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of Queen Mary. He was in great efteem about the15th of Elizabeth. Ridley gives him the charadterof a man of much eloquence, both in Englifh andLatin .

He was the author of feveral poems, among theEarl of Surrey’s “ Songs and Sonnets His “ Ar-chipropheta, five Johannes Baptijla Tragadia,” wasfirft printed in 1548. The titles of feveral otherdramatic pieces, poems, tranflations, &c. will befound in Bale and Tanner.

Gabriel Harvey , was born about 1545, of agood family, nearly related to Sir Thomas Smith ,and was educated at Chrift’s, where he took bothhis degrees of Arts. He was afterwards Prodlor ofthe Univerfity. Having applied himfelf to the ftudy-of the Civil Law, in 1585, he took his degree inthat faculty, and p radii fed as an Advocate in thePrerogative Court of Canterbury, at London .

Towards the latter part of his life, he began toftudy Aftrology, and finally turned Almanac-maker;an which capacity he was feverely and not undeferv-edly ridiculed by Thomas Nafh and Robert Green.

He died in the year 163d, aged eighty-five.

Wood fays, he was efteemed an ingenious manand an excellent fcholar. Spenfer, the Poet , washis intimate friend; from whom we learn, that hetvas highly efteemed by the all-accomplilhed Sir Philip Sidney and Mr. Dyer.

As to his poetical talents, Mr. -Upton is of opi-nion,