Arthur Brett

was descended of a gentile family, but where born, unless in the City of Westminster I know not: In 1653 he was elected a Student of Ch. Ch. from Westm. School, and afterwards taking the degrees in Arts, became one of the Terrae filii in the Act celebrated in S. Maries Church 1661, (Rob. Field of Trin. Coll. being the other) at which time he shew’d himself sufficiently ridiculous. This person who was a great pretender to poetry, wrot and published,

Poem on the restauration of K. Ch. 2. Lond. 1660. qu.

Threnodia. On the death of Henry Duke of Glocester. Oxon. 1660. in 2. sh. and an half in qu.

Patientia Victrix: or, the book of Job in lyrick vers. Lond. 1661. oct. What other things he hath published I cannot tell: Sure I am that he taking holy orders afterwards, had some mean employment bestowed on him, but grew so poor, being, as I conceive, somewhat crazed, that he desired the almes of Gentlemen, especially of Oxford Scholars whom he accidentally met with in London: In which condition I saw him there in 1675. He died in his mothers house in the Strand near London about sixteen hundred seventy and seven, but where his lean and macerated carkass was buried (unless in the yard of S. Clements Ch. without Temple-bar) I know not.1677.