SIR HENRY (1568-1639).-Diplomatist and poet, _s._ of a Kentish gentleman, was _b._ at Boughton Park, near Maidstone, and _ed._ at Winchester and Oxf. After spending 7 years on the Continent, he entered the Middle Temple. In 1595 he became sec. to the Earl of Essex, who employed him abroad, and while at Venice he wrote _The State of Christendom