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His father was recorder of the city, and Speaker of the Irish House of Commons in 1557, 1560 and 1568. Richard was sent in 1563 to University College, Oxford, and took his degree five years later. At Oxford he became intimate with Edmund Campion. After leaving the university he studied law at Furnival's Inn and Lincoln's Inn. He contributed in 1587 to Holinshed's Chronicles "a playne and perfecte description" of Ireland, and a history of the country during the reign of Henry VIII, which were severely criticized in Barnabe Rich's New Description of Ireland (1610) as a misrepresentation of Irish affairs written from the English standpoint.

After the death of his wife, Janet Barnewall, in 1579, Stanyhurst went to the Netherlands. After his second marriage, which took place before 1585, with Helen Copley, he became active in the CatholicGeneral meaning Catholic means universal or whole''. With respect to the Christian Church, the early Christians used the term to refer to the whole undivided church. It is in that sense that all Christians today claim ownership of the term, including Prot cause. He spent some time in SpainThe Kingdom of Spain is a country located in the southwest of Europe. It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra. To the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it borders France and the tiny principality of Andorra. It inc, ostensibly practising as a physician, but his real business seems to have been to keep Philip IIPhilip II of Spain ( May 21, 1527 September 13, 1598), King of Spain (r. 1556- 1598), Naples and Sicily (r. 1554- 1558), and Portugal, Philip II, the self-proclaimed leader of the Counter-Reformation, assumed the throne in 1556 with a great deal of potent informed of the state of Catholic interest in England. After his wife's death in 1602For the Marvel comic, see 1602 (comic). Events February 14 William Shakespeare First performance of Twelfth Night on Candlemas March 20 The Dutch East India Company is established as The United East India Company by the Dutch States-General May 15 Bartolo he took holy orders, and became chaplain to the archduke Albert in the Netherlands.

He never returned to England, and died at Brussels, according to Wood. He translated into English The First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aeneis (Leiden, 1582), to give practical proof of the feasibility of Gabriel HarveyGabriel Harvey (c. 1545- 1630) was an English writer. The eldest son of a ropemaker from Saffron Walden, Essex, he matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1566, and in 1570 was elected fellow of Pembroke Hall. Here he formed a lasting friendship w's theory that classical rules of prosody could be successfully applied to English poetry. The translation is an unconscious burlesque of the original in a jargon arranged in what the writer called hexameters. Thomas Nashe in his preface to Greene's Menaphon ridiculed this performance as his

This is a parody, but not a very extravagant one, of Stanyhurst's vocabulary and metrical methods.

His son, William Stanyhurst (1602-1663), was a voluminous writer of Latin religious works, one of which, Dei immortalis in corpore mortali palientis historia, was widely popular, and was translated into many languages.

Only two copies of the original Leiden edition of Stanyhurst's translation of Virgil are known to be in existence. In this editior his orthographical cranks are preserved. A reprint in 1889 by Henry Bynneman forms the basis of J Maidment's edition (Edinburgh 1836), and of Professor E ArberEdward Arber ( December 4, 1836 1912), was an English academic and writer. Arber was born in London. From 1854 be 1878 he worked as a clerk in the Admiralty; from 1878 to 1881 he lectured in English, under Prof. Morley, at University College, London; and's reprint (1880), which contains an excellent introduction. Stanyhurst's Latin works include De rebus in Hibernia gestis (Antwerp, 1584) and a life of St Patrick (1587).