Thomas Churchyard - Works

Works

The extant works of Churchyard, exclusive of commendatory and occasional verses, include:

  • A lamentable and pitifull Description of the wofull warres in Flanders (1578)
  • A general rehearsall of warres, called Churchyard's Choise (1579), really a completion of the Chippes, and containing, like it, a number of detached pieces
  • A light Bondel of livelie Discourses, called Churchyardes Charge (1580)
  • A Warning to the Wyse, an immediate account of England's 1580 earthquake (1580)
  • The Worthines of Wales (1587), a valuable antiquarian work in prose and verse, anticipating Michael Drayton
  • Churchyard's Challenge (1593)
  • A Musicall Consort of Heavenly harmonic, called Churchyards Charitie (1595)
  • A True Discourse Historicall, of the succeeding Governors in the Netherlands (1602)

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