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Encyclopedia Britannica



SHELTON, THOMAS (fl. 1612-1620)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 834 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHELTON, THOMAS (fl. 1612-1620) , English translator of Don Quixote. In the dedication of The delightfull history of the wittie knight, Don Quiskote (1612) he explains to his patron, Lord Howard de Walden, afterwards 2nd
Earl
  of Suffolk, that he had translated Don Quixote from Spanish into English some five or six years previously in the period of
forty
  days for a " very dear friend " who was unable to understand the
original
 . Shelton did not use the
original
  edition of Cervantes, but one published in Brussels'in 1607. On the appearance of the Brussels imprint of the second part of Don Quixote in 1616, he translated that also into English, completing his task in 162o, and printing at the same time a revised edition of the first part. His performance, has become a classic among English translations for its racy, spirited rendering of the original. Light was thrown on
Thomas
  Shelton's personal history by the researches of Mr Alexander T.
Wright
  in a
paper
  published in October 1898. Among the kinsfolk of the
earl
  of Suffolk were three persons bearing the name Thomas Shelton, and though all died before 1600 he was probably a member of the same family. It seems safe to identify him with the Thomas Shelton who wrote a sonnet prefixed to the Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (16o5) of Richard Verstegan, who was most likely the friend referred to in Shelton's preface, for there is reason to believe that both of them were then employed in a matter of doubtful loyalty, the intrigues of the Roman Catholics in England. He was acquainted with the " cries of the wild Irish," and seems to have been honestly employed in carrying letters to persons in England from Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam at Dublin Castle. But in 1599 he apparently acted as agent for Florence McCarthy to offer his service to the king of Spain, a commission for which his knowledge of Spanish especially fitted him. Soon afterwards an official precis of the facts was
drawn
  up, in which Shelton was implicated
II
by name. A second version of this document in 1617 is actually signed by him, but all reference to his share in the matter is omitted. Lady Suffolk, the wife of his patron, received yearly ix000 in
secret
  service money from the Spanish king, and Shelton may have been her accomplice. If the " many affairs
of his preface were official he would not wish to
call
  attention to his antecedents by owning friendship with Verstegan.,
The 1612 edition is available in Mr Fitzmaurice Kelly's reprint for the Tudor Translations (1892) ; that of 162o is reproduced in Macmillan's " Library of English Classics " with an introduction by Mr A. W. Pollard, who incorporates the suggestions made by Mr A. T.
Wright
  in his Thomas Skelton, Translator.


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