(Richard), was born in Northamptonshire, about the middle of the 16th century, and educated at Oxford, after which he was appointed master of the free-school at Sandwich in Kent. He composed Grammatica Latina, Graeca, et Hebraica, compendium, cum radicibus, London 1606; and sent a great number of well-grounded scholars to the universities. He also spent 12 years in compiling a history of the Turks; which was first printed in 1610, and by which he has perpetuated his name. In the later editions it is called, The general history of the Turks, from the first beginning of that nation to the rising of the Ottoman family, &c. He died in 1610, and this history has been since continued by several hands; the best continuation is that by Paul Ricaut confut at Smyrna, folio, London 1680. Knolles wrote also, "The lives and conquests of the Ottoman kings and emperors to the year 1610;" which was not printed till after his death in 1621, to which time it was continued by another hand; and lastly, "A brief discourse of the greatness of the Turkish empire, and wherein the greatness of the strength thereof consisteth, &c."