Robert Glover (1544-1588)
I have heard Sir Wm. Dugdale say, that though Mr. Camden had the name, yet Mr. Glover was the best herald that did ever belong to the office. He tooke a great deale of paines in searching the antiquities of severall counties. He wrote a most delicate hand, and pourtrayed finely.
There is (or late was) at a coffee-house at the upper end of Bell-yard (or Shier-lane), under his owne hand, a Visitation of Cheshire, a most curious piece, which Sir Wm. Dugdale wish’t me to see; and he told me that at York, at some ordinary house (I thinke a house of entertainment) he sawe such an elaborate piece of Yorkshire. But severall counties he surveyd, and that with great exactnes, but after his death they were all scattered abroad, and fell into ignorant hands.
He lies interred neer Mr. Foxe’s monument (who wrote the Martyrologie) in St. Giles’ Cripplegate Chancell, but I could not find any inscription concerning him. ☞ Quaere the register when he was buried. ’Twas Mr. John Gibbons992, Blewmantle, told me he was buried here. I thinke Mr. Glover was Blewmantle.
Notes
991The learned herald, Mr.... Glover, was borne at... in Somersetshire; vide Fuller’s ‘Worthies’ de hoc.