termined to imprison John Day the printer, but after perusing a copy, which Underhill showed him, he came to the conclusion that it was ‘bothe pythie and mery,’ and suffered Day to depart unpunished. Luke, however, appears to have been incarcerated in the Fleet for a second time, in the reign of Mary, on account of this book. He was the author of several other anonymous controversial pamphlets, and, according to Warton, of a translation of some psalms, published about 1554 (Hist. English Poetry, iii. 261).
[Black's Introduction; Nichols's Narratives of the Reformation (Camd. Soc. Publ. 1859), pp. 171–2, 325–6; Holinshed's Chronicle, 1587, iii. 1168; Brydges's Censura Literaria, v. 277–80; Ames's Typogr. Antiq. ed. Herbert, 1785, i. 619–20; Ritson's Bibliographia Poetica, 1802, p. 330.]
SHEPHERD, RICHARD (1732?–1809), versifier and theologian, born about 1732, son of Henry Shepherd (d. 1764), vicar of Mareham-le-Fen, Lincolnshire, matriculated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 1 Dec. 1749, at the age of seventeen. He graduated B.A. 1753, M.A. 1757, B.D. 1765, and D.D. 1788, and was elected probationary fellow of his college in 1760. His first intention was to follow a military life, but he took orders in the English church. After residing for many years at Oxford, he became chaplain to Thomas Thurlow [q. v.], successively bishop of Lincoln and Durham, by whose nomination he was installed on 26 July 1783 in the archdeaconry of Bedford. In 1788 he was Bampton lecturer at Oxford, publishing his lectures as ‘Ground and Credibility of the Christian Religion,’ 1788. ‘Additional Discourses’ thereto were published by him in 1792, and three were republished by his son in 1848, with the title ‘Salvation is of the Jews.’ By the gift of Lord-chancellor Thurlow he was instituted in 1792 to the rectory of Wetherden and Helmingham in Suffolk, and held these preferments until his death at Wetherden, on 3 Jan. 1809, in his seventy-eighth year. He had been elected F.R.S. on 10 May 1781.
The numerous works of Shepherd included, in addition to sermons and charges:
- ‘Ode to Love’ (anon.), 1756; this was afterwards reissued under the title of ‘The Philologist.’
- ‘Review of a Free Enquiry [by Soame Jenyns] into the Nature and Origin of Evil’ (anon.), 1759; 2nd ed. 1768.
- ‘Odes, Descriptive and Allegorical’ (anon.), 1761.
- ‘The Nuptials, a didactic Poem in three books’ (anon.), 1761.
- ‘Hector, a dramatic Poem’ (anon.), 1770.
- ‘Bianca, a Tragedy,’ 1772 (most of the above were reprinted in ‘Miscellanies,’ 2 vols. 1776).
- ‘Reflections on Materialism, addressed to Priestley; by Philalethes Rusticans,’ 1779.
- ‘Examination of the Socinian Exposition of the Prefatory Verses of St. John's Gospel,’ 1781.
- ‘Essay on Education, in a Letter to William Jones,’ 1782.
- ‘Polyænus's Stratagems of War,’ translated from the original Greek, 1793; this had lain in his desk for more than thirty years, when Lord Cornwallis advised its publication.
- ‘Notes on the Gospel and Epistles of St. John,’ 1796; new ed. 1841, edited by his son.
- ‘The new Boethius; or of the Consolation of Christianity,’ 1806.
- ‘Religious Union perfective, and the support of Civil Union’ (anon.), 1807.
- ‘No False Alarm, or a Sequel to Religious Union,’ 1808.
[Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1715–1886; Nichols's Lit. Anecdotes, ii. 328–9, 361; Gent. Mag. 1809, i. 91–2; Halkett and Laing's Anon. Lit. pp. 1080, 1761, 1802–3, 2109, 2183, 2194.]
SHEPHERD, RICHARD HERNE (1842–1895), bibliographer, born at Chelsea early in 1842, was a younger son of Samuel Shepherd, F.S.A. His grandfather, Richard Herne Shepherd (1775–1850), was from 1818 to 1848 a well-known ‘revivalist’ preacher at the Ranelagh Chapel, Chelsea, and published, besides sermons and devotional works, a volume of meditative verse entitled ‘Gatherings of Fifty Years’ (1843).
The younger Richard was educated largely at home, developed a taste for literature, and published at the age of sixteen a copy of verses entitled ‘Annus Moriens’ (1858). In 1861 he issued an essay on ‘The School of Pantagruel,’ in which he traced ‘Pantagruelism’ in England from Rochester to Sterne. Subsequently he edited booksellers' editions of the classics, including Blake's ‘Poems’ (1868 and 1874), Shelley's ‘Poems’ (1871), Lamb's ‘Poetry for Children’ (1872 and 1878), Chapman's ‘Works’ (1874), Lamb's ‘Works’ (1875), Ebenezer Jones's ‘Poems’ (1879), Poe's ‘Works’ (1884), Dickens's ‘Speeches’ (1884), Dickens's ‘Plays and Poems’ (1885), and Shelley's ‘Prose Works’ (1888). In 1869 he published ‘Translations from Beaudelaire’ (reissued 1877, 12mo); in 1873 he printed, with notes, Coleridge's forgotten tragedy ‘Osorio,’ and in 1875 ‘The Lover's Tale’ (of 1833) and other early uncollected poems of Tennyson (unearthed from albums and periodicals). Fifty copies were privately printed in 1875, but the volume was suppressed by injunction in the court of chancery. In 1878 he published Mrs. E. Barrett Browning's ‘Earlier Poems’
