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Tudor & Elizabethan

William Baldwin

c. 1515–c. 1563

William Baldwin was a Tudor writer and clergyman, the original editor of A Mirror for Magistrates (first printed 1559), whose prose dialogues link its tragedies. He also wrote the prose satire Beware the Cat (composed 1553, printed 1570), often called the earliest English novel.

The legends here are those that Joseph Haslewood’s 1815 reprint assigns to him, most of them as “attributed to Baldwin”. The attributions are Haslewood’s and are not certain.

Poems (14)

  1. The Fall of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, Put to Death at York
  2. The Fall of Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cambridge, Put to Death at Southampton
  3. The Fall of Thomas Montague, Earl of Salisbury, Slain at Orleans by a Piece of Ordnance
  4. The Fall of King James the First of Scotland, Murdered by His Own Subjects
  5. The Fall of William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, Banished for Abusing His King
  6. The Fall of Jack Cade, Rebel, Punished for His Treasons
  7. The Fall of the Lord Clifford for His Strange and Abominable Cruelty
  8. The Infamous End of Lord Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester
  9. The Fall of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and His Brother John, Lord Montacute, Slain at Barnet
  10. The Fall of King Henry the Sixth, Cruelly Murdered in the Tower of London
  11. The Fall of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, Wrongfully Imprisoned and Murdered
  12. The Fall of Sir Anthony Woodville, Lord Rivers and Scales, Cruelly Murdered
  13. The Fall of Collingbourne, Cruelly Executed for Making a Foolish Rhyme
  14. Christ, my Beloved

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