RICHARD

See also:

• KNOLLES (or KNOLLES), SIR ROBERT (c. 1325-1407)
• RICHARD KNOLLES (c. 1545-1610)

KNOLLES (c. 1545-1610)  , English historian, was a native of Northamptonshire, and was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford . He became a fellow of his college, and at some date subsequent to 1571 left Oxford to become master of a school at Sandwich, Kent, where he died in 161o . In 1603 Knolles published his Generall Historie of the Turkes, of which several editions subsequently appeared, among them a good one edited by Sir Paul Rycaut (1700), who brought the history down to 1699 . It was dedicated to King James I., and Knolles availed himself largely of Jean Jacques Boissard's Vitae et hones Sultanorum Turcicorum (Frankfort, 1596) . Although now entirely superseded, it has considerable merits as regards style and arrangement . Knolles published a translation of J . Bodin's De Republica in 1606, but the Grammatica Latina, Graeca et Hebraica, attributed to him by Anthony Wood and others, is the work of the Rev . Hanserd Knollys (c . 1599-1691), a Baptist minister . See the Athenaeum, August 6, 1881 .