Nicholas Grimald

, or Grimoald received his first being in this world in Huntingdonshire, and his first Academical education in Christs Coll. in Cambridge, where taking the Degree of Bach. of Arts, went to Oxon, and was incorporated there in the said Degree in Apr. 1542. In the next month he was chosen Probationer Fellow of Merton Coll. he being then in the 23 year of his age. In 1544 he proceeded in Arts, and 1547 when the Coll. of King Hen. 8. was to be settled and replenished with Students, he was put in there as a Senior, or Theologist, (accounted then only honorary) and the rather for this reason, because he about that time, did read a publick Lecture to the Academians in the large refectory of that place. All that I have yet seen of his writings are these.

Archipropheta, Tragedia, jam recens in lucem edita. Colon. 1548. in oct.

Oratio ad Pontifices, Londini in aede Paulina, an. 1553. 17. Id. Apr. in Synodo publica. Lond. 1583. oct.

In P. V. Maronis quatuor libros Georgicorum in oratione soluta paraphrasis elegantissima, Oxonii in Aede Christi, 2. Ed. 6. confecta. Lond. 1591. oct.

Fama, com.

Troilus Chauceri, com.—with several such like things, which you may see in (r)(r) In cent. 8. nu. 99. Baleus, who also tells (s)(s) In lib. suo MS. De Scriptoribus Anglicis, inter cod. MS. Selden. in bib. Bed. p. 135. b. us elsewhere that he wrot in English a Book intit. Vox. populi; or, The Peoples complaint, &c. which was against Rectors, Vicars, Archdeacons, Deans, &c. for living remote from their Flocks, and for not performing the duty belonging to their respective offices. He hath also divers Lat. and English copies of verses, occasionally printed before, and in commendation of, other Mens works; and has also translated from Lat.Clar. 1573. into English, Cicero’s three books of duties to Marcus his Son. Lond. 1558. oct. with other things from Greek. He was in great esteem among Men in the fifteenth year of Qu. Elizabeth.