Thomas Bedingfield, gentleman pensioner to Queen Elizabeth, was
son of Sir Henry Bedingfield (d. 1583). He published in 1573 Cardanus
Comforte. There is a dedication to the Earl of Oxford, dated
1 Jan. 1571-2, which is followed by a letter to the translator,
and a copy of verses to the reader, both written by the Earl of
Oxford; and to these succeed addresses to the reader in prose
and verse by Thomas Churchyard. In 1584 Bedingfield published
The Art of Riding by Claudio Corte; and this was followed
in 1595 by The Florentine Histories written in the Italian
tongue by Niccolo Macchiavelli. Bedingfield died in 1613.
(Stow's Survey of London, ed. 1720, ii. 65)