CHAMBERLAYNE, WILLIAM English poet, died on July II, 1679. Nothing is known of his history ex cept that he practised as a physician at Shaftesbury in Dorset shire, and fought on the Royalist side at the second battle of Newbury. His works are: Pharonnida (1659), a verse romance in five books; Love's Victory (1658), a tragicomedy, acted under another title in 1678 at the Theatre Royal; England's Jubilee (166o) , a poem in honour of the Restoration. A prose version of Pharonnida, entitled Eromena or The Noble Stranger, appeared in 1683. Southey speaks of him as "a poet to whom I am indebted for many hours of delight." Pharonnida was reprinted by S. W. Singer in 182o, and again in 1905 by Prof. G. Saintsbury in Minor Poets of the Caroline Period (vol. i.) . The poem is loose in construction, but contains some passages of great beauty.