This is the closest match to how Grimald describes his home in the poem A funeral song, upon the death of Annes his moother.
Some of his contributed verses in Tottle's Songes and Sonnettes refer to two women Grimald my have admired, Carie Day and Mistress Damascene Awdley.
[2] Grimald's connection to Nicholas Ridley (martyr), bishop of London, brought him under suspicion, and he was imprisoned in the Marshalsea.
Grimald received encouragement from the Matthew Smith, the president of the school, along with other teachers and students who were eager to participate in the arts.
Ridely's high opinion of Grimald was shown when the bishop chose him to deliver a Latin address in April 1553, Oratio ad pontifices.
Following Ridley's successful recommendation for Grimald to be appointed chantership of St Paul's Cathedral, Queen Mary acceded to the throne.
While in prison, Ridley wrote to Grimald and potentially sent him Lorenzo Valla's De falso credita et ementita Constantini Donatione declamatio, a text denouncing the pope's claim to dominion (13).
The correspondence caught the attention of the Catholic authority and consequently led to Grimald's imprisonment in the Marshalsea prison in 1555 (Stephen;Lee 1917).
In response to rumours of Grimald's collusion with the Catholic Church, Ridley said, "it will not sink into my head to think that Grimbol would ever play me such a Judas's part" (Matthew;Harrison 13).
When proposing the idea of writing a play, Grimald received support from his peers, teachers, and even the college's president.
[2][1] It cannot be determined whether Grimald was familiar with George Buchanan's Baptistes (1543), or with Jakob Schöpper's Johannes decollatus vel Ectrachelistes (1546).
Grimald provides a purely romantic motive for the catastrophe in the passionate attachment of Herodias to Herod Antipas, and constantly resorts to lyrical methods.
As a poet Grimald is memorable as the earliest follower of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey in the production of blank verse.
He writes sometimes simply enough, as in the lines on his own childhood addressed to his mother, but in general his style is more artificial, and his metaphors more studied than is the case with the other contributors to the Miscellany.
[5] According to Merrill, the work revolves around "those rectors, vicars, archdeacons, deans, prebendaries, etc., who spend their lives far from their flocks, or do not perform their sacred duties.
[3] Grimald contributed forty poems to the original edition (June 1557) of Songes and Sonettes (commonly known as Tottel's Miscellany).