Bradshaw, Henry
Bradshaw, Henry
English Benedictine and poet, b. in the City of Chester, England, date unknown; d. 1513. From very early years his life was spent at St. Werburgh’s monastery, with the exception of a period during which he was pursuing a course in theology at Gloucester College, Oxford. His writing are “De Antiquitate et magnificentiâ Urbis Cestriæ”, and “Chronicon and a Life of St. Werburgh”. This second work, in English verse, includes the “Foundation of the City of Chester” and the “Chronicle of the Kings”; it fixes the year of Bradshaw’s death by a poem addressed to him, was printed by Pinson in 1521, and re-edited by E. Hawkins for the Chetham Society, 1848. The poet followed mainly a Latin work then in the library of St. Werburgh, called “The True or Third Passionary”, by an author whose name was unknown to Bradshaw. His work, written not for the learned, but for the ruder classes, has been variously appraised by critics.
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HUNT in Dict. Nat. Biog.; WARTON, History of English Poetry
J. VINCENT CROWNE Transcribed by Theodore L.P. Rego
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IICopyright © 1907 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightImprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Bradshaw, Henry
an English Benedictine of the monastery of St. Werburga, in Cheshire, studied at Gloucester (now Worcester) College, and died in 1513. He composed a Chronicle; a Life of St. Werburga; and a work on the city of Chester. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.