Anthony Chute

He also states that Chute had participated in Francis Drake's 1589 English Armada expedition to Portugal.

[3] In a dedication he called the poem, "the first invention of my beginning muse" implying that it was his earliest work.

Pierces Supererogation contains two poems by Chute and letters in which he praises Harvey and lambasts Nashe.

Shortly afterwards, Chute wrote to Lord Burghley, applying for the position of pursuivant of arms, describing himself as a "poor gentleman and a scholar".

[2] For a long time, Thomas Edwards' poem Cephalus and Procris was attributed to Chute because of a remark about it in Have with You to Saffron-Walden.

The first known image of a man smoking a pipe, from Chute's Tabaco (1595).