Abstract
Abstract SIR THOMAS ELYOT (1490?-1546), author and public servant (clerk of assize, 1511-28;JP for Oxford shire, 1522; clerk of the privy council, 1523-30; knighted, 1530; ambassador to Charles V, 1531-2; MP for Cambridge, 1542). A friend of Sir Thomas More, Elyot played an important role in introducing Italian humanist ideas and texts into England. . . . I could rehearse divers other poets which for matter and eloquence be very necessary, but I fear me to be too long from noble Homer, from whom as from a fountain proceeded all eloquence and learning.’ For in his books be contained, and most perfectly expressed, not only the documents* martial and discipline* of arms, but also incomparable wisdoms and instructions for politic governance of people, with the worthy commendation and laud of noble princes; wherewith the
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