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ROWLANDS, RICHARD (fl. 1560–1620)

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ROWLANDS, See also:RICHARD (fl. 1560–1620) , Anglo-Dutch See also:antiquary, whose real name was Verstegen, was the son of a See also:cooper whose See also:father, See also:Theodore See also:Roland Verstegen, a Dutch emigrant, came to See also:England about 1500. Under the name of Rowlands, Richard went to See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, in 1565, where he studied See also:early See also:English See also:history and the Anglo-Saxon See also:language. Leaving the university without a degree, he published in 1576 a See also:work of antiquarian See also:research, translated from the See also:German, entitled The See also:Post of the See also:World, describing the See also:great cities of See also:Europe; and soon afterwards he moved to See also:Antwerp, where he resumed the name of Verstegen, and set up in business as a printer and engraver. In 1587 he went to See also:Paris, and in 1595 to See also:Spain, where he studied in the See also:college at See also:Seville, after-wards returning to Antwerp, where he lived so far as is known until his See also:death, the date of which, though certainly later than 162o, is unknown. Rowlands was a zealous See also:Roman See also:Catholic, and in 1587 he published at Antwerp Theatrum Crudelitatum haereticorum, in which he criticized the treatment of the Roman Catholics in England under See also:Elizabeth so freely that when a See also:French See also:translation of the See also:book appeared in the following See also:year he was thrown into See also:prison at the instance of the English See also:ambassador in Paris. Many of his writings were published in the name of Verstegen. His See also:works included A See also:Dialogue on Dying Well (1603), a translation from the See also:Italian; Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities concerning the English Nation, dedicated to See also:James I. (1605); Neder Dvytsche Epigrammen (1617); Sundry Successive See also:Regal Governments in England (162o); Spiegel der Nederlandsche Elenden (1621). The verses on the defeat of the Irish rebels under See also:Tyrone, entitled England's Joy, by R. R. (16oi), is doubtfully attributed to him.

Richard Verstegan, author of Nederlantische Antiquiteyten (See also:

Brussels, 1646), is probably another See also:person, possibly Rowlands's son. See See also:Anthony a See also:Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, edited by P. See also:Bliss (4 vols., See also:London, 1813–20) ; J. W. See also:Burgon, See also:Life and Times of See also:Sir T. See also:Gresham (2 vols., London, 1839) ; W. C. See also:Hazlitt, Collections and Notes (London, 1882 and 1887).

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