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 MAURICE KYFFIN (?-1599).

A Welshman by birth, he left the service of John Dee, with whom he afterwards kept up friendly relations, on 25 Oct. 1580 (Diary, 10, 15, 48). His epistles suggest that in 1587 he was tutor to Lord Buckhurst's sons. In 1592 he was vice-treasurer in Normandy. His writings, other than the translation, are unimportant.

1588. Andria The first Comoedie of Terence, in English. A furtherance for the attainment vnto the right knowledge, & true proprietie, of the Latin Tong. And also a commodious meane of help, to such as haue forgotten Latin, for their speedy recouering of habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake the same. Carefully translated out of Latin, by Maurice Kyffin. T. E. for Thomas Woodcocke. [Epistle by Kyffin to Henry and Thomas Sackville; commendatory verses by 'W. Morgan', 'Th. Lloid', 'G. Camdenus', 'Petrus Bizarus', 'R. Cooke'; Epistle to William Sackville, dated 'London, Decemb. 3, 1587', signed 'Maurice Kyffin'; Preface to the Reader; Preface by Kyffin to all young Students of the Latin Tongue, signed 'M. K.'; Argument.]

S. R. 1596, Feb. 9. Transfer of Woodcock's copies to Paul Linley (Arber, iii. 58).

S. R. 1597, Apr. 21 (Murgetrode). 'The second Comedy of Terence called Eunuchus.' Paul Lynley (Arber, iii. 83).

S. R. 1600, June 26. Transfer of 'The first and second commedie of Terence in Inglishe' from Paul Linley to John Flasket (Arber, iii. 165).

Presumably the Andria is the 'first' comedy of the 1600 transfer, and if so the lost Eunuchus may also have been by Kyffin. The Andria is in prose; Kyffin says he had begun seven years before, nearly finished, and abandoned a version in verse.

JOHN LANCASTER (c. 1588).

A Gray's Inn lawyer, one of the devisers of dumb-shows and director for the Misfortunes of Arthur of Thomas Hughes (q.v.) in 1588.

SIR HENRY LEE (1531-1611).

[The accounts of Lee in D. N. B. and by Viscount Dillon in ''Bucks., Berks. and Oxon. Arch. Journ.'', xii (1906) 65, may be supplemented from Aubrey, ii. 30, J. H. Lea, Genealogical Notes on the Family of Lee of Quarrendon (Genealogist, n.s. viii-xiv), and F. G. Lee in ''Bucks. Records'', iii. 203, 241; iv. 189, The Lees of Quarrendon (Herald and Genealogist, iii. 113, 289, 481), and Genealogy of the Family of Lee (1884).]

Lee belonged to a family claiming a Cheshire origin, which had long been settled in Bucks. From 1441 they were constables and farmers of Quarrendon in the same county, and the manor was granted by Henry VIII to Sir Robert Lee, who was Gentleman Usher of the