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that Sir Thomas and his heirs should for ever have two scholars 
placed in the same Free Grammar School. 
The two illustrious brothers, Anthony and Francis Bacon, were 
at this time fellow-students with young Chaloner at Gray’s Inn, the 
two former being nephews to the second wife of Cecil, who was 
guardian of the latter, and we may imagine what sage communings 
and what plays of wit were indulged in over the sea coal fire, as 
the “Novum Organum” dawned on the mind of its author, and 
was discussed with one who was no dreamer, but severely practical, 
as was evidenced by his own discoveries and the favourable result 
they had on the commerce of the nation. But Chaloner did not 
neglect the imaginative powers of his mind, for Spenser in his 
“Colin Clout’s come home again,” written about 1591, after 
mentioning Shakspere thus— 
And there, though last not least, is A®tion, 
A gentler shepherd may no where: be found, 
Whose Muse, full of high thought’s invention, 
Doth, like himself, heroically sound.” 
passes on to allude to Chaloner :— 
There eke is Palin, worthy of great praise, 
Albe he envy at my rustic quill. 
And Puttenham in his “Arte of English Poesie,” actually classifies 
him with the author of “The Faery Queen,” naming him first : 
“For Eclogue and pastorall Poesie Sir Phillip Sydney and Master 
Challoner and that other Gentleman who wrote the late Shepheards 
Callender.” It is very remarkable, and deeply to be regretted, 
that of such worthy efforts of the Muse, deserving such lofty 
commendation from such eminent authorities, not a line exists ; 
they have gone the way of the lost books of ‘‘ The Faery Queen,” 
and of many other productions of that time, so fertile in efforts of 
genius and spirit of adventure. 
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Fleetwood, 
Recorder of London, a great friend of his father, and by her had 
four sons and three daughters. He was for some time under 
Henry IV. in the warres of France, and was knighted by that 
