Edward Ferrers

, a most ingenious Man of his time, was of the same Family with those of Baldesley-Clenton in Warwickshire, but the name of the particular place where he was born, or the name of the House in Oxon, wherein educated, I cannot justly say. Sure it is that he continued there several years, being then in much esteem for his Poetry, and about the time that he left the Univ. wrot,

Several Tragedies.

Com. or Interludes.

All which being written with much skill, and magnificence in his meeter, gave the King so much good recreation, (as the Author (†)(†) See more in Theat. Poetarum, written by Edw. Phillips, Pr. at Lond. 1675. p. 211. of the Art of English Poesie saith) as he had thereby many good rewards, and adds farther, that for such things, as he hath seen, of his writing, and of the writing of Tho. Sackvile, they deserve the price, &c. Our Author Ferrers hath also written these two Poems following, viz.

The fall of Rob. Tresilian Cheif Justice of England,—and,

The unlawful murder of Tho. of Woodstok Duke of Glocester—with several other things which I have not yet seen, and was Author, as one (*)(*) Franc. M [•] res, in the second part of Wits Commonwealth. or more writers say, of a Book intit. A mirroure for Magistrates. Lond. 1559, Published by Will. Baldwin, whom I shall anon mention. In which Mirrour are involved the two Poems before-mentioned, and other things of the composition of the said E. Ferrers, Cler. 1564. who was in great renown in Fifteen hundred sixty and four, being, if I mistake not, the same Edw. Ferrers of Baldesley Clinton, who died and was buried there, in that year, leaving behind him a Son named Henry, whom I shall mention under the Year 1633.