Edmund Bolton

Edmund Bolton (born 1575?—died 1633?) was an English historian, antiquarian, and poet whose lyrics are among the best in the miscellany Englands Helicon (1600), a widely known anthology of late 16th-century lyric and pastoral poetry. Bolton was educated at Cambridge and the Inner Temple, London. He obtained a minor position at court but was debarred from public office because of his Roman Catholicism, and he tried to support himself by writing. A friend of William...