Thomas Lodge was an English writer and medical practitioner whose life spanned the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
View of Soulton Hall, a manor on the edge of the Forest of Arden the Lodge family were associated with and lived at before transferring the freehold to 'Old' Sir Rowland Hill
Shakespeare was inspired to write As You Like It by Lodge's work Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacy, Found After His Death In His Cell At Silexedra
1598 edition of A Looking Glasse, for London and Englande
1640 edition of the translation of the works of Josephus
Thomas Lodge (Lord Mayor of London)
Sir Thomas Lodge, was Lord Mayor of London.
The manor of Soulton Hall, sold by Lodge to Sir Rowland Hill, publisher of the Geneva Bible, a possible inspiration for setting of Shakespeare's 'As You Like It' via Lodge's son Thomas. The hall building shown narrowly post-dates Lodge's ownership
The carrack Minion (from the Anthony Roll)