2: Palace of Pleasure, Vol. II. p. 663.]

[Footnote 33: The translation is reprinted in the second volume.
Of the original edition there is not any notice in Herbert.]

[Footnote 34: This happened in 1552, and Moffan remained a captive
until Sept. 1555.]

[Footnote 35: Brydge's _Peerage_, Vol. IX. p. 466. Banks's
_Dormant Peerage_, Vol. II. p. 108.]

In 1560 the learned William Fulke, D.D. attacked some inconsistent,
though popular, opinions, in a small Latin tract called
"Antiprognosticon contra invtiles astrologorvm praedictiones Nostrodami,
&c." and at the back of the title are Verses,[36] by friends of the
author, the first being entitled "Gulielmi Painteri ludimagistri
Seuenochensis Tetrasticon." This has been considered by Tanner as our
author,[37] nor does there appear any reason for attempting to
controvert that opinion; and a translation of Fulke's Tract also seems
to identify our author with the master of Sevenoaks School. The title is
"Antiprognosticon, that is to saye, an Inuectiue agaynst the vayne and
unprofitable predictions of the Astrologians as Nostrodame, &c.
Translated out of Latine into Englishe. Whereunto is added by the author
a shorte Treatise in Englyshe as well for the utter subversion of that
fained arte, as well for the better understandynge of the common people,
unto whom the fyrst labour semeth not sufficient. _Habet & musca splenem
& formice sua bilis inest._ 1560" 12mo. At the back of the title is a
sonnet by Henry Bennet: followed in the next page by Painter's Address.
On the reverse of this last page is a prose address "to his louyng
frende W. F." dated "From Seuenoke XXII of Octobre," and signed "Your
familiar frende William Paynter."[38]

[Footnote 36: These verses were answered by another Kentish
writer. "In conuersium Palengenii Barnabae Gogae carmen E. Deringe
Cantiani," prefixed to _the firste sixe bokes of the mooste
christian poet Marcellus Palingenius, called the Zodiake of Life_.
Translated by Barnabe Googe, 1561. 12mo. See Cens. Lit. Vol. II.
p. 212. Where it appears that Barnaby Googe was connected with
several Kentish families. He married a Darell. His grandmother was
Lady Hales.]

[Footnote 37: _Bibliotheca_, p. 570.]

[Footnote 38: M.S. Ashmole, 302. Mr. H. Ellis has kindly
furnished me with the above, during a late visit to Oxford, and
observes that the reference to Tanner is wrongly stated,