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COLLE, RAFFAELLINO DAL. 



COLLINGWOOD, ADMIRAL LORD. 



the name of Hans Lend.-nstreich, and Gtodel and Loffler, two other 

 Tyrolese sculptors and fouuJers. Colin executed also the two monu- 

 ments of his .patron the Archduke Ferdinand of the Tyrol aud his 

 first wife Philippa, in a chapel in the Hof kirche at Innsbruck : the 

 latter bears the date of 1581. They are both extremely costly and 

 elaborate works. There are other works by Colin in Innsbruck and 

 its vicinity ; some in wood, and of very minute and excellent work- 

 manship. He was court sculptor to the Emperor Ferdinand I. and 

 to his son the Archduke Ferdinand of the Tyrol, and died at Innsbruck 

 in 1612. 



(Von Lemmen, Tiroluchet Kiimterlexikon.) 



COLLE, RAFFAELLINO DAL, a celebrated Italian painter, born 

 at Colle, near Citta San Sepolcro, but in what year is not known. He 

 is generally considered as one of the scholars and assistants of Raffaelle 

 in the Farnesina and in the Vatican ; but he was certainly, according to 

 Vasari, the assistant of Giulio Romano in Rome, and probably at Mantua, 

 and also of Vasari himself at Florence in 1536, upon the occasion of the 

 visit of Charles V., when Vasari had the direction of the decorations 

 ordered by the authorities in honour of the emperor's visit. As 

 Vasari did not write the life of Raffaellino, little is known about him. 

 He appears to have been chiefly employed in the neighbourhood of 

 Citta San Sepolcro, at Urbino, Perugia, Pesaro, Gubbio, Cagli, and 

 Citta di Castello, in which places he executed several fine altarpieces, 

 which still exist, and exhibit him as one of the best disciples of the 

 Roman school. Notwithstanding his own reputation, he did not 

 disdain to enter into the service of Vasari in 1536, when he made, 

 from the designs of Bronzino, cartoons for the tapestries of Cosmo I. 

 Another more striking instance of humility, or good-fellowship, is 

 recorded of him, which happened at San Sepolcro : II Rosso arrived 

 in the city at a time when Raffaellino was about to execute a work 

 which he had undertaken to paint, and he surrendered his commission 

 to II Rosso as a mark of esteem for his ability. The date of his death 

 is not known, (l.anzi, Storia PMorica, <tc.) 



COLLIER, JEREMY, was born on the 23rd of September 1650, at 

 Stow Qui, in Cambridgeshire. He was educated under his father, 

 who was master of the free school of Ipswich. In 1669 he was 

 admitted of Cains College, Cambridge, and in 1676 took the degree of 

 M.A. He resided some time as chaplain with the countess dowager 

 of Dorset, and then received the small rectory of Ampton, in Suffolk. 

 In 1685 he resigned this living and came to London, when he was 

 soon appointed lecturer of Gray's Inn. At the revolution of 1688 he 

 put himself in opposition to the government and the church as 

 established under William III., and engaged in a hot controversy with 

 Burnet, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury. One of his publications, ' The 

 Desertion Discussed, in a Letter to a Country Gentleman,' (4to, 16S8) 

 gave great offence to the new government, and Collier was sent a close 

 prisoner to Newgate, where he remained some months, and whence 

 lie was, at last, discharged without ever being brought to trial. This 

 persecution did not cool his zeal : during the four following years he 

 published a number of works, which were all of a political and con- 

 troversial nature. Towards the end of 1692 Collier, with Newton, 

 another non-juring clergyman, was arrested at a solitary place on the 

 Kentish coast, whither he was supposed to have gone for the purpose 

 of communicating with the partisans of the house of Stuart on the 

 other side of the water. After a short examination before the Earl of 

 Nottingham, secretary of state, he was committed to the Gate-house. 

 There was no evidence against him ; but in consequence of his 

 questioning the legality of the courts, and refusing bail, he suffered a 

 short imprisonment in the King's Bench. 



In the course of 1692 and 1 693 he published six more works, all 

 hostile to government. In 1696 he was prosecuted for giving church 

 absolution to Sir John Friend and Sir William Perkins, who were con- 

 victed of being accessaries in the plot to assassinate King William. 

 Collier absconded and was outlawed. The outlawry was never re- 

 voked, but the energetic divine, after the first rigour was abated, 

 seems to have cared little for it. He lived in London or its suburbs till 

 his death, supporting himself by his literary labours. In the course 

 of the very jear in which he was outlawed he put forth five political 

 works. The next year he published the first volume of his ' Essays 

 upon several Moral Subjects,' adding a second volume in 1705, and a 

 third in 1709. These essays were much admired at the time. It was 

 however in 1698 that he produced the work by which he is now best 

 known : ' A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the 

 English Stage, together with the Sense of Antiquity upon this Argu- 

 ment,' 1 vol. 8vo. The ' Short View ' was almost as severe upon theatres 

 and theatrical writers as Prynne's famous ' Histrio-Mastix,' published 

 about 65 years before. It led to a controversy with Congreve and 

 Vaubrugh, in which many sheets were printed on both sides, many 

 bard names exchanged, and in which Collier, to whom contest was a 

 delight, is thought to have had the better of his adversaries. After 

 three other defences of his ' View,' he published, in 1703, ' Mr. Collier's 

 Dissuasive from the Play-house, in a Letter to a Person of Quality, 

 occasioned by the late calamity of the Tempest.' This literary 

 combat lasted ten whole years ; but Collier lived to see the English 

 stage become much more decent than it bad been an improvement 

 to which he had doubtlessly contributed. 



Between the years 1701 and 1721 he translated and published 

 Moreri's great 'Historical Dictionary,' and wrote and published 'The 



Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain," in two huge folio volumes. 

 The history was attacked by Bishop Burnet and others, to whom 

 Collier replied with his usual vigour. He was the author of a few 

 other religious and controversial papers. He died on the 26th of 

 April 1726, in the 76th year of his age, aud wa? buried in the church- 

 yard of St. Pancras, London. 



* COLLIER, J. PAYNE, was born in London in 1789. The chief 

 labours of Mr. Collier's literary life will be associated with Shakespeare 

 aud our early dramatic literature. In 1820, when he was " of the 

 Middle Temple," he published ' The Poetical Decameron ; or Ten 

 Conversations on English Poets and Poetry, particularly of the Reigns 

 of Elizabeth and James I.' In these two volumes he displays much 

 bibliographical research, which, probably, would have found more 

 acceptance and been really more amusing if produced in a less artificial 

 form than that of dialogue. In 1825 he issued an allegorical poem 

 entitled ' The Poet's Pilgrimage.' A. new edition of Dodsley's Old 

 Plays was undertaken by him, six additional plays being added, and a 

 supplementary volume contained five others; these were issued in 13 

 vols. 8vo, in 1825-27. In 1831 appeared 'The History of English 

 Dramatic Poetry in the Time of Shakespeare, aud Annals of the Stage 

 to the Restoration.' This work, in three volumes, contains a mass of 

 information, chiefly collected from original sources, and is indis- 

 pensable to the student of our dramatic literature. Three small 

 volumes, of which a very limited number of each was printed, 

 appeared in 1835, 1836, and 1839, entitled 'New Facts regarding 

 the Life of Shakespeare ;' ' New Facts regarding the Works of Shake- 

 speare ;' and ' Further Particulars regarding Shakespeare and his 

 Works.' In these little books some curious matters, previously 

 unpublished, first appeared; and all subsequent biographers of the 

 poet have acknowledged their value. In 1844 Mr. Collier completed, 

 in eight volumes, his edition of the Works of Shakespeare, "founded 

 upon an entirely new collation of the old editions." Without embody- 

 ing any elaborate criticism, or dealing much in conjectural emendations, 

 this edition will always be valuable for its careful exhibition of the 

 various old readings. Mr. Collier was one of the most active and 

 zealous members of the ' Shakespeare Society.' Among the works of 

 that society there are none more useful and curious than those which 

 he wrote or edited. Amongst these are ' Memoirs of Edward Alleyn,' 

 1841 ; ' The Diary of Philip Henslowe,' 1845 ; ' Memoirs of the Prin- 

 cipal Actors in Shakespeare's Plays," 1846; 'Extracts from the Regis- 

 ters of the Stationers' Company,' from 1557 to 1580, in 2 vols. pub- 

 lished in 1848-49. Mr. Collier also published 'Shakespeare's Library,' 

 being a collection of the romances, &c., used as the foundation of his 

 dramas. In 1852 appeared ' Notes and Emendations to the Text of 

 Shakespeare's Plays, from early Manuscript Corrections in a Copy 

 of the folio of 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier ;' and in 1853 

 Mr. Collier produced a new edition of the plays of Shakespeare, " the 

 text regulated by the old copies, and by the recently discovered folio 

 of 1632." This edition, in one large volume, contains no note to 

 explain what part of the text is from " the recently discovered folio 

 of 1632." The discovery of this folio produced a considerable sen- 

 sation, not only in this country, but in America and Germany ; 

 and much controversy has arisen on the merits of the corrections. 

 This is not the place to offer an opinion of the value in general of 

 these emendations, nor even as to the date at which the " early 

 manuscript corrections " were written on the margin of the folio of 

 1632. Mr. Collier himself is " doubtful regarding some, and opposed to 

 others ; " but nevertheless " it is his deliberate opinion that the great 

 majority of them assert a well-founded claim to a place in every future 

 reprint of Shakespeare's dramatic works." One thing however we may 

 venture to say that these emendations rest upon no more absolute 

 authority than those of Theobald or any other early or late commenta- 

 tor. A vast number of them are corrections of typographical errors, 

 long since corrected, as a matter of course, in all reprints. Those 

 which are conjectural emendations must be subjected to the usual test 

 of individual appreciation of the meaning of the author, and of the 

 forms of expression which sometimes constitute a portion of his excel- 

 lence, even while they involve difficulties not to be got over by a more 

 familiar rendering. But whatever may be the opinion of the value of 

 these Manuscript Corrections, all must agree that Mr. Collier has acted 

 with the most scrupulous good faith in their publication. 



Mr. Collier married in 1816 ; he is a Vice-President of the Society of 

 Antiquaries, and he was Secretary to the Royal Commission appointed 

 to inquire into the management of the British Museum, when he 

 proposed a plan for a catalogue of the library, which was not adopted. 

 Mr. Collier is in receipt of a pension from the crown of 1001. a-year, 

 granted to him by Sir Robert Peel, in acknowledgment of his services 

 to the literature of his country. 



. COLLINGWOOD, CUTHBERT, ADMIRAL LORD, was born on 

 the 26th of September 1750, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At the age of 

 eleven he was sent to sea as a midshipman, under the care of Captain 

 (afterwards Admiral) Brathwaite, who was the son of his mother's 

 sister, and who seems to have taken extraordinary pains in giving him 

 nautical knowledge. After serving some years with this relation, he 

 sailed with Admiral Rodclam. In 1774, during the American war, he 

 went to Boston with Admiral Graves, and in 1775 was made a lieu- 

 tenant by him, on the day of the battle of Bunker's Hill, when 

 Colliugwood, with a party of seamen, supplied the British army with 



