He wrote on Christian ritual, and edited Bartholomew Clerke's Latin translation of Castiglione's Courtier, 1713.
Samuel Drake was born in Pontefract in 1687 or 1688,[1] although some older sources give the earlier date of c. 1686.
de Curiali sive Aulico ex Italico sermone in Latinum conversi, interprete Bartholomæo Clerke, 8vo.
In 1720 Drake (then a fellow of his college) issued proposals for printing Archbishop Parker's great work on ecclesiastical antiquities.
The elder Bowyer undertook the work, and brought it out in a handsome folio in 1729, under the title of Matthæi Parker … de Antiquitate Britannicæ Ecclesiæ.