TO-DAY IN HISTORY
APRIL 18. Born: Sir Francis Baring, baronet, merchant, 1740; George H. Lewes, writer, London, 1817. Died: John Leland, English antiquary, London, 1552; John Fox, author, London, 1587; Robert Parsons, Jesuit controversialist, Rome, 1610; Sir Symonds D’Ewes, historian, 1650; George Lord Jeffreys, Chancellor of England, Tower of London, 1689; Alexandre Lainez, French poet. 1710; Charles Pratt, Earl Camden, Chancellor of England, 1794; Dr Erasmus Darwin, poet, Breadsall, 1S02; John Abernethy, surgeon, 1831.
LORD CHANCELLOR JEFFREYS
As even Nero had some one to strew flowers over his grave, so there was a bard who found the notorious Jeffreys worthy of a gratulatory ode on his acceding to the Chief Justiceship. It appears in a broadside, dated October 23, 1683, and is wholly composed of panegyric. The circumstances become the more remarkable as the effusion Is in Latin verse arguing that the man was of good education.
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Southland Times, Issue 20662, 18 April 1929, Page 6
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