[1] [2] [3] Furthermore Richard Tracie of Todington in Glocestershire, an esquier, and verie well learned, sonne to William Tracie; doctor Ioseph an excel|lent preacher; George Ioie a Bedfordshire man, that wrote diuerse treatises concerning diuinitie, and died either in the last yeare of king Edward, or in the beginning of quéene Maries reigne, as appea|reth by master Bale; Alexander Barkleie a Scot, a notable poet, and a good rhetorician, departed this life in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and two; William Hugh a Yorkeshireman, wrote, be|sides other things, a notable treatise called the trou|bled mans medicine, he deceassed by the bursting of a veine, in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred fortie and nine; Thomas Sternehold borne in South|hampton, turned into English méeter seuen & thir|tie psalmes chosen foorth of Dauids psalter. Of stran|gers that liued and died here in this kings daies, ex|cellentlie learned, and renowmed for such treatises as they published to the world, Martine Bucer and Paulus Fagius are most famous. To end now with this part of the booke concerning king Ed|ward, I haue thought good to set downe Ierom Car|dans verses, written as an epitaph of him (and recor|ded by master Fox in his historie) as here followeth:

Flete nefas magnum, sed toto flebilis orbe

Mortales, vester corruit omnis honor.Carmen [...] in obitum regi [...] Ed [...]ardi

Nam regum decus, & iuuenum flos, spésque bonorum,

Deliciae secli, & gloria gentis erat.

Dignus Apollineis lachrymis, doctaeque Minerua:

Flosculus heu miserè concidit ante diem.

Te cumulo dabimus musa, supremáque flentes

Munera, Melpomene tristia fata canet.

Thus farre the good and vertuous yoong prince Edward the sixt, successor to Henrie the eight of most famous memorie.