CHAPTER III

THOMAS OVERBURY Mr. Thomas Overbury, gentleman, scholar, and poet, sometime gentleman-commoner of Queen's College, Oxford, where he had taken a degree in arts, and law student of the Middle Temple, was homing from foreign wanderings. Enriched in worldly experience, but in no other gear, he was lured back to England by the hope of finding employment worthy of his undoubted talents and exceptional accomplishments. Whilst not himself a Scot--he was the son of a Gloucestershire squire and bencher of the Middle Temple, …