Melancholike Humours, in Verses of Diverse Natures by Nicholas Breton

He speaketh the Italian well.' No university document supports the statement that Breton was educated at Oriel College, but in 'The Toyes of an Idle Head,' the appendix to his first published book, 'A Floorish vpon Fancie,' he refers to himself as 'a yong gentleman who. Brytten, once of Oriel Colledge, w ch made wyts will. 1008, records under date 14 March 1582 that while on the continent, apparently at Antwerp, he met 'Mr. Richard Madox, chaplain to a naval expedition in 1582, whose unpublished diary is in Sloane MS. From his 'Floorish vpon Fancie' we know that in 1577 Breton was settled in London and had lodgings in Holborn. 1577, and was thus for more than nine years Nicholas Breton's stepfather.įrom the fact that Breton was a boy in 1559, the year of his father's death, the date of his birth may be conjecturally placed in 1545, but no sure information is at present accessible. William Breton left much to his wife on the condition that she should remain unmarried, but before 1568 she had become the wife of George Gascoigne, the poet, who died 7 Oct. This property was to be applied by the child's mother to his 'mayntenaunce and fynding' until he was twenty-four years old, when he was to enter into full possession. 1558-9, while his sons were still boys, and left by will to Nicholas the manor of Burgh-in-the-Marsh, near Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, forty pounds in money, 'one salt, all gilte, w t a cover … vj silver spones, and the gilte bedsted and bedd that I lye in at London,' with all its furniture (will printed in Dr. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of John Bacon, and by her he had two sons, Richard and Nicholas, and three daughters, Thamar, Anne, and Mary. Giles Without Cripplegate, and he owned tenements in other parts of London, besides land in Essex and Lincolnshire. His 'capitall mansion house' was in Red Cross Street, in the parish of St.

His father, also William Breton, was a younger son, came to London and amassed a fortune in trade. His grandfather, William Breton of Colchester, died in 1499, and was buried there in the monastery of St. BRETON, NICHOLAS (1545?–1626?), poet, was descended from an ancient family originally settled at Layer-Breton, Essex.

Melancholike Humours, in Verses of Diverse Natures by Nicholas Breton