OSBERN See also:

• OSBERN BOKENAM (1393?-1447?)

BOKENAM (1393?-1447?)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born, by his own See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account, on the 6th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1393 . Dr Horstmann suggests that he may have been a native of Bokeham, now Bookham, in See also:

• SURREY
• SURREY, EARLDOM OF
• SURREY, HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF (1518?-1547)

Surrey, and derived his name from the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . In a concluding See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note to his Lives of the See also:

• SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

Saints he is described as " a Suffolke See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, See also:

• FRERE, JOHN HOOKHAM (1769-1846)
• FRERE, PIERRE EDOUARD (1819-1886)
• FRERE, SIR HENRY BARTLE EDWARD (1815-1884)

frere Austyn of Stoke See also:

• CLARE
• CLARE, JOHN (1793-1864)
• CLARE, JOHN FITZGIBBON, 1ST EARL OF (1749-1802)

Clare." He travelled in See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy on at least two occasions, and in 1445 was a See also:

• PILGRIM

pilgrim to See also:

• SANTIAGO, or SANTIAGO DE CHILE

Santiago de Compostela . He wrote a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of thirteen legends of See also:

• HOLY

holy maidens and See also:

• WOMEN

women . These are written chiefly in seven-and eight-lined stanzas, and nine of them are preceded by prologues . See also:

• BOKENAM, OSBERN (1393?-1447?)

Bokenam was a follower of See also:

• CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (? 1340-1400)

Chaucer and See also:

• LYDGATE, JOHN (c. 1370–c. 1451)

Lydgate, and doubtless had in mind Chaucer's See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

Legend of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good Women . His See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief, but by no means his only, source was the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of See also:

• GENOA (anc. Genua, Ital. Genova, Fr. GPnes)

Genoa, whom he cites as " Januence." The first of the legends, Vita Scae Margaretae, virginis et martinis, was written for his friend, See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• BURGH [BOURKE, BURKE]
• BURGH, HUBERT DE (d. 1243)

Burgh, a See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge See also:

• MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
• MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
• MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
• MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)

monk; others are dedicated to pious ladies who desired the See also:

• HISTORY

history of their name-saints . The See also:

• ARUNDEL
• ARUNDEL, EARLDOM OF
• ARUNDEL, EARLS OF
• ARUNDEL, THOMAS (1353-1414)

Arundel MS . 327 (See also:

• BRITISH

British Museum) is a unique copy of Bokenam's See also:

• WORK

work; it was finished, according to the concluding note, in 1447, and presented by the See also:

• SCRIBE, AUGUSTIN EUGENE (1791-1860, French dramatist, was born in Paris on the 24th of December 1791. His father was a silk merchant, and he was well educated, being destined for the bar. But, having a real gift for the theatre, a gift which unfortunately

scribe, Thomas Burgh, to a See also:

• CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent unnamed " that the nuns may remember him and his See also:

• SISTER

sister, See also:

• DAME
• DAME (through the Fr. from Lat. domina, mistress, lady, the feminine of dominus, master, lord)

Dame Betrice Burgh." The poems were edited (1835) for the See also:

• ROXBURGHE, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Roxburghe See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club with the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Lyvys of Seyntys ..., and by Dr Carl Horstmann as Osbern Bokenams Legenden (See also:

• HEILBRONN

Heilbronn, 1883), in E . Kolbing's Altengl . Bibliothek, vol. i . Both See also:

• EDITIONS

editions include a See also:

• DIALOGUE

dialogue written in Latin and English taken from See also:

• DUGDALE, SIR WILLIAM (16o5-1686)

Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum (ed .

1846, vol. vi. p . 1600); " this dialogue betwixt a See also:

• SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

Secular asking and a Frere answerynge at the See also:

• GRAVE

grave of Dame Johan of Acres shewith the lyneal descent of the lordis of the honoure of Clare fro . . . MCCXLVIII to . . . MCCCLVI" Bokenam wrote, as he tells us, plainly, in the See also:

• SUFFOLK
• SUFFOLK, CHARLES BRANDON, 1ST DUKE OF (c. 1484–'545)
• SUFFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• SUFFOLK, THOMAS HOWARD, 1ST EARL OF (1561-1626)
• SUFFOLK, WILLIAM DE LA POLE

Suffolk speech . He explains his lack of decoration on the plea that the finest See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers had been already plucked by Chaucer, See also:

• GOWER
• GOWER, JOHN (d. 1408)

Gower and Lydgate .