Jerome Bowes
Sir Jerome Bowes | |
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Member of Parliament for Reading | |
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Sir Jerome Bowes (died 1616) was an
Early life
He was born into a
Diplomatic mission to Russia
Bowes was restored to favour, and in 1583 was appointed ambassador to
In Collins' account Ivan IV of Russia is said to have nailed the French ambassador's hat to his head. Bowes at his next audience put on his hat, and the tsar threatened him with the like punishment. Bowes replied that he did not represent the cowardly king of France, but the invincible
Alfred Nicolas Rambaud, in his History of Russia, blamed Bowes for clumsiness and lack of tact. The ambassador was imprisoned, threatened, and at last dismissed by Feodor. When ready to embark he sent back the new tsar's letters and "paltry present".[1]
Later years
There is only fragmentary evidence for Bowes' subsequent activities. In a report by the lord chief baron of the exchequer he appears in a discreditable light, as having fraudulently dealt with a will under which he claimed (the record is undated, but assigned to 1587 in the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic). On 5 February 1592 a special licence was granted him to make drinking-glasses in England and Ireland for twelve years;[1] his will indicates that he later renewed the licence.[3] In 1597 the parishioners of St Ann Blackfriars built, at their own cost a warehouse for his use, beneath an extension to their church, on land which they had purchased but on which he held the lease. They also paid him £133.[4] He was elected to parliament in 1601 for Lancaster and 1604 for Reading.[5]
By 1599 he was living at Charing Cross, where, in 1607 his house was robbed in a well-documented case, in which a female servant was murdered.[3][6] Bowes was buried on 28 March 1616 in Hackney Church. A portrait of him, painted in the year of his embassy, is in the Suffolk Collection.[1]
Writings
In his retirement from court he translated from the French an Apology for the Christians of France ... of the reformed religion (1579).[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Browne, Richard Charles (1886). "Bowes, Jerome". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 6. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Isabel De Madariaga, Ivan the Terrible (2006), p. 344 and p. 348.
- ^ a b "The passage from Charing Cross to Spring Gardens". Survey of London: volume 16: St Martin-in-the-Fields I: Charing Cross. 1935. pp. 111–113. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
- ^ Newcourt, Richard (1708). Repetorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense. Vol. 1. London. p. 279.
- ^ [1], Lancashire and Cheshire Historical and genealogical notes, p. 49, Retrieved 2 Oct 2009.
- ^ An account was published as A true report of the horrible Murther which was committed in the house of Sir Ierome Bowes, Knight (1607)
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Browne, Richard Charles (1886). "Bowes, Jerome". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 6. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
External links
- Hutchinson, John (1902). . A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices (1 ed.). Canterbury: the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. pp. 25–26.
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