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

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