Thomas Storer

Son of John Storer a Londoner, was elected Student of Ch. Ch. 1587. or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being compleated 1594. at which time he was had in great renown for his most excellent vein in poesie, not only expressed in verses printed in several books, made occasionally by the members of the University, but for that writ in English verse intit.

The life and death of Tho. Wolsey Cardinal. Divided into 3 parts; his aspiring, triumph and death. Lond. 1599. in ten sheets in qu. Which book being perused by the learned Dr. Alberic. Gentilis, he doth occasionally make (d)(d) In lib. cu [•] tit. est. Laudes Academiae per [•] finae & Ox [•] niensis—H [•] nnon. 1625. p. 41. this mention of Wolsey and our author—Atꝫ o utinem &c. quod Wolsaeo, aedificatori magnificentissimi collegii Christi, praestitum ab ingenioso poeta est, &c. The truth is Storer obtained from the then Academians great credit for that work, (particularly from his friend Ch. Fitzgeoffry (e)(e) In Affanis, &c. Oxon. 1601. lib. 2. the poet of Broadgates hall) but more among others for his

Pastoral Aires and Madrigalls—which were afterwards remitted into a book called Englands Hol [•] con. What other things this ingenious person hath extant, I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he died in the parish of St. Michael Basinghaugh within the City of London, in November, 1604 in sixteen hundred and four, and was, as I conceive buried in the Church there. Divers copies of verses were made on his death by his acquaintance in this University and elsewhere, but are not, as I conceive, printed.