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FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1548-1611) , English author, son of Richard Fletcher, vicar of Cranbrook
Cambridge , taking his B.A. degree in 1569. He was a fellow of his college, and was made LL.D. in 1581. In 158o he had married jean Sheafe of Cranbrook
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Volga and their security from the infliction of torture. Pletcher's treatment at Moscow was later made the subject of formal complaint by Queen Elizabeth. He returned to. England , in ;589 in company with Jerome Horsey, and in 1591 he published Of the Russe Commonwealth, Or Maner of Government by the Russe Emperour (commonly called The Emperour of Moskovia) with the manners and fashions of the people of that Countrey. In this comprehensive account of Russian geography, government, law, methods of warfare, church and manners, Fletcher, who states that he began to arrange his material during the return journey, doubtless received some assistance from the longer experience of his travelling companion, who also wrote a narrative of his travels, published in Purchas his Pilgrimes (1626). The Russia Company feared that the freedom of Fletcher's criticisms would give offence to the Muscovite authorities, and accordingly damage their trade. The book was consequently suppressed, and was not reprinted in its entirety until 1856, when it was edited from a copy of the original
Fletcher was appointed " Remembrancer " to the city of London, and an extraordinary master of requests in 1596, and became treasurer of St Paul's in 1597. He contemplated a history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and in a letter to Lord Burghley he suggested that it might be well to begin with an account from the Protestant side of the marriage of Henryand Ann Boleyn, But personal difficulties prevented the execution of this plan. He had become security to the exchequer for the debts of his brother, Richard Fletcher, bishop of London, who died in 1596, and was only then saved from imprisonment by the protection of the earl
letter to Burghley from which it may be gathered that his prime offence had been an allusion to Essex's disgrace as being the work of Sir Walter Raleigh. Fletcher was employed in 1610 to negotiate with Denmark on behalf of the " Eastland Merchants," and he died next year, and was buried on the 11th of March in the parish of St Catherine Colman, LondonThe Russe Commonwealth was issued in an abridged form in Hakluyt's Principal Navigation, Voyages, &c. (vol. i. p. 473, ed. of 189&), a somewhat completer version in Purchas his Pilgrimes (pt. iii. ed. 1625), also as History of Russia in 1643 and 1657. Fletcher also wrote De literis antiquae Britanniae (ed. by Phineas Fletcher, 1633), a treatise on "The Tartars," printed in Israel Redux (ed. by S(amuel) L(ee), 1677), to prove that they were the ten lost tribes of Israel , Latin poems published in various miscellanies, and Licia, or Poetises of Love in Honour of the admirable and singular venues of his Lady, to the imitation of the best Latin Poets... where-unto is added the Rising to the Crowne of Richard the third (1593). This series of love sonnets, followed by some other poems, was published anonymously. Most critics, with the notable exception of Alexander Dyce (Beaumont and Fletcher, Works, i. p. xvs., 1843) have accepted it as the work of Dr Giles Fletcher on the evidence afforded in the first of the Piscatory Eclogues of his son Phineas, who represents his father (Thelgon), as having " raised his rime to sing of Richard's climbing."See E. A. Bond's Introduction to the Hakluyt Society's edition; also Dr A. B. Grosart's prefatory matter to Licia (Fuller Worthies Library, Miscellanies, vol. iii., 1871), and to the works (1869) of Phineas Fletcher in the same series . Fletcher's letters relative to the college dispute with the provost, Dr Roger Goad, are preserved in the Lansdowne MSS. (xxiii. art. 18 et seq.), and are translated in Grosart's edition.End of Article: FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1548-1611) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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