Francis Beaumont: Dramatist: A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean,; And of His Association with John Fletcher — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
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the admiration begotten of long intimacy,--"the smoothnesse of his
mind," "his wisdome and his happy parts," and "his sweet behaviour and
discourse."
Or,--and how could any young Oxonian fail of it?--they started from
Broadgates, down the High, crossed Magdalen Bridge, where the boats were
lazily oaring below them, and set out for the climb to Rose Hill; then
down by sleepy ways to Littlemore, and to Sandford; then up the two long
sharp ascents to Nuneham,--where now, in the fine old manor house, hangs
Frank's own portrait in oils,--one of the two contemporary likenesses of
him that exist to-day.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Leland's _Itinerary_, Ed. L. T. Smith, Vol. I, 18-19.
[2] Leland's _Itinerary_, Ed. L. T. Smith, Vol. IV, 126.
[3] Collins, _Peerage of England_, IX, 460.
[4] J. Nichols, _Collections toward the History of Leicestershire_
(_Biblioth. Topogr. Brit._, VII, 534). See, below, Appendix, A.
[5] _Letters relating to the Suppression of the Monasteries_, pp.
251-252, Camden Society, 1843. The editor, Thos. Wright, describes the
petitioner as of Thringston, Co. Leicester.
[6] J. M. Rigg, _Dict. Nat. Biog._ art., _John Beaumont_; and
Nichols's _History of Leicestershire_, III, ii, 651, _et seq._
[7] Collins, _Peerage_, VI, 648, _et seq._; H. N. Bell, _The
Huntingdon Peerage_, 1821. See also, below, Appendix, Table B.
[8] _Calendar of State Papers_ (_Domestic_), 1595, p. 154.
[9] Challoner, _Missionary Priests_, I, 347.
[10] For the preceding details, and some of those which follow, see
the respective articles in the _Dictionary of National Biography_;
Dyce's _Works of Beaumont and Fletcher_, Vol. I, _Biographical
Memoir_; Grosart, _Sir John Beaumont's Poems_, and the sources as
indicated. See also, below, Appendix, Table C.
[11] See Shaw's _Knights of England_; Collins, _Peerage_; and articles
in _D. N. B._ under names.
[12] Dyce says that the Judge was knighted; so Rigg (_D. N. B._) and
others. The _Inner Temple Records_ speak of him thirty times, but only
once, Nov. 5, 1581, as "Sir," though others in memoranda running to
1601 which mention him are given the title. In the codicil to his will
he is plain "Mr. Beaumont"; and he is not included in Shaw's _Knights
of England_.
[13] _For a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton._
[14] _Works of B. and F._, XVI.
CHAPTER III
AT THE INNS OF COURT AND CHANCERY; THE POEMS ASSIGNED TO THESE EARLIER
YEARS.