Thomas Hudson, was a musician and poet from the north of England present at the Scottish

Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland was a Sovereign state in North-West Europe that existed from 843 until 1707. It occupied the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shared a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England...

 court of King James VI at the end of the 16th century. Both he and his brother Robert Hudson were members of the Castalian Band

Castalian Band

The Castalian Band was a group of Scottish Jacobean poets, or makars, which flourished between the 1580s and early 1590s in the court of James VI and was consciously modelled on the French example of the Pléiade. Its name is derived from the classical term Castalian Spring, a symbol for poetic...

, a group of court poets and musicians headed by the King in the 1580s and 90s.

In 1584 Thomas Hudson translated Judith by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas was a French poet. A Huguenot, he served under Henry of Navarre. He is known as an epic poet. La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde was a hugely influential hexameral work, relating the creation of the world and the history of man...

, an account of the biblical character written at the command of Jeanne III of Navarre

Jeanne III of Navarre

Jeanne d'Albret , also known as Jeanne III or Joan III, was the queen regnant of Navarre from 1555 to 1572. She married Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, and was the mother of Henry of Bourbon, who became King of Navarre and of France as Henry IV, the first Bourbon king...

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