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BOLTON (or BOULTON), EDMUND (1S75?-16...

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 180 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOLTON (or See also:BOULTON), See also:EDMUND (1S75?-1633?)  , See also:English historian and poet, was See also:born by his own See also:account in 1575 . He was brought up a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, and was educated at Trinity See also:Hall, See also:Cambridge, afterwards residing in See also:London at the Inner See also:Temple . In 1600 he contributed to See also:England's See also:Helicon . He was a See also:retainer of the See also:duke of See also:Buckingham, and through his See also:influence he secured a small See also:place at the See also:court of See also:James I . See also:Bolton formulated a See also:scheme for the See also:establishment of an English See also:academy, but the project See also:fell through after the See also:death of the See also:king, who had regarded it favourably . He wrote a See also:Life of King See also:Henry II. for See also:Speed's See also:Chronicle, but his Catholic sympathies betrayed themselves in his treatment of See also:Thomas See also:Becket, and a life by Dr See also:John Barcham was substituted (See also:Wood, See also:Ath . Oxon. ed . See also:Bliss, iii . 36) . The most important of his numerous See also:works are Hypercritica (1618?), a See also:short See also:critical See also:treatise valuable for its notices of contemporary authors, reprinted in See also:Joseph Haslewood's See also:Ancient Critical Essays (vol. ii., 1815); See also:Nero See also:Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved (1624), with See also:special See also:note of See also:British affairs . Bolton was still living in 1633, but the date of his death is unknown .

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