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YORKE — YOUNGE.

declined office on account of ill health. His Diary of the proceedings of the House of Commons from 1743 to 1745 is incorporated in Cobbett's Parliamentary History. He died 16 May, 1790.

He edited the Carleton Letters (1757), and Miscellaneous State Papers, 1501 to 1726 (1778); and printed some Anecdotes of Sir Robert Walpole under the title of Walpoliana (1783); and he has left numerous MSS.


YOUNG, or YONG, or YOUNGE, BARTHOLOMEW.
Translator.
d. 1598.

Admitted 19 May, 1582.

Son and heir of George Young, a merchant of London. He was admitted to the Middle Temple from New Inn. He describes himself as of the Middle Temple, where he took part in a "public show" as a French orator at the Inn. He spent some years in Spain, and on his return translated into English Montemayor's Diana. He also translated The Civile Conversation of Stephen Guazzo (1586); and The Amorous Fiammetta of Boccaccio from the Italian (1587).


YOUNGE. See YONGE and YOUNG.