Robert Codrington (translator)
Robert Codrington (c.1602–c.1665) was an English author, known as a translator. Life From a Gloucestershire family, Codrington was elected a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, 29 July 1619, at the age of 17, and took the degree of M.A. in 1626. After travelling, he returned home, married, and settled in Norfolk. In May 1641 he was imprisoned by the House of Commons for publishing an elegy on the Earl of Strafford. In later life Codrington lived in London. According to Anthony Wood, he died in the Great Plague of 1665. Works Codrington was a prolific writer and translator. His best known work was the Life and Death of Robert, Earl of Essex, London 1646, reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany; Anthony Wood regarded it as a partisan parliamentarian work. It was compiled using contemporary pamphlets. He wrote also the following works: Translated from French: Treatise of the Knowledge of God, by Peter Du Moulin, London, 1634. The Memorials of Margaret de Valois, first wife of Henry IV of France, 1641, 1658, 1662. The fifth book of Caussin's Holy Court, London, 1650. Heptameron, or the History of the Fortunate Lovers, by Margaret de Valois, London, 1654. Shibboleth, or the Reformation of several