an English miscellaneous writer of the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, and Member of Parliament for Dorchester. When Ashley was a boy he delighted in reading Bevis of Hampton, Guy of Warwick, Valentine and Orson, Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and laterthe Decameron of Boccace and the Heptameron of the Queen of Navarre.
Urania, in Latin verse, London, 1589, 4to, translated from the French of Du Bartas;
The Interchangeable Course, 1594, fol., translated from the French of Louis le Roy;
Almansor, the learned and victorious King that conq...
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Urania, in Latin verse, London, 1589, 4to, translated from the French of Du Bartas;
The Interchangeable Course, 1594, fol., translated from the French of Louis le Roy;
Almansor, the learned and victorious King that conquered Spain, his Life and Death, London, 1627, 4to, translated from the Spanish (In the preface to Almansor, he speaks of having been in the library of the Escorial, where, he says, he saw a glorious golden library of Arabian books[1]);
Relation of the Kingdom of Cochin-China, containing many admirable rarities and singularities of that country, London, 1633, 4to, translated from the Italian of Christ. Barri;
David Persecuted, translated from the Italian of Malvezzi, London, 1637.
