Rowland Woodward
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Rowland WOODWARD 1573-1636
Biographical Note
Secretary to Sir Henry Wotton, poet, friend of John Donne.
Books
His books, which initially entered the Fane family library at Apethorpe, are now dispersed; his inscriptions regularly include the Spanish motto “De juegos el mejor es con la hoja”.
Sources
- Maggs (catalogues of the booksellers Maggs Bros) 1121 (1990)/16.
- Smith, Daniel Starza. "Woodward, Rowland (bap. 1573, d. 1636), poet, secretary, and scribe." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.