The Junior Classics - William Patten

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Résumé :
Junior Classics Series is a collection of children stories and tales designed to appeal to the young and young at heart.

Biographie:
William Patten served in government during the reigns of King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I as an author, scholar, and government officer. William Patten, the son of clothworker Richard Patten and John Baskerville's daughter Grace, was born in London. William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, was a brother of his grandpa, Richard Patten of Boslow, Derbyshire. His sister, Alice, was married to Armagil Waad, whom Patten referred to as a friend during his expedition into Scotland, and his mother, Grace, is supposed to have predeceased her husband. Patten was a student at Gonville Hall in Cambridge as well as the parish clerk and minor chaplain at St. Mary-at-Hill in Billingsgate, London. In Billingsgate, Patten's first wife, whose identity is unknown, passed away in 1549. Afterwards, he married Anne, who was a Johnson heiress's daughter from Boston, Lincolnshire. In The Calendar of Scripture, he defines