him of which he was guiltless ; many fathered upon him to secure the favor of liis name. But, after all such rectifications, the multitude and nuilti]ilicit_v of his writings must have been amazing, especially when regarded as the leisure fruitage of an active life. Most of them have been lost, destroj'ed, or forgotten. Le- land humorously reports the disappointment attending his own eager exploration of the Franciscan treasures at Oxford at the time of the dissolution of the monas- teries: '^ Summe Jupiter! quid ego illic inveni .' Pul- verem autem inveni, Ulas aranearum, tineas, hlattas, si- tum denique et sqiudurem. Inveni etlum et libros, sed quos tribus oholis non emerevi" {Script. Brit. p. 28G). Much, however, remaii»s, the greater part of which is still unpublished. In Pegge's Life of Grosseteste — "the scarcest of modern books" — tiie list of his writ- ings fills twent^'-three quarto pages, closel}' printed. Similar catalogues are given by Leland, Tanner, Ou- din, etc. These it were unreasonable to repeat or to re- view. He was the reputed author of a religious ro- mance in verse, Chasteau d' Amour, and of the didactic poem Manuel Peche, translated by Robert de Brunne. Richard Hanipole's Prikke of Conscience has also been referred to him. He ma}' have composed or compiled the rude draft of these noted productions, or may have provided the crude materials with which they were constructed. We know from many sources that the venerable Ijishop was devoted to music, and " smit with the love of sacred song." Polycarp Leyser ascribes to him the metrical Dialcgus inter Corpus it Animam, of which many versions exist in Anglo-Nor- man, English, Greek, Provencal, French, German, Walloon, Spanish, Italian, Danish, and Swedisli {Lat- in Poems of Walter Mapes, ed. Wright, p. 95-106, 321, 349), and whose echoes may have occasioned Tennyson's Tuo Voices. Grosseteste left behind him many moral and theological treatises, and a copious collection of sermons. He wrote commentaries on Aristotle and Bocthius, and translated several works from the Greek. He wrote on agriculture, digested according to the cal- endar, 77te Buke of Husbandry, and of Planti/nge and Graffynge Trees and Vynes, according to Wynlv}n de Worde's title of the version printed by him. This was probably compiled from Palladius and the Geop)onica. We trace in the letters of Adam de Marisco his untir- ing interest in all physical research and contempora- neous history ; and from Roger Bacon we learn that he wrote De Iride, de Cometis, et de aliis {Co7iip. Stud. c. viii), including probably a discussion of tides. Other works have been alluded to already. But the most in- teresting of his remains, for the knowledge of the man and of his age, is the large volume of his letters, from which, and from the instructive preface by Mr. Luard, this notice has been principally drawn.
Authorities. — The fascination of Grosseteste's name has in successive centuries excited the enthusiasm of biographers, but has rarely resulted in the accomplish- ment of their designs. Bishop Barlow, of Lincoln ; Samuel Knight, the biographer of dean Colet and Erasmus, and Anthony h Wood, collected materials for his life. Williams, archbishop of York, previously bishop of Lincoln, the successor of lord Bacon in the custody of the seals, meditated the publication of Gros- seteste's life and writings in three volumes folio, but was prevented by tlie outburst of the Great Rebellion. Edward Brown, of Clare Hall, designed a life of the great bishop, but was anticipated by death in 1G'J9. Dr. Samuel Pegge achieved his biography, which is valuable, but unattainable. Other authorities, some of which have been previously referred to, are Leland, Script. Hist. Brit. ; Ball, Script. HI. Mnj. Brit. ; Tan- ner, Bibliotheca ; 'Wharton, A7iglin Sacra ; Oudin, Script. Erclis. ; Pope Blount, Cens. Celebr. Atict. ; Godwin, Be PrcrsuUhns Anglia: ;-Cave, Script. Heel. Hist. ; Waiton, /list. English Poetry ; Epistolm Roberti Grosseteste, edit. Luard ; MonUTJi^ita Franciscana, ed. Brewer, contain, ing Eccleston, DeAdventu Fratrum Minortim, and Ada-
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7ni de Marisco Epistol-v, with valuable appendixes ; R:!geri Baconis Opera Anecdoia, edit. Brewer ; Royal and Historical Letters regn. Henry III. The last four works are published by the British Treasury, in con- tinuation of the task of the Record Commission. To these authorities should be added the Chronicles of Matthew of Paris, Mattliew of Westminster, Roger of Weudover, Capgrave, Trivet, Rislianger, and Laner- cost. See also Lechler, Robert Groseteste (Leipsig, 18G7). (G. F. H.)
Grostete, Claude, a French Protestant theolo- gian, was born at Orleans in 1G47. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar by the Parliament of Paris in 16G5, but afterwards devoted himself to the- ology, and in 1675 became pastor of Lis}'. In 1G82 he accepted a call to Rouen, but soon after returned to Lisy, wiiere he remained until the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1G85. Obliged to leave France, he went to England, and died at London in 1713. He wrote Traite de V Inspiration des lirrrs sacrez du N. T. (Anist. IGDo, 8vo) : — Eatretiens sur la corresjyondance fraterndle de VEglise anglicane avec les autres Eglises reformees (Hague, 1708, 12mo) : — Relation de la So- dete etablie pour la jiropagation de I' Evangile dans les pays etrangers, avec trois sermons (Rotterd. 1708): — Nouveaux Memoires pour servir a Vhistoire des trois Camisards oh, Von voit les declarations de M. le colonel Cavalier (London, 1708, 8vo) : — La Pratique de V IIu- milite (Amst. 1710, 12mo): — Charitas Anglicana (about 1712) : — Le Devoir du chretien convalescent, en quatre sermons snr le Psa. cxvi, 8, 9, et les quatres sentiments du roi Ezechias sur sa maladie, sa convalescence et sur sa chute apres sa convalescence (Hague, 1713, 8vo) : — Ser- mms sur divers textes (Amsterdam, 1715, 8vo). See Vie de Claude Grostete (prelixed to his Sermons sur di- vers textes) ; Haag, La France Protestaute ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxii, 190.