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SIR RICHARD BAKER (1568-1644/5)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 227 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:RICHARD See also:BAKER (1568-1644/5)  , author of the See also:Chronicle of the See also:Kings of See also:England and other See also:works, was probably See also:born at Sissinghurst in See also:Kent, and entered See also:Hart See also:Hall, See also:Oxford, as a commoner in 1584 . He See also:left the university without taking a degree, studied See also:law in See also:London and afterwards travelled in See also:Europe . In 1593 he was chosen member of See also:parliament for See also:Arundel, in 1594 his university conferred upon him the degree of M.A., and in 1597 he was elected to parliament as the representative of See also:East Grinstead . In 1603 he was knighted by See also:King See also:James I., in 162o he acted as high See also:sheriff at See also:Oxfordshire where he owned some See also:property, and soon afterwards he married See also:Margaret, daughter of See also:Sir See also:George Mainwaring, of Ightfield, See also:Shropshire . By making himself responsible for some debts of his wife's See also:family, he was reduced to See also:great poverty, which led to the seizure of his Oxfordshire property in 1625 . Quite penniless, he took See also:refuge in the See also:Fleet See also:prison in 1635, and was still in confinement when he died on the 18th of See also:February 1644 (1645) . He was buried in the See also:church of St See also:Bride, Fleet See also:Street, London . During his imprisonment See also:Baker spent his See also:time mainly in See also:writing . His See also:chief See also:work is the Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the See also:Romans' See also:Government unto the See also:Death of King James (1643, and many subsequent See also:editions) . It was translated into Dutch in 1649, and was continued down to 1658 by See also:Edward See also:Phillips, a See also:nephew of See also:John See also:Milton . For many years the Chronicle was extremely popular, but owing to numerous inaccuracies its See also:historical value is very slight . Baker also wrote See also:Cato Variegates or Catoes Morall Distichs, Translated and Paraphrased by Sir See also:Richard Baker, See also:Knight (London, 1636); Meditations on the See also:Lord's See also:Prayer (1637); See also:Translation of New Epistles by Moonsieur D'See also:Balzac (1638); Apologie for Laymen's Writing in Divinity, with a See also:Short Meditation upon the Fall of See also:Lucifer 11641); Motives for Prayer upon the seaven dayes of ye weeke (1642); a translation of Malvezzi's Discourses upon See also:Cornelius See also:Tacitus (1642), and TheatrumRedivivum, or The See also:Theatre Vindicated, a reply to the Histrio-Mastix of See also:William See also:Prynne (1642) .

He also wrote Meditations upon several of the See also:

psalms of See also:David, which have been collected and edited by A . B . See also:Grosart (London, 1882) . See J . See also:Granger, See also:Biographical See also:History of England to the Revolution (London, 1804) ; Biographic Britannica, corrected by A . See also:Kippis (London, 1778-1793) .

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