there may be a special reference to the well-known coronation of Petrarch with the laurel crown; and both Chaucer and Gower are addressed by King James as "Superlative as poetes laureate In rhetorique and eloquence ornate." Jonson was the first poet who was appointed to the office, so far as our proofs go, by letters patent. The theory, founded on the annuity of £50 granted to Spenser in 1591, that the great Court-poet of Elizabeth's age was the first regularly appointed Laureate, has no certain foundation; nor was the office held after 1599 by Samuel Daniel identical with the Laureateship. At Jonson's appointment the annual salary was fixed at 100 marks, which, on Ben's well-known rhyming petition to "the best of monarchs, masters, men, King Charles," was raised to the same number of pounds sterling, and to this was added at the same time the annual gift of a tierce of Ben's favourite wine, Canary. With this office Jonson held the post, which he afterwards lost, of city chronologer, with an annual salary of 100 nobles; and Dryden added 100 to his income as Historiographer Royal. The presentation of the butt of wine, as all readers of Macaulay know, was discontinued by James II, but must have been resumed afterwards. We find it commuted for £27 in Pye's laureateship. In the time of the Georges the Laureate was expected to present an annual ode to the King on the royal birthday. Cowper, in his "Table Talk," refers to this as-- "His quit-rent ode, his peppercorn of praise." Dryden did not receive his letters patent until the year 1670, but was paid his salary for the two preceding years. For Eusden, see Dunciad,' i. 63; and for Cibber, see same work passim. "Better to err with Pope than shine with Pye"-Byron in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Beaconsfield, Benjamin, Earl of, Brontë, Charlotte, 797-800 Joseph, 262 -, Emily Jane, 800 , Arthur. See Broke. Becket, Thomas, Archbishop of Brougham, Henry Peter, Lord, Browne, Edward, 384 Berkeley, George, Bishop of Gloyne, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 774-6 Campbell, George, 503 Canning, George, 632 -, Thomas, 254-5 Carleton, William, 675 Carroll, Lewis. See Dodgson, C.L. Carte, Thomas, 434 Constable, Henry, 110 Cooper, Thomas, Bishop of Win- Corbet, Richard, Bishop of Norwich, 262 Cork and Orrery, Roger, Earl of, Cornwall, Barry. See Procter, B. W. Coryat, Thomas, 263 Cosin, John, Bishop of Durham, Cotton, Charles, 262 -, Nathaniel, 543-4 See Newcastle, Coverdale, Miles, Bishop of Exeter, Chalmers, Thomas, 741 Chamberlayne, William, 262 Chapone, Hester, 501 Charleton, Walter, 337 Crowne, John, 359 Chesterfield, Philip Dormer, Earl Cudworth, Ralph, 382 Chatterton, Thomas, 522-4 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 38-56 Cheke, Sir John, 73 of, 483-4 Chettle, Henry, 247-8 Chillingworth, William, 265 Cumberland, Richard, Bishop of Peterborough, 382 Cunningham, Allan, 633 Richard, 538 Cynewulf, 21 D. Church, Richard William, 735-6 Churchill, Charles, 543 Churchyard, Thomas, 113-4 Cibber, Colley, 361 Clarendon, Edward, Earl of, 328-31 Clifford, William Kingdon, 747 Clough, Arthur Hugh, 786-7 Colet, John, 69 Charles Allston, 817 William, 515-7 Colman, George, senior, 537-8 George, junior, 538 Columbanus, St., 24 Congreve, William, 348-53 Conington, John, 753 Duns Scotus, 28-9 Felltham, Owen, 275 Ferguson, Adam, 505 Ferrier, James Frederick, 747 Filmer, Sir Robert, 366 Countess of. Finlay, George, 718 See Winchilsea, Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester and Cardinal, 88 Flavel, John, 382 Dunstan, St., Archbishop of Canter- Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun, 384 Dyer, Sir Edward, 109 bury, 22 John, 541 E. Eadmer, 29 Giles, senior, 110 Giles, junior, 105-6 -, John, 228-33 Phineas, 105-6 Florence of Worcester, 29 Florio, John, 139 Foote, Samuel, 537 Earle, John, Bishop of Sarum, 274-5 Ford, John, 243-4 Fordun, John of, 59 Forster, John, 743 Fortescue, Sir John, 66 Fox, George, 273, Foster, John, 749 Eusden, Laurence, 391 Evans, Marian, 802-7 Evelyn, John, 332-3 F. Faber, Frederick William, 791 Falconer, William, 526 Gaimar, Geoffrey, 32 Garrick, David, 537 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 800-2 Gauden, John, Bishop of Worcester, 274 |