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of one poem is “In Praise of Henry VIII., the most worthy King 
of England, a Paneygyrick ;” so that it appears that that monarch 
was not regarded by the eminent men of his time as the monster 
which later historians, with preconceived views, have been pleased 
to depict him. Froude, who has ventured occasionally to say a 
good word for him, is not, it appears, the first who has not been 
utterly condemnatory. Chaloner wrote nothing in favour of Queen 
Mary. 
There are three portraits of him ; one, a painting by Sir Antonio 
More, was exhibited some years ago at the Exhibition of National 
Portraits ; another forms the frontispiece to his ‘De Republica 
Anglorum ;” and a third, a small engraving by Hollar, is the 
choicest, rarest, and dearest morceau the collector of engraved 
portraits can gather into his portfolio. The current price for this 
treasure of perhaps four inches square, is about £40. 
Pass we on to the worthy son of so worthy a father, of whom 
the first record discoverable is that he was a student at Magdalen 
College, Oxford, in the year 1580, where he did not take a degree, 
having left early to travel, which he did to good purpose for some 
years. In the year 1584, we find him publishing a book on ‘‘The 
Virtue of Nitre, wherein is declared the sundry cures by the same 
effected,” which indicated a strong bent to the study of Natural 
Philosophy. On March 28th, 1586, he was a student of the law 
at Gray’s Inn, and then gave, bargained, and sold to the Keepers 
and Governors of the Free Grammar School of Saint Bees, in 
order that they might erect a school and house for the schoolmaster 
there, “all that plot of ground known and called by the name of 
St. Anthony’s Orchard, containing by estimation an acre and a 
half, adjoining unto a highway leading between the same parcel of 
ground and the churchyard of the said parish of Saint Bees. And 
also he gave and sold frank and free liberty to have and to take 
forty loads of coals at and in the coal pits of the said Thomas 
Chaloner in the parish of Saint Bees, and free liberty of access to 
the said coal pits for digging and removing the coals from time to 
time,” in consideration of which free grant, the governors coyenanted 
