cited before the court of Bishop Gulston of Bristol, where he was accused of having ‘writ and preached a scandalous libel.’ Bold wrote answers to these charges, but, his ‘answers being said to be worse than
