Author Udall Nicholas

d Thomas Wriothesley and Sir Ralph Sadler; then joint principal secretaries of state. Although the felony of buggery carried a sentence of capital punishment (by hanging), his sentence was reduced to just under a year in the Marshalsea prison. In later years, a former pupil, the poet Thomas Tusser claimed Udall flogged him without cause.[1] A Protestant, he flourished under Edward VI and survived into the reign of the Roman Catholic Mary I. In 1547, he became Vicar of Braintree, in 1551 of Calborne, Isle of Wight and in 1554 headmaster of Westminster School. He translated part of the Apophthegms by Erasmus, and assisted in the English version of his Paraphrases of Erasmus, published in 1548 as The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente. Other works he translated were Pietro Martire's Discourse on the Eucharist and Thomas Gemini's Anatomia. Ralph Roister Doister was probably presented to Queen Mary as an entertainment around 1553, but not published until 1566. With John Leland he wrote a number of songs to celebrate the coronation of Anne Boleyn on the 31st of May 1533 using his Latinized name "Udallus".[5][6] Likewise, he is the author of a Latin textbook utilizing material from his comedy as well as the Roman poet Terence.