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Richard Edwards [Edwardes]
(1525-1566)
English composer and poet, who became a member of the Chapel Royal for the coronation of Queen Mary September 17, 1553, became Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal in 1561 and wrote two plays for them.
His five surviving songs, of which the most famous is In going to my naked bed, show the influence of the Franco-Flemish style on English music before the arrival of the Italian madrigal. Three keyboard arrangements of 3 part-songs (only one assigned to him, but the other two assumed to be his from his authorship of the words) survive in MS.
Richard Edwardes was born in March of 1525 (some records say 1523) in the Parish of North Petherton, Somerset.
Edwardes entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on the 11th of May in 1540 at the age of 15 years and two months; he was admitted as a Fellow on August 11, 1544, He received his BA degree on Nov 1, 1544, and his MA degree and was ordained on February 3, 1546, a Priest of the Catholic
