Rev. Charles Fitzgeffrey

The son of a clergyman, Charles Fitzgeffrey was born in Fowey, Cornwall, attended Broadgates Hall (Pembroke College) Oxford (B.A. 1597, M.A. 1600) and was Rector of St. Dominick, Cornwall (1603-37). He was an acquaintance of John Davies of Hereford and Francis Rous (who has a commendatory poem in Fitzgeffrey's Drake). Commendatory verses by Fitzgeffrey appears in Davies of Hereford's Microcosmos (1603), Sylvester's Du Bartas (1605) and William Vaughan's Golden Grove (1608).

TEXT RECORDS:

1596Sir Francis Drake.
1601Ad Edmundum Spenserum.
1601Ad Samuelum Danielum.
1601De Bromo Oenopola.
1601De eodum [Spenser.]
1601Edmondo Spencero.
1601In eiusdem Tumulum Chaucere vincinum Westmonast.

PUBLICATIONS:

Sir Francis Drake. 1596.
Caroli Fitzgeofridi affaniae: sive epigrammatum libri tres, Cenotaphia. 1601.
Death's sermon unto the living. 1620.
Elisha his lamentation for his owne ... the subject of a sermon. 1622.
The curse of corne-hoarders: with the blessing of seasonable selling. 1631.
The blessed birthday celebrated. 1634.
Compassion towards captives. 1637.
God's blessing upon the providers of corn. 1648.
Poems, ed. A. B. Grosart. 1881.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Pembroke College Oxford
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts

clergyman
poet

Thomas Campion
John Davies of Hereford
Henry Fitzgeffrey
Michael Drayton
Francis Rous the Elder
Joshua Sylvester
Sir William Vaughan

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL.

Edward Phillips, Theatrum Poetarum (1675); Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1690-91; 1721); Samuel Egerton Brydges, Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum (1800); Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia Poetica (1802) 205-06; Thomas Park, "The Blessed Birth-Day" Censura Literaria 6 (1806) 234-36; Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17); Thomas Park, in British Bibliographer 2 (1812) 116-21; Bliss, Athenae Oxonienses (1815); Nathan Drake, in Shakespeare and his Times (1817; 1838); Thomas Campbell, Specimens of the British Poets (1819); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); Edward Farr, Select Poetry, chiefly sacred, of the Reign of King James the First (1847); Boase and Courtney, Bibliotheca Cornubiensis (1874-82) 1:148-50; Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Foster, Alumni Oxon (1887-91); Wright, in West-Country Poets (1896); G. C. Moore Smith, "Fitzgeffrey: Poet and Divine" Modern Language Review 15 (1919); Cummings, Spenser: The Critical Heritage (1971); Saunders, Renaissance Poets (1983); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Rev. Charles Fitzgeffrey:

1.	1596  R. R., "To the Author" in Fitzgeffrey, Sir Francis Drake (1596) sig. A3.
2.	1596  Francis Rous, "To C. F." in Fitzgeffrey, Sir Francis Drake (1596) sig. A3v.
3.	1596  D. W., "To the Author" in Fitzgeffrey, Sir Francis Drake (1596) sig. A4.
4.	1598  Francis Meres, in Palladis Tamia (1598), ed. Allen (1933) 82.
5.	1611 ca.  John Davies of Hereford, "To my dear friend, Mr. Charles Fitz-jeffery" in Scourge of Folly (1611 ca.); Davies, Works, ed. Grosart (1878) 2:58.
6.	1624  William Kidley, in Kidley's Hawkins (1624) 3; Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Bliss (1815) 2:369.
7.	1628  Robert Hayman, in Quodlibets (1628); Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Bliss (1815) 608-09.
8.	1634  Henry Beesley, "To the reverend Author on his several Workes" Fitzgeffrey, The Blessed Birth-Day celebrated in some Pious Meditations (1634) sig. A4-A4v.
9.	1638  Robert Chamberlain, "On the Death of Mr. Charles Fitz-Geffrays, Minister of Gods Word" Nocturnal Lucubrations (1638; 1652) sig. H6-H6v.
10.	1808  Thomas Park, "The Blessed Birth-Day" Censura Literaria 6 (1806) 234-36.
11.	1820  John Payne Collier, in Poetical Decameron (1820) 1:18.
12.	1847  Edward Farr, in Select Poetry, chiefly sacred, of the Reign of King James the First (1847) xl-xli.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Rev. Charles Fitzgeffrey:

1.	1675  Edward Phillips, in Theatrum Poetarum (1675) 2:219.
2.	1690  Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1690-91; 1721) 1:606-07.
3.	1802  Joseph Ritson, Bibliographia Poetica (1802) 205-06.
4.	1812  Alexander Chalmers, in General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17) 14:331-32.
5.	1817  Nathan Drake, in Shakespeare and his Times (1817; 1838) 301.
6.	1819  Thomas Campbell, in Specimens of the British Poets (1819; 1845) 142.
7.	1896  W. H. K. Wright, in West-Country Poets (1896) 173-74.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1600  Sir William Vaughan:   Charles Fitzgeffrey, "In praise of the Golden-grove moralized by Master Vaughan" Vaughan, The Golden-grove (1600) sig. B2-B2v.
2.	1601  Francis Rous the Elder:   Charles Fitzgeffrey, "Ad Franciscum Rousaeum" Affaniae: sive Epigrammatum (1601) 59-60.
3.	1603  John Davies of Hereford:   Charles Fitzgeffrey, "Upon the Discoverie of the little World by Master John Davies" Davies, Microcosmos (1603) sig. B3-B3v.
4.	1605  Joshua Sylvester:   Charles Fitzgeffrey, "Ad Joshuam Sylvestrum Gulielmi Salustii genuinum Interpretem" Joshua Sylvester, Bartas, his Devine Weekes and Workes (1605) sig. B3v.