Thomas Salesbury

son and heir of Sir Hen. Salesbury Bt, was born of an ancient and gentile family of his name living at Leweni near Denbigh in Denbighshire, became a Gent. Com. of Jesus Coll. about the beginning of the Reign of K. Ch. 1. but taking no degree, he retired (after he had seen the vanities of the great city) to his patrimony; and having a natural genie to Poetry and Romance, exercised himself much in those juvenile studies, and at length became a most noted poet of his time, as it partly appears in this book following, which he wrot and published.

The history of Joseph. Lond. 163 ... printed in English verse in 13 chapters, and all contained in about 16 sheets in quarto Daniel Cudmore Gent. did also exercise his mu [•] e on the same subject some years after: And in prose, that history is written by several persons in divers languages especially in that of the French, which being translated into English by Sir Will. Lower a Cornish Knight, was printed at London 1655, oct. This Sir William, who was a noted poet, was son of John Lower of Tremere, a younger son of Sir Will. Lower of St. Winnow, in Cornwal, and died at London about the beginning of the year 1662, but where buried, unless in the parish Church of S. Clements Danes within the Liberty of Westminster, where his Uncle Tho. Lower Esq (to whom he was heir) was buried 21 of Mar. 1660, after he had laid dead since the 5 of Feb. going before, I know not. What other things our Author Salesbury hath written and published, I cannot tell, nor any thing else of him, only that he, as formerly a member of Jesus Coll. was among several persons of quality, actually created Doctor of the Civil Law of this University in the year 1642, he being then a Baronet, and that departing this mortal life in the summer time (before the month of Aug.) in sixteen hundred forty and three,1643. (at which time he left behind him a widdow named Hester) was, as I suppose, buried in the Vault in Whitchurch joyning to Leweni before mentioned, near to the body of his Father Sir Henry, who died 2 Aug. 1632. The reader is to know, that there hath been one Thom. Salusbury, who translated into English The learned man defended and reformed, &c. Lond. 1660. oct. written originally in the Italian tongue by Dan. Bartolus a learned Jesuit; as also Mathematical Collections, from Gal. Galilaei, &c. but his sirname differing in one letter from Salesbury, he must not be taken to be the same with Sir Thomas before mention’d, who was in time before him, and an active man in the Kings Cause in the beginning of the Rebellion 1642, for which, tho he died soon after, his Family notwithstanding suffer’d for it.