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 newed by King's College in 1605. On 5 Aug. 1611 James I sent a letter to the provost and fellows to grant his widow the term of ten years in that parsonage.

The following is a list of the works written by or ascribed to Fletcher: 1. Latin verses (a) in the collection presented by the Eton scholars to Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, 1563; (b) prefixed to Foxe's ‘Acts and Monuments,’ 2nd edit. 1570; (c) subjoined to Carr's ‘Demosthenes,’ 1571; (d) with Walter Haddon's poems, 1576; (e) before Peter Baro's ‘Prelections on Jonah,’ 1579; (f) on the motto and crest of Maximilian Brooke in Holinshed's ‘Chronicles,’ p. 1512; (g) in the Cambridge University collection, on the death of Sir Philip Sidney, 1587. 2. A Latin letter in the name of the university of Cambridge. In ‘Epistolæ Academiæ,’ MS. ii. 455. 3. A brief of his ‘Negotiation in Moscovia.’ In Lansd. MS. 60, art. 59; Ellis's ‘Letters of Eminent Literary Men,’ 76–85; and Bond's ‘Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century,’ p. 342. 4. ‘Of the Russe Common Wealth; or, Manner of Government by the Russe Emperour (commonly called the Emperour of Moskouia), with the Manners and Fashions of the People of that Country,’ London, 1591, 8vo. Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. Abridged, with the suppression of material passages, in Hakluyt's ‘Voyages,’ i. 474. Reprinted also, with the suppression of some passages and many verbal differences, in ‘Purchas, his Pilgrimes,’ iii. 413. Epitomised by Harris, in his ‘Collection of Voyages,’ i. 542. Reprinted as ‘The History of Russia, or the Government of the Emperour of Muscovia, with the Manners and Fashions of the People of that Countrey,’ London, 1643, 1657, 12mo; also with the proper title, from the original edition, in Edward A. Bond's ‘Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century,’ published for the Hakluyt Society, London, 1856, 8vo. There is a manuscript copy of the ‘Russe Common Wealth’ at University College, Oxford (MS. No. 144). Another manuscript copy is preserved at Queens' College, Cambridge. 5. ‘Answers to matters objected against Mr. Horsey by the Emperour's Counsel of Rusland.’ In Bond's ‘Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century,’ p. 373, from a manuscript in the state paper office. 6. ‘Licia, or Poemes of Love: in Honour of the admirable and singular Vertues of his Lady, to the imitation of the best Latin Poets, and others. Whereunto is added the Rising the Crowne of Richard the Third,’ 4to, n. d. Dedication to Lady Molineux, wife of Sir Richard Molineux, dated from the author's chamber 4 Sept. 1593. An edition of this work, prepared by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, who has prefixed a ‘Memorial-Introduction,’ was printed for private circulation in the ‘Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library,’ 1871. Cf. Hunter's ‘New Illustrations of Shakespeare,’ ii. 77, 78; Dyce's ‘Account of the Lives and Writings of Beaumont and Fletcher,’ pp. xv, xvi. 7. ‘Reasons to moue her Majesty in some Commisseration towards the Orphanes of the late Bisshopp of London,’ Lambeth MS. 658, f. 193; Dyce's ‘Account of the Lives and Writings of Beaumont and Fletcher,’ p. xiv, and less correctly in Birch's ‘Elizabeth,’ ii. 113. 8. ‘De literis antiquæ Britanniæ, Regibus præsertim qui doctrina claruerunt, quique Collegia Cantabrigiæ fundarunt,’ in Latin verse, Cambridge, 1633, 12mo. Edited by his son Phineas. 9. ‘An Essay upon some probable grounds that the present Tartars, near the Cyprian Sea, are the Posterity of the Ten Tribes of Israel.’ Printed in Samuel Lee's ‘Israel Redux,’ 1677, from the author's manuscript, furnished by his grandson, Phineas Fletcher, citizen of London; and again by Whiston in his ‘Memoirs,’ 1749, p. 576, from a manuscript formerly in Sir Francis Nethersole's library, under the following title: ‘A Discourse concerning the Tartars, proving, in all probability, that they are the Israelites, or Ten Tribes, which, being captivated by Salmanaser, were transplanted into Media.’ 10. Three Eclogues in ‘Poemata varii argumenti,’ 1678. They are entitled respectively ‘Contra Prædicatorum Contemptum,’ ‘Querela Collegii Regalis,’ and ‘De morte Boneri.’

[Addit. MS. 6177, p. 151; Ames's Typogr. Antiq. (Herbert), p. 1128; Baker MS. iv. 14 seq.; Beloe's Anecdotes, v. 222; Biog. Brit.; Birch's Elizabeth, ii. 77, 78, 100, 101, 113, 114, 150, 171, 223, 224; Memoir by E. A. Bond; Chamberlain's Letters, temp. Eliz. p. 106; Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. iii. 34 (unpublished); Cotton. MS. Nero B. v. 333; Dixon's Personal Hist. of Lord Bacon, p. 317; Dyce's Lives of Beaumont and Fletcher; Ellis's Letters of Eminent Lit. Men, p. 76; Faulkner's Chelsea, ii. 128, 196, Fuller's Worthies, ‘Kent;’ Green's Cal. State Papers, Dom. James I, ii. 66; Grosart's Memorial-Introduction to Licia; Heywood and Wright's King's and Eton Colleges, pp. 239–41, 245, 248, 252; Horne's Cat. of Queen's Coll. Library, p. 1002; Hunter's Illustr. of Shakespeare, ii. 77, 78; Jardine on Torture, p. 92; Lansd. MSS. xxiii. art. 18–20, 24, 26, 36, lx. art. 59, lxv. f. 154, lxxii. art. 28, cxii. art. 39; Ledger Coll. Regal. ii. 537, iii. 19, 132; Lemon's Cal. State Papers, Dom. ii. 100, 646; Le Neve's Fasti (Hardy), ii. 357; Lloyd's State Worthies, p. 662; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), pp. 810, 1358; Lodge's Illustr. ii. 547; Newcourt's Repertorium, i. 107; Lib. Protocoll. Coll. Regal. i. 227, 238, ii. 19; Stephenson's Suppl. to Bentham's Ely, p. 32; Strype's Annals, ii. 420, 422, iv. 268