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NameArthur Golding 
[81, p. 67 and Pedigree between pp. 32 and 33]
[81, p. 67 and Pedigree between pp. 32 and 33]Deathaft 1605
GeneralTranslated many classics to English.
FatherJohn Golding (-1547)
MotherN. N.
Spouses
Notes for Arthur Golding
He and Ursula had four sons and four daughters.
The eldest son Harry m. Joan d. of Henry Goodhay and had a son Henry and four daus.
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The following account by ... looks very good:
married Arthur GOLDING esquire Translator son of John GOLDING of Halstead Essex and Ursula MARSTON. Arthur was born abt. 1536. He was buried on 13 May 1606 in Belchamp St. Paul Essex.
1585 P.R.O. SP 46/33/fo 349-50
Arthur Golding to Myldemay: is charged with £240 set over to the Queen by
Richard Stonley, a teller, although not condemned by law. Process is also directed
against him for debts of his brother, the late Henry Golding, as surety for Gardyner,
despite the order discharging sheriffs from levying sums on Easthorpe manor, co.
Essex, due to the Queen by Henry for Richard Smith's debts; Colchester; 7 (-)
1585.
1928-1934 Essex Record Office T/G 67/1
PAPERS RELATING TO DE VERE/SHALESPEARE DEBATE
Dates of Creation 1928-1934
Papers of the Rev. R.F. Flynn, vicar of Belchamp St. Paul, relating to Arthur
Golding (d. 1606) and the de Vere - Shakespeare controversy
Includes:-correspondence with Louis Thorn Golding (author of An Elizabethan
Puritan , life of Arthur Golding); copy of Holman's account of monuments at
Belchamp St. Paul, c.1710; order of service and account of dedication of memorial
window to Arthur Golding, 1934, copies of Ruridecanal Magazine, 1933 and
undated article there on Golding (based on D.N.B .); copy of circular of
Shakespeare Fellowship and letter from secretary, B.M. Ward, 1928
1933/4 Essex Record Office D/P 408/6/3
Parish records BELCHAMP ST. PAUL, St. Andrew
Faculty to insert stained glass window and plate in parish church in memory of
Arthur Golding, scholar, translator and poet (1536-1606)
With cognate correspondence
ARTHUR GOLDING: Brief Biography and List of Works
By Barboura Flues copyright © 2002
[http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/goldBio.htm]
The prolific translator Arthur Golding (1536-1606) was a younger son born into a
family of considerable substance, especially within the influential Puritan ranks.
Although his older brothers had attained considerable wealth, Golding's life was
one of financial insecurity, proof that literary fame during that period carried little
commensurate monetary reward. Married, with seven children, the death of an
older brother left him temporarily a wealthy man. The properties, however, had
been mortgaged to the Queen; and other encumbrances finally drained the
resources he had inherited.
Notwithstanding a large body of work and a number of wealthy and influential
patrons, Golding's finances reached a low ebb in 1593 when he was put into the
Fleet Prison for debt. Possible help came from his family, and Louis Golding
suggests that William Brooke, Lord Cobham (a close friend of Cecil), may have
been of assistance [Golding, pp.105-106]. Golding died in 1606, as noted in the
Parish Register of Belchamp St. Paul's (May 13, 1606): "Mr. Arthur Golding,
Esquire."
Golding dedicated to Sir William Cecil his first publication, Aretine's History of the
Wars between the Imperials and the Goths for the possession of Italy (1563). This
was the first of five classical translations that were to bring him fame.
Arthur Golding (c. 1536 - c. 1605) was an English translator.
He was the son of John Golding of Belchamp St Paul and Halsted, Essex, an
auditor of the Exchequer, and was born probably in London. His half-sister,
Margaret, married John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford. By 1549 Arthur was in the
service of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, then Lord Protector. The
statement that he was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, lacks
corroboration. He seems to have resided for some time in the house of William
Cecil, Lord Burghley, in The Strand, with his nephew, the poet, the 17th Earl of
Oxford, whose receiver he was, for two of his dedications are dated from Cecil
House.
His chief work is his translation of Ovid. The Fyrst Fower Bookes of P. Ovidius
Nasos worke, entitled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into Englishe meter
(1565), was supplemented in 1567 by a translation of the fifteen books. Strangely
enough the translator of Ovid was a man of strong Puritan sympathies, and he
translated many of the works of Calvin. To his version of the Metamorphoses he
prefixed a long metrical explanation of his reasons for considering it a work of
edification. He sets forth the moral which he supposes to underlie certain of the
stories, and shows how the pagan machinery may be brought into line with
Christian thought.
It was from Golding's pages that many of the Elizabethans drew their knowledge
of classical mythology, and there is little doubt that William Shakespeare was well
acquainted with the book. Golding translated also the Commentaries of Caesar
(1565), Calvin's commentaries on the Psalms (1571), his sermons on the Galatians
and Ephesians, on Deuteronomy and the book of Job, Theodore Beza's Tragedie of
Abrahams Sacrifice (1577) and the De Beneficiis of Seneca (1578).
He completed a translation begun by Sir Philip Sidney from Philippe de Mornay,
A Worke concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion (1604). His only
original work is a prose Discourse on the earthquake of 1580, in which he saw a
judgment of God on the wickedness of his time. He inherited three considerable
estates in Essex, the greater part of which he sold in 1595. The last trace we have
of Golding is contained in an order dated July 25, 1605, giving him licence to print
certain of his works.
An Elizabethan Puritan : Arthur Golding, the translator of Ovid's Metamorphoses
and also of John Calvin's Sermons
o By: Louis Thorn Golding
o Publisher: New York : R.R. Smith, 1937.
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The eldest son Harry m. Joan d. of Henry Goodhay and had a son Henry and four daus.
________________________________________________________
The following account by ... looks very good:
married Arthur GOLDING esquire Translator son of John GOLDING of Halstead Essex and Ursula MARSTON. Arthur was born abt. 1536. He was buried on 13 May 1606 in Belchamp St. Paul Essex.
1585 P.R.O. SP 46/33/fo 349-50
Arthur Golding to Myldemay: is charged with £240 set over to the Queen by
Richard Stonley, a teller, although not condemned by law. Process is also directed
against him for debts of his brother, the late Henry Golding, as surety for Gardyner,
despite the order discharging sheriffs from levying sums on Easthorpe manor, co.
Essex, due to the Queen by Henry for Richard Smith's debts; Colchester; 7 (-)
1585.
1928-1934 Essex Record Office T/G 67/1
PAPERS RELATING TO DE VERE/SHALESPEARE DEBATE
Dates of Creation 1928-1934
Papers of the Rev. R.F. Flynn, vicar of Belchamp St. Paul, relating to Arthur
Golding (d. 1606) and the de Vere - Shakespeare controversy
Includes:-correspondence with Louis Thorn Golding (author of An Elizabethan
Puritan , life of Arthur Golding); copy of Holman's account of monuments at
Belchamp St. Paul, c.1710; order of service and account of dedication of memorial
window to Arthur Golding, 1934, copies of Ruridecanal Magazine, 1933 and
undated article there on Golding (based on D.N.B .); copy of circular of
Shakespeare Fellowship and letter from secretary, B.M. Ward, 1928
1933/4 Essex Record Office D/P 408/6/3
Parish records BELCHAMP ST. PAUL, St. Andrew
Faculty to insert stained glass window and plate in parish church in memory of
Arthur Golding, scholar, translator and poet (1536-1606)
With cognate correspondence
ARTHUR GOLDING: Brief Biography and List of Works
By Barboura Flues copyright © 2002
[http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/goldBio.htm]
The prolific translator Arthur Golding (1536-1606) was a younger son born into a
family of considerable substance, especially within the influential Puritan ranks.
Although his older brothers had attained considerable wealth, Golding's life was
one of financial insecurity, proof that literary fame during that period carried little
commensurate monetary reward. Married, with seven children, the death of an
older brother left him temporarily a wealthy man. The properties, however, had
been mortgaged to the Queen; and other encumbrances finally drained the
resources he had inherited.
Notwithstanding a large body of work and a number of wealthy and influential
patrons, Golding's finances reached a low ebb in 1593 when he was put into the
Fleet Prison for debt. Possible help came from his family, and Louis Golding
suggests that William Brooke, Lord Cobham (a close friend of Cecil), may have
been of assistance [Golding, pp.105-106]. Golding died in 1606, as noted in the
Parish Register of Belchamp St. Paul's (May 13, 1606): "Mr. Arthur Golding,
Esquire."
Golding dedicated to Sir William Cecil his first publication, Aretine's History of the
Wars between the Imperials and the Goths for the possession of Italy (1563). This
was the first of five classical translations that were to bring him fame.
Arthur Golding (c. 1536 - c. 1605) was an English translator.
He was the son of John Golding of Belchamp St Paul and Halsted, Essex, an
auditor of the Exchequer, and was born probably in London. His half-sister,
Margaret, married John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford. By 1549 Arthur was in the
service of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, then Lord Protector. The
statement that he was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, lacks
corroboration. He seems to have resided for some time in the house of William
Cecil, Lord Burghley, in The Strand, with his nephew, the poet, the 17th Earl of
Oxford, whose receiver he was, for two of his dedications are dated from Cecil
House.
His chief work is his translation of Ovid. The Fyrst Fower Bookes of P. Ovidius
Nasos worke, entitled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into Englishe meter
(1565), was supplemented in 1567 by a translation of the fifteen books. Strangely
enough the translator of Ovid was a man of strong Puritan sympathies, and he
translated many of the works of Calvin. To his version of the Metamorphoses he
prefixed a long metrical explanation of his reasons for considering it a work of
edification. He sets forth the moral which he supposes to underlie certain of the
stories, and shows how the pagan machinery may be brought into line with
Christian thought.
It was from Golding's pages that many of the Elizabethans drew their knowledge
of classical mythology, and there is little doubt that William Shakespeare was well
acquainted with the book. Golding translated also the Commentaries of Caesar
(1565), Calvin's commentaries on the Psalms (1571), his sermons on the Galatians
and Ephesians, on Deuteronomy and the book of Job, Theodore Beza's Tragedie of
Abrahams Sacrifice (1577) and the De Beneficiis of Seneca (1578).
He completed a translation begun by Sir Philip Sidney from Philippe de Mornay,
A Worke concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion (1604). His only
original work is a prose Discourse on the earthquake of 1580, in which he saw a
judgment of God on the wickedness of his time. He inherited three considerable
estates in Essex, the greater part of which he sold in 1595. The last trace we have
of Golding is contained in an order dated July 25, 1605, giving him licence to print
certain of his works.
An Elizabethan Puritan : Arthur Golding, the translator of Ovid's Metamorphoses
and also of John Calvin's Sermons
o By: Louis Thorn Golding
o Publisher: New York : R.R. Smith, 1937.
__________________________________________________________
DNB Main notes for Arthur Golding
He has an article in the new Oxford DNB.