Petition to the
Lord Chamberlain
by
Thomas
Farnaby
(?1575-1647, schoolmaster and classicist)
against
Jonson
for debt, 4 Dec. 1634 . The series of
petitions, 1626-37, comprises a continual ledger of entries bound together.
Eugene Giddens
[fol. 151]
Farnaby
against Iohnson.
A peticion of Mr Thomas
Farnaby
against Mr Beniamin Iohnson debt 120li Answered of course. eod. [i.e. on
this date, 4 Dec. 1634]
Bibliography
MSC 2, part 3, pp. 411
H&S, 11.585
Philip Herbert (1584-1650), fourth earl of Pembroke and first earl of Montgomery , who had succeeded to the office in August 1626.
Farnaby ran a successful school in Cripplegate, and was regarded as the foremost teacher and classical scholar of his time. He edited Juvenal, Persius, Seneca, Martial, Lucan, Ovid, Virgil, and Terence, and was commissioned by Charles I to prepare a new Latin grammar for use in schools, which was completed in 1641. Jonson wrote commendatory verses to his edition of Juvenal and Persius.