Henry Lord Stafford

the only Son of Edward Duke of Bucks. (attained, and executed for treason in 1521.) was one of the most accomplished Persons of his time, and tho not the inheritor of his Fathers honours, yet he was a Man of great virtue, learning, and piety. In his younger years he received his education in both the Universities, especially in that of Cambridge, to which his Father had been a benefactor; where by the care of good Tutors he attained to a considerable knowledge in the Latin tongue; and in that language he wrot several things, as ’tis said, as well in verse as prose, but such I have not yet seen. He translated into English a Book intit. De vera differentia regiae potestatis & ecclesiasticae, & quae sit ipsa veritas ac virtus utriusꝫ &c. Written by Edward Fox Bishop of Hereford. This translation was printed in oct. but when, it appears not in the Book. He also translated Erasmus his Two Epistles, wherein is declared the brainsick headiness of the Lutherans, &c. Lond. 1553. oct. and other things which I have not yet seen. This noble Lord gave way to fate (*)(*) Baleus int. Script. May. Britan. pag. 112. int. cent. 12. & 13. in Fifteen hundred fifty and eight, but where buried I cannot yet tell, nor in what County born, unless in Staffordshire, wherein he was possessor of many Lands.