[Fitch (William)]: The Christian Knight compiled by Sir William Wiseman Knight for the publike weale and happinesse of England, Scotland, and Ireland, London, Iohn Legatt, 1619, 4to, 'Alma Mater' device of Cambridge University on title (title lightly soiled and restored), modern crimson morocco by Sankorski and Sutcliffe, g.e. [STC 10926]; and 4 other early prose works in English, including Bartholomew Young's translation from Spanish of Diana of George of Montemayor (London, Edmund Bollifant, 1598). (5)

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[Fitch (William)]: The Christian Knight compiled by Sir William Wiseman Knight for the publike weale and happinesse of England, Scotland, and Ireland, London, Iohn Legatt, 1619, 4to, 'Alma Mater' device of Cambridge University on title (title lightly soiled and restored), modern crimson morocco by Sankorski and Sutcliffe, g.e. [STC 10926]; and 4 other early prose works in English, including Bartholomew Young's translation from Spanish of Diana of George of Montemayor (London, Edmund Bollifant, 1598). (5)

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William Fitch (1536-1611), otherwise known as Benedict Canfield, studied law in Middle Temple but having converted to catholicism went to Douai, subsequently entering the convent of the Capuchins in Paris. After his return to England in 1589, he was imprisoned several times, once as a result of the sensation he caused by walking through the Cambridge streets in a Franciscan habit. He was a celebrated preacher in both French and English.

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