John de Beauchesne

[1] He immigrated to London around 1565 (perhaps to find a more favourable environment for Protestant opinions); in 1567 he had been living in the ward of Farringdon Without, home to Chancery Lane and St Bartholomew's Hospital, for two years.

Berthold Wolpe identified Beauchesne as the creator of the calligraphic pages in Bowyer's Heroica Eulogia, a manuscript dedicated (but perhaps never presented) to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester combining "paintings, coats of arms, Latin poems, 14 distinctive styles of handwriting, and historical documents".

Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautrouillier, dwelling in the blackefrieres As Vautrollier had registered two books of "copies" of hands with the Stationers' Company in 1569, it is possible that this volume combined originally separate works by Beauchesne and by Master John Baildon, a curate of St Mildred in the Poultry.

Par jehan de Beauchesne Parisien, Avec privilege du Roi, which displays a sensitive Italian influence.

[1] He returned to England by 1583 and about 1595 published a third treatise on handwriting, La Clef de l'Escriture, dedicated to the three daughters of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury.