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 Thynne  in 1875. 3. ‘Emblemes and Epigrams from my Howse in Clerkenwell Greene the 20th of December 1600,’ edited for the Early English Text Society in 1875 by F. J. Furnivall.

A transcript by Thynne of a valuable account of Wat Tyler's rebellion, taken from ‘An Anominall Cronicle belonginge to the Abbey of St. Maries in Yorke,’ was printed in the ‘English Historical Review’ for July 1898 (pp. 509–22). The original is in the Stowe manuscripts (No. 1047, ff. 64 b et seq.).

The following have not been printed. 4. ‘An Epistle dedicatorye of the Books of Armorye of Claudius Paradyne’ (1573); a ‘Dyscourse uppon the Creste of the Lorde Burghley,’ and another ‘Discourse uppon the Philosophers Armes,’ Ashmolean MS. 766, ff. 2–88. 5. ‘Dissertation on the Subject Homo Animal Sociale,’ sent to Lord Burghley in 1576, Lansdowne MS. 27, art. 37. 6. ‘A Discourse of Arms,’ 1593, manuscript in the College of Arms, but missing. 7. ‘The Plea between the Advocate and the Ant'advocate, concerning the Bathe and Bacheler Knightes, wherein are shewed manye Antiquityes towchinge Knighthood,’ 1605, Addit. MS. 12530; Lambeth MS. 931, fol. 42; imperfect copy in Cambridge University Library, Mm. C. 65. 8. ‘Collection of Arms and Monumental Inscriptions in Bedfordshire, Westminster Abbey, &c.’ in Cottonian MS. Cleop. C. iii. 9. ‘Commentarii de Historia et rebus Britannicis,’ 2 vols.; in Cottonian MS. Faust. E. viii. ix. 10. ‘Epitaphia, sive Monumenta Sepulchrorum tam Anglice, Latine, quam Gallice conscripta,’ Sloane MS. 3836. 11. ‘Collections relative to Alchymy, Heraldry, and Local History, 1564–1606,’ Addit. MS. 11388. 12. ‘Catalogue of the Lord Chancellors of England’ (Bridgwater Library). From this catalogue and others formed by Robert Glover [q. v.], Somerset herald, and Thomas Talbot [q. v.], clerk of the records in the Tower, John Philpot [q. v.], Somerset herald, framed his ‘Catalogue,’ London, 1636, 4to. Other manuscripts by Thynne are contained in the Stowe manuscripts, the Lansdowne manuscripts, the Ashmolean manuscripts, the Cottonian manuscripts, and the Bridgwater Library.

John Payne Collier unjustifiably assigned to Thynne four printed works: 1. ‘The Debate between Pride and Lowliness,’ London, n.d., 8vo. 2. ‘A Pleasant Dialogue between the Cap and the Head,’ London, 1564, 8vo. 3. ‘News from the North. Otherwise called a Conference between Simon Certain and Pierce Plowman,’ London, 1585, 4to. 4. ‘The Case is altered. How? Ask Dalio and Millo,’ London, 1604, 4to. Of these works the first is a poem, the other three are in prose. The internal evidence afforded by them is strongly opposed to the possibility of Thynne being their author. They are altogether unlike his genuine productions in subject, style, and treatment.

[Introduction to Furnivall's edition of Thynne's Animadversions (Chaucer Society), 1875; Addit. MS. 12514; Ames's Typogr. Antiq. (Herbert); Ayscough's Cat. of MSS.; Bernard's Cat. of MSS.; Black's Cat. of Ashmol. MSS. pp. 383, 520, 559, 625; Blakeway's Sheriffs of Salop, p. 116; Botfield's Stemmata Botevilliana, pp. 21, 51–3, 56, 59, 66, cxxxvi, clxxvi, cccxliii; Brydges's Restituta, i. 548; Collier's Bridgewater Catalogue, pp. 217, 311, 312; Collier's Bibliographical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, vol. i. pp. xlii*, 334, vol. ii. pp. 25, 427, 432, 450; Collier's Reg. Stat. Comp. ii. 101; Cottonian MSS.; Gent. Mag. 1856, ii. 85; Gough's Topographia; Harleian MSS.; Herald and Genealogist, i. 74; Lansdowne MSS.; Stowe MS. 1047, f. 267; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), p. 2682; Moule's Bibl. Herald, pp. 119, 309, 324; Noble's College of Arms, pp. 184, 188, 213; Notes and Queries, 1st ser. i. 60, 3rd ser. i. 242, iv. 505; Ritson's Bibl. Poetica, p. 361; Rymer's Fœdera, xvi. 471; Catalogue of State Papers; Todd's Cat. of Lambeth MSS.; Topographer and Genealogist, iii. 471–3, 485; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 107.]

 THYNNE, JOHN (d. 1580), builder of Longleat, was the eldest son of Thomas Thynne or De la Inne of Church Stretton, Shropshire, by his wife, Margaret, daughter and heiress of Thomas Eynes or Heynes of that place. He was early introduced at the court of Henry VIII by his uncle, William Thynne [q. v.]; and, 'being an ingenious man and a travalier,' was taken into the household of Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford and afterwards duke of Somerset [q. v.], whose steward he subsequently became. He accompanied Hertford's Scottish expedition in 1544. Three years later he served in Somerset's army of invasion, and was knighted after the battle of Pinkie (10 Sept. 1547), where he was wounded. In recognition of his services in North Britain he was allowed to quarter on his arms the Scots lion. Thynne had now by marriage and the favour of Somerset acquired a substantial fortune, and had estates in Wiltshire, Somerset, and Gloucestershire, besides those he had inherited in Shropshire. Longleat he bought in 1541 from Sir John Horsey, who had received a grant of it from the crown in the previous year. While Somerset was absorbed in public matters, Thynne looked after the duke's private affairs, and his conduct in this capacity brought some odium on his principal. 'There is nothing,' wrote Paget, 'his grace 