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 Savile, knight, to his Edition of some of our oldest Historians in Latin, dedicated to the Late Queen Elizabeth' (1618?). This small piece is frequently quoted for the notices it contains of contemporary poets. It was published by Dr. Anthony Hall at the end of ‘Nicolai Triveti Annalium Continuatio, ut et Adami Murimuthensis Chronicon, &c.,’ Oxford, 1722, and it is reprinted in Haslewood’s ‘Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poësy,’ Vol. ii. Lond. 1815. ‘Nero Cæsar, or Monarchie depraved. An historicall worke. Dedicated, with leaue, to the Dvke of Bvckingham, Lord Admirall. By the Translator of Lucivs Florvs,’ Lond. 11124, fnl; 2nd edit, enlarged, 1627. This is a life of Nero with particular notes of transactions in Britain. Bolton brings coins and medals to illustrate statements by historians. The Harleian MS. 6521 consists, for the most part, of extracts from ancient authors, gathered in preparation for this book and for a similar work which he contemplated on the life of Tiberius. At the end of some copies of ‘Nero Caesar’ there is a tract entitled: ‘An Historicall Parallel; or a Demonstration of the notable oddes, for the more use of Life, betweene reading large histories, and briefe ones, how excellent soever, as those of Lucius Florus. Heretofore, privately written to my good and noble friend Endymion Porter, Esq., one of the Gentlemen of the Princes bed-chamber.' ‘Commentaries Roial. Comprehending the end of King James, & beginning of King Charles. The historical part illuminated with coiines of Honour.' The contents of this book, with its dedication to King Charles I, are preserved in the Royal MS. 18 A. lxxi. The treatise itself is in the State Paper Office. ‘The Cities Advocate, in this Case or Question of Honor and Annes, Whether Apprenticeship extinguisheth Gentry?’ Lon. 1629, 4to. The second edition is entitled ‘The Cities great concern, in this Case or Question of Honour and Arms, Whether Apprenticeship extinguisheth Gentry? Discoursd; with a clear refutation of the pernicious error that it doth,’ Lond. 1675, 12mo. The tract is generally but wrongly attributed to John Philipot, Somerset herald. ‘The Cabanet Royal, with the chief prouisions which constitute and furnish it for the seruice of Civil Wisdome, & Civil Glorie, Toucht vpon in an Epistle Roial, 23 Octob. 1627.’ Dedicated to King Charles I. Royal MS. 18A, lxxi. ‘Vindiciæ Britannicæ, or London righted by rescues and Recoveries of antiquities of Britain in general, & of London in particular, against unwarrantable prejudices, and historical antiquations amongst the learned; for the more honour, & perpetual just uses of the noble island & the city.' This book was never printed, though prepared by the author for the press. Latin verses before Camden‘s Britannia,' before Andrewes’ ‘Unmasking of a Feminine Machiavell,’ 1604, and before Jonson's 'Volpone,' 1605. Ritson ascribes to him a sonnet ‘to Lucie countesse of Bedford’ prefixed to Drayton‘s ‘Mortimeriados,’ 1596, and he is probably the ‘E. B.’ who in 1606 published the ‘Hero and Leander’ of Marlow and Chapman. In the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian (lxxiii. 256) are a few verses by Bolton to the Duke of Buckingham in 1624.

 BOLTON, GEORGE (d. 1807?), writer on firearms, was preceptor to the royal princesses in writing, geography, &c. He was knighted on 3 April 1799, and died about 1807. He published ‘Remarks on the present defective state of Firearms with an explanation of a newly invented patent Gunlock,’ London, 1795, 8vo.

 BOLTON, JAMES (fl. 1775–1795), was a self-taught naturalist in humble life, residing near Halifax in Yorkshire, who drew and etched all his own illustrations. He described the plants of Halifax in Watson's History of the Parish of Halifax,' London, 1775, 4to.

His larger works were: ‘Filices Britannicæ,’ Leeds, 1785, 4to. ‘A History of Funguses growing about Halifax,' four vols. 4to, Halifax and Huddersfield, 1788-91. ‘Harmonia Ruralis,’ an essay towards a natural history of British songbirds, 