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 BOSWORTH, WILLIAM (1607–1650?), poetical writer, belonged to a family (whose name is sometimes spelt Boxworth) of Boxworth, near Harrington, Cambridgeshire. He wrote much poetry in his youth, but published nothing himself. He died about 1650, and in the following year an admiring friend (R. C.) issued, with a dedication to John Finch, Bosworth's essays in poetry. The volume bears the title, ‘The Chast and Lost Lovers Lively shadowed in the persona of Arcadius and Septa .... To this is added the Contestation betwixt Bacchus and Diana, and certain Sonnets of the Author to. Digested into three Poems by ''Will. Bosworth'', Gent.,’ London, 1651. In the preface R. C. states that the author studied to imitate ‘Ovid's Metamorphosis,' ‘Mr. Marlow in his Hero and Leander,’ Sir Philip Sidney, and ‘Mr. Edmund Spe[n]cer,’ Five copies of verses signed respectively L. B., F[rancis] L[ovelace], E[dmund] G[ayton], S. P., and L. C., lament Bosworth's death. The chief poem of the volume (the ‘Historie of Arcadius and Septa,’ in two books) is followed by ‘Hinc Lachrimæ, or the Avthor to Avrora’ —an appeal to Azile, a disdainful mistress, verses ‘to the immortal,' memory of the fairest and most vertuous Lady, the Lady ——,' and 'to his dear Friend, Mr. John Emely, upon his Travells.’ The first poem is a very promising performance for a youth of nineteen, Bosworth's age at the date of its composition. A portrait of Bosworth, ‘æt. 30, 1637’ (engraved by G. Glover), is prefixed to the volume.

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BOTELER, EDWARD (d. 1670), divine, was a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. On 8 April 1644 he was ejected from his fellowship by the Earl of Manchester. Before 1658 he became rector of Wintringham, Lincolnshire. He was a strong, though not an active, royalist. On the return of Charles II he preached a rejoicing sermon in Lincoln cathedral, and a similar one at Hull, on occasion of the coronation. He was made one of the king’s chaplains. On 29 Sept. 1665 he was installed in the prebend of Southscarle, in Lincoln cathedral; this he exchanged on 12 Oct. 1668 for the prebend of Leicester St. Margaret’s in the same. He died in 1670. He published several sermons. The earliest seems to have been ‘The Worthy of Ephratah: represented in a sermon at the funerals of Edmund, Earl of Mulgrave, 21 Sept. 1658,’ &c., 1659, 8vo (text, Ruth iv. ll). Six others are enumerated by Watt.

 BOTELER, NATHANIEL (fl. 1625–1627), captain in the royal navy, is named in different lists of this date as ‘an able and experienced sea-captain’ (State Papers, Charles I, Dom. xxxii. 75, lxv. 70). He took part in the expeditions to Cadiz (, Journal of the Voyage to Cadiz, Camden Society, 1883) and the Isle of Ré; and at some later period claimed to have ‘been a commander in all our late actions abroad.' As he at the same time maintained that ‘all such as are to command as captains in any man-of-war serving in his majesty’s pay ought to be of noble birth and education,' it must he resumed that he, in his own person, fulfilled these conditions, though his relationship to Lord Boteler cannot now be traced. At the present day, however, his best claim to distinction is his having been the author of ‘Six Dialogues about Sea Services between an High Admiral and a Captain at Sea’ (1685, fcp. 8vo). This book contains a quaint and interesting account of naval rules, customs, and discipline existing in the time of Charles I, and has a very real value to the student of naval archæology. The exact date to which it refers does not appear, but lies probably between 1630–40; the publisher, Moses Pitt, gives no further account of it than, ‘Meeting with this book in manuscript, and liking well the contents thereof, I was encouraged to undertake the printing of it.’

 BOTELER, WILLIAM FULLER (1777–1845), commissioner of bankruptcy, was the only son of William Boteler, F.S.A., of Brook Street, Eastry, Kent, by his first wife Sarah, daughter of Thomas Fuller, of Statenborough, Kent. He was born on 5 Jan. 1777, and was educated, under Dr. Raine, at Charterhouse, and afterwards at St. John's College, Cambridge. He was senior Wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman for 1799, and in the same year graduated B.A., and was elected a fellow of St. Peter's College. He proceeded M.A. in 1802, and having been admitted a student of Lincoln‘s Inn on 19 Nov. 1801,