knighted in 1597. James granted him Warwick Castle in 1605, but he was no friend of Robert Cecil, and took no great part in affairs until 1614, when he became Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1621 he was created Lord Brooke. On 1 Sept. 1628 he was stabbed to death by his
servant Ralph Haywood. D. Lloyd, Statesmen of England (1665), 504, makes him claim to have been 'master' to Shakespeare and Jonson.
Collections S. R. 1632, Nov. 10 (Herbert). 'A booke called Certaine learned and elegant Workes of Fulke Lord Brooke the perticular names are as followeth (viz^t) . . . The Tragedy of Alaham. The Tragedy of Mustapha (by assignment from Master Butter). . . . Seile (Arber, iv. 288). 1633. Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke, Written in his Youth, and familiar exercise with Sir Philip Sidney. The seuerall Names of which Workes the following page doth declare. E. P. for Henry Seyle. [Contains Alaham and Mustapha.] 1670. The Remains of Sir Fulk Grevill Lord Brooke: Being Poems of Monarchy and Religion: Never before Printed. T. N. for Henry Herringham. [Contains Alaham and Mustapha.] 1870. A. B. Grosart, The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of the Lord Brooke. 4 vols. (Fuller Worthies Library). Dissertations: M. W. Croll, The Works of F. G. (1903, Pennsylvania thesis); R. M. Cushman (M. L. N. xxiv. 180).
Alaham. c. 1600 (?) [MS.] Holograph at Warwick Castle (cf. Grosart, iv. 336). 1633. [Part of Coll. 1633. Prologue and Epilogue; at end, 'This Tragedy, called Alaham, may be printed, this 13 day of June 1632, Henry Herbert.'] Croll dates 1586-1600 on metrical grounds, and Cushman 1598-1603, as bearing on Elizabethan politics after Burghley's death.
Mustapha. 1603 < > 8
[MSS.] Holograph at Warwick Castle (cf. Grosart, iv. 336). Camb. Univ. MS. F. f. 2. 35. S. R. 1608, Nov. 25 (Buck). 'A booke called the Tragedy of Mustapha and Zangar.' Nathanaell Butter (Arber, iii. 396). 1609. The Tragedy of Mustapha. For Nathaniel Butter.
S. R. 1632, Nov. 10. Transfer from Butter to Seile (Arber, iv. 288) (vide Collections, supra).
Cushman dates 1603-9, as bearing on the Jacobean doctrine of divine right.
MATTHEW GWINNE (c. 1558-1627).
Gwinne, the son of a London grocer of Welsh descent, entered St. John's, Oxford, from Merchant Taylors in 1574, and became Fellow of the College, taking his B.A. in 1578, his M.A. in 1582, and his M.D.
