ABSTRACT
Edmund Bolton (1575-1633) studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and the Inner Temple. He is best known as an antiquarian, but as a poet made some show as a contributor to Englands Helicon. Against the judgment printed below we must set that in Section 1 of Addresse the Fourth of the Hypercritica as preserved in Bodleian Rawlinson MS. Misc. I, p. 13: among a list of writers commended by Bolton for their use of English is 'Edmund Spencer (the most learned Poet of our Nation,) very little for the vse of history'.
