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Edmund Bolton ( 1575 ?- 1633 ?), English Historian and Poet , was born by his own account in 1575. He was brought up a Roman Catholic , and was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge , afterwards residing in London at the Inner Temple . In 1600 he contributed to '' England's Helicon ''. He was a retainer of George Villiers, 1st 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 death of the king, who had regarded it favourably. He wrote a ''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 , ''Ath. Oxon.'' ed. Bliss, iii. 36). The most important of his numerous works are ''Hypercritica'' (1618?), a short critical treatise valuable for its notices of contemporary authors, reprinted in Joseph Haslewood's ''Ancient Critical Essays'' (vol. ii., 1815); ''Nero Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved'' (1624), with special note of British affairs. Bolton was still living in 1633, but the date of his death is unknown. REFERENCE
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