Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir John Finet

by John Hutchinson

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Sir John Finet

COURTIER AND WIT,

Was born at Soulton, near Dover, in 1571. He was a gentleman of wit and ingenuity among the courtiers of James I., and Charles I., and wrote a work on the precedency, treatment, audience, and punctilios to be observed towards foreign ambassadors at the English Court, under the title of "Fineti Philoxenus," published in 1656. He died in 1641.

[See Wood's "Fasti," by Bliss.]