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76  Gentleman born at Abermarlis, in Caermarthenhire, in South-Wales, 1594. the Seat now of a worthy Gentleman of the Noble Name and Family of Cornwallis, he was at Sixteen ent from Hereford-School, to Jeus-College, Oxon. In the Year 1618. he was ent beyond Sea, by Sir Robert Manel; he travelled the Low Countries from Italy, &c. was employed by King James, in Negotiations in Spain; was Secretary to the Lord Scroop, when he was Preident of the North, &c. He writ and tranlated Nine and Forty Dooks: He died about the Beginning of November, 1666. and lies buried on the North Side of the Temple-Church, with this Incription over him on the Wall; Jacobus Howel, Cambro Britannus, Regius Hitoriographus, in Anglia primus; qui pot varias peregrinationes, tandem Naturæ Curum peregit, Satur Annorum, & famæ Domi, foriq; huc uq; erraticus, hic fixus, 1666. He writ One Play, called,

The Nuptials of Peleus and Thetis, a Maque and Comedy, 4 to. 1654. Acted at Paris, by the French King, Duke of York, Duke of Anjou, Henrietta Maria, Princes of Conti, with others of the Nobility there. The Author tranlated it from an Italian Comedy. The Plot is taken from Ovid’s Metamorph. Lib. 11. and Catulli Argonoutica five Epithalamium.

Dancing-Mater and Player, was a Man of uncommon Activity, liv’d in the Time of Charles and James the Second, writ one Play, intituled,

The Devil of a Wife, or, The Comical Transformation, a Farce, 4 to. 1686. Acted by their Majeties Servants, at the Queens Theatre in Doret-Garden. Taken from the Story of Mopa in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia. Thomas