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become a retrograde crab, and yet would gladly be at home with 
that that yet resteth to pay my debts, and live the rest of my life 
perhaps contentedly enough.” About the end of this year he was 
allowed to return. 
I learn from the State Papers that he was a suitor for a grant of 
mines in Ireland on July 18th, 1565. Whether he was successful 
or not is not recorded. He died at the house which I have 
mentioned on the 14th October, 1565, and was buried in St. Paul’s 
Cathedral. Dr. Walter Haddon, Master of Requests to Queen 
Elizabeth, wrote his epitaph in Latin, which has been thus trans- 
lated :— 
Nature and Art in Chaloner combin’d, 
And for his Country form’d the Patriot’s mind. 
With praise deserv’d his public posts he fill’d, 
And equal fame his learned labours yield. 
While yet he liv’d he liv’d his country’s pride, 
And first his country injur’d when he died. 
His friend, Sir William Cecil, was his executor, as he also was 
of Grindal. He was chief mourner at his funeral, and wrote some 
highly eulogistic Latin verses to his memory, in which he observes 
that “the most lively imagination, the most solid judgment, the 
quickest parts, and the most unblemish’d probity, which are 
commonly the lot of different men, and when so dispersed 
frequently create great characters, were—which very rarely happens 
—all united in Sir Thomas Chaloner, justly therefore reputed one 
of the greatest men of his time.” I am not aware that he had any 
enemies ; he was the friend of all his good and great contempo- 
raries, and, if the axiom, “ Noscitur a sociis” be true, he needs no 
higher praise. 
His works seem to deserve some little notice at our hands, and 
it is almost touching to find that the first publication of so learned 
aman was, “A little Dictionary for Children ;” his second was, 
“The Office of Servants ;” his next was a translation of “The 
Praise of Folly,” by his friend Erasmus. His more learned works 
were published in 1579, after his death, at the instigation of Cecil; 
and it may surprise some to learn that the translation of the title 
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