Verstegan

Verstegan, RICHARD (died about 1635), author and printer, was the descendant of a family from Guelderland settled in England, was educated at Oxford, but after becoming a Catholic established himself at Antwerp as a printer. He was an accomplished Anglo-Saxon scholar. Of his works the best known are Theatrum Crudelitatum Haereticorum (Antwerp, 1587; often republished), with copperplates showing the hanging, quartering, &c. of the Catholic martyrs by the Protestants; Odes in Imitation of the Seven Penitential Psalms (1601); and A Restitution of Decayed Intelligencie in Antiquities (1605), a work showing much erudition, and containing some quaint and ingenious speculation.