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"Thomas Bancroft.
According to Grosart, in the D.N.B., Thomas Bancroft flourished from 1633 to 1658. A native of Swarston, Derbyshire, he attended St. Catherine's at Cambridge in 1613, and was there a friend and contemporary of James Shirley. When his oldest brother died in 1639 the family property was broken up. Grosart lists four works of the poet: 'The Glutton's Feaver' (1633), 'Two Bookes of Epigrammes and Epitaphs' (1639), a poem to the memory of Lord Hastings in Brome's 'Lachrymae Musarum' (1649), and 'The Heroicall Lover, or Antheon and Fidelta' (1658) In 1658 he was living at Bradley. He was known traditionally in Derbyshire as 'the small poet.'
In a letter to the L.T.L.S. on Sept. 29, 1921, Professor G.C. Moore Smith added to our information by calling attention to some remarks in Nichol's 'Leicestershire' (III, 927-8). There a quoted poem of Thomas Pestell's indicates that Bancroft wrote 'The Glutton's Feaver' while an usher at Market Bosworth school in Leicestershire (the same school at which Dr. Johnson later taught). Prof. Smith points out that the school was founded by Sir Wolstan Dixie in 1586; that Bancroft's epigrams contain a verse addressed to Thomas Dixie and other verses mentioning Leicestershire persons and places. (The connection is clearer than that. Professor Smith failed to notice that 'The Glutton's Feaver' is dedicated to Wolstan Dixie, probably the son of the founder.) Prof. Smith also suggests that the poet got his position at the school through Sir John Harpur of Swarston, who was related to the Dixies and whose name is a familiar one in the poet's epigrams.
These facts may be modified and supplemented. The date of Bancroft's death may definitely be put at Nov. 5, 1658, according to an entry in the register of the church at Bradley. ('Notes and Queries'; 3d Series, 9.67, Jan. 2, 1866.) Because of the lack of the original parish register at Swarston I have been unable to discover the date of his birth, but I suggest that it be put tentatively at c. 1596, the birth date of his contemporary at Cambridge, James Shirley.
An entry in the 'Leicestershire Marriage Licenses' (Cited by Mr. Smith), tells us that Bancroft was married in 1626 to 'Rebecca Errington, Widow of Osgathorpe.' Incidentally a sister of the poet, Elizabeth, had married a John Errington in 1621 ('Index Library,' p. 38), who became the executor of Bancroft's father's will.
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d. 5 Nov 1658, Bradley, Derbyshire, England