Peter Ashton (translator)
Peter Ashton, was a translator.
Ashton translated into English, in 1546, the Turcicarum rerum Commentarius of Paulus Jovius, under the title of
In the dedicatory epistle to Sir Rafe Sadler the translator informs us that he has "studyed rather to use the most playn and famylier English speche the ether Chaucers wordes or els inkhorn termes which the common people for lacke of Latin do not understand."
