1582. Batman uppon Barthōlome His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum. Newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such Additions as are requisite unto every seuerall Booke: Taken foorth of the most approved Authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all Estates as well for the benefite of the Mind as the Bodie. London. Imprinted by Thomas East, dwelling by Paules Wharfe. A nice edition is currently available on Amazon - Batman upon Bartholme: His Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum (Anglistica & Americana) (Latin and English Edition) Although this author was known by both Bateman and Batman, the latter was the more common spelling during the Elizabethan period.
Stephen or Stephan Batman or Bateman (d 1584) was an English translator & author. In this Herbal, Church of England clergyman, author, limner, & antiquarian, Stephen Batman comments upon Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s 13C encyclopedia, De Proprietatibus Rerum (extracted earlier in this volume) in his Batman upon Bartholomew.
Batman was born at Bruton, Somerset and, after a preliminary education in the school of his native town, went to Cambridge, where he had the reputation of being a learned man & an excellent preacher. Bateman in 1534 took the degree of LL.B., being at that time a priest & a student of 6 years' standing.
Afterwards Archbishop Parker selected him as one of his domestic chaplains, & employed him in the collection of the library now deposited in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Batman asserts that he collected 6,700 books for the archbishop, though this is probably an exaggeration. In 1573 he was rector of Merstham, Surrey. He was also Doctor of Divinity & parson of Newington Butts in the same county. In 1582, he was one of the domestic chaplains of Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon. He resided for some time at Leeds, Kent. His died in 1584.
