by John Kingston for John Wight very late in 1559. Bavand signed his dedication to queen Elizabeth I : ‘At the Middle Temple the 20th day of December’. The text is a close translation of the recently-printed De republica bene instituenda paraenesis (1556) of Johannes Ferrarius, rector of the Protestant university of Marburg in Germany. Ferrarius is given to illustrate his points with extracts from the great Latin poets of antiquity, and Bavand translates them into English verse. His achievement was noted by Jasper Heywood in the verse preface to his translation of Seneca’s Thyestes, where Bavand is one of a group of poets at the Inns of Court whom he praises as ‘Minerva’s men’. Heywood writes : ‘There Bavand bides, that turn’d his tool, a Commonwealth to frame, | And greater grace in English gives to worthy author’s name’. The other poets mentioned by Heywood are : Thomas North (Lincoln’s Inn); Thomas Sackville (Inner Temple); Thomas Norton (Inner Temple); Christopher Yelverton (Gray’s Inn); William Baldwin; Thomas Blundeville (Gray’s Inn); and Barnabe Googe (Staple Inn). References External links Year of birth missing 16th-century English writers 16th-century male writers Alumni of the University of Oxford 1575 deaths