| Administrative History | Hieronymus Schlick, count in Bassano and lord in Weisskirchen, member of tne Bohemian noble family zu Bassano und Weisskirchen. Graduated in Divinity at Oxford in 1579
Bassano (earlier German Passaun) is in north Italy; Weisskirchen (Slovakian Holíc) is in western Slovakia |
| Description | Letter in Latin in humanist hand, announcing his arrival in London
Abstract:
Informs Beale of his arrival in London on 29 August, with letters from Duke John Casimir and the Lendgrave of Hesse to the Queen. Reminds Beale that they had met at Marburg where he has a Schoolmaster and acted as Rector and presented Beale an oration of his on the person of Christ. Asks Beale to effect his introduction at Court; if he cannot come himself, then by letters to members of the Council. Encloses an oration on the right ordering of a Christian life and resignation from the Rectorship [not present].
Notess:
(i) The writer signs as ‘Hieronymus Schlick; Comes in passaun; Dominus in Weiskirchen S. S. Theologiae studiosus’.
(ii) Schlick received the B. D. degree at Oxford on 5 May 1579 – see A. Clark ‘Register of the University of Oxford, Vol II, Part I, p. 377 (Oxf. Hist. Soc. X. 1887). He is there said to have studied at Prague and thereafter for 5 years at Leipsig, where he was twice elected to serve as Rector, and for one year at Marburg, where he was also Rector. He studied theology for several months at Oxford. (iii) A letter dated 7 February 1579 from Duke John Casimir to Walsingham regarding Schlick is calendared in C. S. P. Foreign, 1578-9, p. 419.
(iv) The letter is on a folded sheet and occupies only the first page. Beale has used the second and third pages for the drafts which number 44A and 44B.
[end of abstract and notes by James D. George]
Dated Londini 9 Septembris Anno 78
Signed Hieronymus Schlick; Comes in passaun Dominus in Weiskirch[en] S. S. Theologiae studiosus
Addressed to: Clarissimo & ornatissimo Viro, eruditione, virtute, & sapientia praestanti Domino Roberto Belo, Serenissimae Reginae Angliae à secretis, amico suo plurimum observando
Endorsed: 9 Septembris 78 Comes a Schlick
The two draft letters written by Beale on the blank pages are catalogued at MS 1009/2/44a and 44b |