John Studley’s Will

Mayne focuses on John Studley, an English academic, known as a translator of Seneca. Little concrete is known about what happened to Studley after he lost his fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1573. His translation of John Bale's Acta pontificum Romanorum, with sondrye additions and titled The Pageant of Popes, was printed in 1574. He may also have had some involvement in Thomas Newton's collection of English translations of Seneca's tragedies, Seneca his Tenne Tragedies. Studley's translations of Agamemnon, Hippolytus (Phaedra), Medea, and Hercules Oetaeus appear in the collection, which was printed by Thomas Marsh, both a longstanding associate of Newton. To date the last known indication of Studley's activities is probably contained in the register of admissions to Gray's Inn, which records the entry of Nathaniel Studley, son of John Studley, to the Inn on February 7, 1588.