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 566 STANYHURST. Roman Catholic. Removing afterwards to the continent, he is said by A. Wood to have become famous for his learn ing in France, and the Low Countries. Losing his wife, while he was abroad, he entered into orders, and was made chaplain, at Brussels, to Albert, Archduke of Austria, who was then governor of the Spanish Netherlands. At this place he died in 1618, being universally esteemed as an excellent scholar in the learned languages, a good divine, philosopher, historian, and poet. He kept up a constant correspondence with Usher, afterwards the celebrated arch bishop, who was his sister's son. They were allied, says Dodd, “in their studies as well as blood; being both very curious in searching after the writings of the primitive ages. But their reading had not the same effect. The uncle became a Catholic, and took no small pains to bring over the nephew.” Stanyhurst published several works, the first of which was written when he had been only two years at Oxford, and published about five years after. It was a learned commentary on Porphyry, and raised the greatest expectations of his powers, being mentioned with particular praise, as the work of so, young a man, by Edmund Campion the Jesuit then a student of St. John's college. It is entitled, “Harmonia, seu catena dialectica in Porphyrium,” London, 1570, folio. 2 . “De rebus in Hibernia gestis, lib. iv.” Antwerp, 1584, 4to. According to Keating, this work abounds, not only in errors, but misrepresentations, which Stanyhurst afterwards acknow ledged. 3. “Descriptio Hiberniae,” inserted in Hollinshed's Chronicle. 4. “De vita S. Patricii, Hibernia Apostoli, lib. ii.” Antwerp, 1587, 12mo. 5. “Hebdomada Mariana,” Antwerp, 1609, 8vo. 6 . “ Hebdomada Eucharistica,” Douay, 1614, 8vo. 7. “Brevis praemonitio pro futura concertatione cum Jacobo Usserio,” Douay, 1615, 8vo. 8. “The Principles of the Catholic Religion.” 9. “The four first books of Virgil's HEneis, in English hexameters,” 1583, small 8vo, black letter. To these are subjoined the four first Psalms; the first in English Iambics, though he confesses, that “the Iambical quantitie relisheth somwhat