Nicholas Brigham

Nicholas Brigham (ya mutu a shekara ta 1558), Bale ya ambaci shi (Scriptores edit. 1557-9, ba a cikin na 1548) a matsayin masanin Latin da masanin tarihi ba, wanda ya bar wallafe-wallafen don yin aiki a kotunan shari'a, kuma wanda ya bunƙasa a shekara ta 1550. Ga wannan Pits ya kara da cewa shi ba mawaki ne na yau da kullun ba kuma mai magana mai kyau, kuma a cikin 1555 ya gina kabarin ƙasusuwan Geoffrey Chaucer a Westminster Abbey. Daga baya marubutan sun dauki wannan a matsayin Nicholas Brigham, "mai magana" na asusun ajiya, wanda ya mutu a shekara ta 1558.Perkins, Nicholas (2001). Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes. Boydell & Brewer. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-85991-631-8. Retrieved 9 December 2011.

 Rayuwa 
Anthony Wood (Athenæ Oxon. i. 309) ya yi hasashen cewa an haife shi a kusa da Caversham, inda babban ɗan'uwansa Thomas ke da ƙasashe na gado, kuma ya mutu a cikin 6 Edward VI, amma ya fito ne daga Brighams na Brigham a Yorkshire. Yanzu an sanya Anthony Brigham a matsayin mai ba da izini na gidan sarki na Caversham a cikin 1543 (Pat. 35 Hen. VIII, shafi na 14, m. 6), kuma a cikin 1544 yana da kyautar ƙasashe da ake kira Canon End a can (Pat. 36 Hen. VIII. Wood ya ci gaba da zaton cewa ya yi karatu a Hart Hall, Oxford, amma ko ya dauki digiri ko a'a bai bayyana ba.  

Brigham ya zama mai ba da kuɗi na Exchequer a shekara ta 1545, kuma an inganta shi zuwa mai ba da kuɗin farko a shekara ta 1555.  A cikin bazara na shekara ta 1558 sarauniya ta nada shi mai karɓar rancen da Birnin London ya yi mata, kuma babban mai karɓar duk tallafi, goma sha biyar, ko wasu kyawawan halaye.

 Kabarin Chaucer 
Wataƙila kawai rubuce-rubucen da aka sashi yanzu shine rubutun da ya yi a kan Chaucer . Kafin lokacinsa an rataye farantin gubar a cikin St. Bennet's Chapel, a Westminster Abbey, tare da rubutun Chaucer na Surigonius na Milan (Dart, i. shafi na 83): Galfridus Chaucer vates da fama Poesis Materne hac sacra sum tumulatus humo. A shekara ta 1555, Brigham ya cire ƙasusuwan mawaki zuwa kabarin marmara da ya gina a kudancin, kuma a kan abin da akwai hoton Chaucer da aka karɓa daga Thomas Hoccleve De Regimine Principis, tare da wannan rubutun: 
Wanda ya gudu daga Anglorum vates ter maximus olim
 Galfridus Chaucer conditur hoc tumulo:
Annum idan quæras Domini, idan tempora vitæ,

Bayan haka ya zo:

N. Brigham hos fecit Musarum nomine sumptus .

Idan roƙitas sun kasance, su tilasta maka suna docebit;''''Shin ba a san shi ba, duniya tana son wucewa,

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