See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM See also:

• HONE (in O. Eng. han, cognate with Swed. hen ; the root appears in Skt. gdna, co to sharpen)
• HONE, NATHANIEL (1718-1784)
• WILLIAM HONE (1780-1842)

HONE (1780-1842)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English writer and bookseller, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BATH
• BATH, THOMAS THYNNE
• BATH, WILLIAM

Bath on the 3rd of See also:

• JUNE

June 1780 . His See also:

• FATHER

father brought up his See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children with the sectarian narrowness that so frequently produces reaction . See also:

• HONE (in O. Eng. han, cognate with Swed. hen ; the root appears in Skt. gdna, co to sharpen)
• HONE, NATHANIEL (1718-1784)
• HONE, WILLIAM (1780-1842)

Hone received no systematic See also:

• EDUCATION

education, and was taught to read from the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible only . His father having removed to See also:

• LONDON

London in 1783, he was in 1790 placed in an See also:

• ATTORNEY (from O. Fr. atorne, a person appointed to act for another, from atourner, legal Lat. attornare, attorn, literally to turn over to another or commit business to another)

attorney's See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office . After two and a See also:

• HALF

half years spent in the office of a See also:

• SOLICITOR

solicitor at See also:

• CHATHAM
• CHATHAM, WILLIAM PITT

Chatham he returned to London to become clerk to a solicitor in See also:

• GRAY
• GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
• GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
• GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
• GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
• GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
• GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
• GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
• GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
• GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
• GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
• GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
• GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)

Gray's See also:

• INN

Inn . But he disliked the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, and had already acquired a See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste for See also:

• FREE

free-thought and See also:

• POLITICAL

political agitation . Hone married is 1800, and started a See also:

• BOOK

book and See also:

• PRINT

print See also:

• SHOP

shop with a circulating library in See also:

• LAMBETH

Lambeth Walk . He soon removed to St See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

Martin's See also:

• CHURCHYARD
• CHURCHYARD, THOMAS (c. 152o-16o4)

Churchyard, where he brought out his first publication, See also:

• SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD (1856– )
• SHAW, HENRY WHEELER (1818–1885)
• SHAW, LEMUEL (1781–1861)
• SHAW, RICHARD NORMAN (1831– )

Shaw's Gardener (18o6) . It was at this See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time that he and his friend, See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
• BONE, HENRY (1755-1834)

Bone, tried to realize a See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

plan for the See also:

• ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of popular savings See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks, and even had an interview on the subject with the See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

Board of See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

Trade . This See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme, however, failed . Bone joined him next in a bookseller's business; but Hone's habits were not those of a tradesman, and See also:

• BANKRUPTCY (from Lat. bancus or Fr. banquet table or counter, and Lat. ruptus, broken)

bankruptcy was the result . He was in 1811 chosen by the booksellers as auctioneer to the trade, and had an office in See also:

• IVY (A.S. ifig, Ger. Epheu, perhaps connected with apium, anent)

Ivy See also:

• LANE, EDWARD WILLIAM (1801–1876)
• LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)

Lane .

See also:

• INDEPENDENT

Independent investigations carried on by him into the See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of lunatic asylums led again to business difficulties and failure, but he took a small lodging in the Old See also:

• BAILEY (said to be a corruption of Ballium by some, and derived by others from the Fr. baille, a corruption of bataille, because there the soldiers were drilled in battle array)
• BAILEY, NATHAN
• BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES (1816-1902)
• BAILEY, SAMUEL (1791-1870)

Bailey, keeping himself and his now large See also:

• FAMILY

family by contributions to magazines and reviews . He hired a small shop, or rather See also:

• BOX
• BOX (Gr. irl or, Lat. buxus, box-wood; cf. 2r6Eir, a pyx)

box, in See also:

• FLEET

Fleet See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

Street but this was on two See also:

• SEPARATE

separate nights broken into, and valuable books See also:

• LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")

lent for show were stolen . In 1815 he started the Traveller newspaper, and endeavoured vainly to exculpate Eliza Fenning, a poor girl, apparently quite guiltless, who was executed on a See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of poisoning . From See also:

• FEBRUARY

February r to See also:

• OCTOBER

October 25, 1817, he published the Reformer's See also:

• REGISTER

Register, See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing in it as the serious critic of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state abuses, which he soon after attacked in the famous political squibs and parodies, illustrated by See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE (1792–1878)

Cruikshank . In See also:

• APRIL

April 1817 three ex-officio informations were filed against him by the attorney-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general, See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William Garrow . Three separate trials took See also:

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

place in the See also:

• GUILDHALL

Guildhall before See also:

• SPECIAL

special juries on the 18th, 19th and loth of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1817 . The first, for See also:

• PUBLISHING

publishing Wilkes's See also:

• CATECHISM (from Gr. Karnxeiv, teach by word of mouth)

Catechism of a Ministerial Member (1817), was before Mr See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

Justice See also:

• ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
• ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
• ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
• ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
• ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)

Abbot (afterwards See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• TENTERDEN
• TENTERDEN, CHARLES ABBOTT

Tenterden) ; the second, for parodying the See also:

• LITANY

litany and libelling the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince See also:

• REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

regent, and the third, for publishing the Sinecurist's Creed (1817), a See also:

• PARODY (Gr. s-apybia, literally a song sung beside, a comic parallel)

parody on the Athanasian creed, were before Lord See also:

• ELLENBOROUGH, EDWARD LAW, 1ST BARON (1750-1818)
• ELLENBOROUGH, EDWARD LAW, EARL OF (1790-1871)

Ellenborough (q.v.) . The See also:

• PROSECUTION

prosecution took the ground that the prints were calculated to injure public morals, and to bring the See also:

• PRAYER (from Lat. precari, entreat; Ital. pregaria, Fr. priere)
• PRAYER, BOOK OF COMMON

prayer-book and even See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion itself into contempt . But there can be no doubt that the real motives of the prosecution werepolitical; Hone had ridiculed the habits and exposed the corruption of the prince regent and of other persons in See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power . He went to the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root of the See also:

• MATTER

matter when he wished the See also:

• JURY

jury " to understand that, had he been a publisher of ministerial parodies, he would not then have been defending himself on the See also:

• FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor of that See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court." In spite of illness and exhaustion Hone displayed See also:

• GREAT

great courage and ability, speaking on each of the three days for about seven See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours . Although his See also:

• JUDGES, THE BOOK OF

judges were biassed against him he was acquitted on each See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count, and the result was received with enthusiastic cheers by immense crowds within and without the court . Soon after the trials a subscription was begun which enabled Hone to get over the difficulties caused by his prosecution .

Among Hone's most successful political satires were The Political See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House that See also:

• JACK

Jack built (1819), The See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen's Matrimonial See also:

• LADDER, (0. Eng. hlaeder; of Teutonic origin, cf. Dutch leer, Ger. Leiter; the ultimate origin is in the root seen in " lean," Or. KNiµat)

Ladder (182o), in favour of Queen See also:

• CAROLINE
• CAROLINE (1683-1737)

Caroline, The See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

Man in the See also:

• MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
• MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)

Moon (182o), The Political Showman (1821), all illustrated by Cruikshank . Many of his squibs are directed against a certain " Dr Slop," a See also:

• NICKNAME

nickname given by him to Dr (afterwards Sir John) Stoddart, of The Times . In researches for his See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence he had come upon some curious and at that time little trodden See also:

• LITERARY

literary ground, and the results were shown by his publication in 182o of his Apocryphal New Testament, and in 1823 of his See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

Ancient Mysteries Explained . In 1826 he published the Every-See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day Book, in 1827—1828 the Table-Book, and in 1829 the See also:

• YEAR

Year-Book ; all three were collections of curious See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information on See also:

• MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners, antiquities and various other subjects . These are the See also:

• WORKS

works by which Hone is best remembered . In preparing them he had the approval of See also:

• SOUTHEY, ROBERT (1774-1843)

Southey and the assistance of See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• LAMB (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Lamm)
• LAMB, CHARLES (1775–1834)

Lamb, but pecuniarily they were not successful, and Hone was lodged in See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King's See also:

• BENCH (an O.E. and Eng. form of a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Bank, Dan. baenk and the Eng. doublet " bank ")

Bench See also:

• PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison for See also:

• DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt . See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

Friends, however, again came to his assistance, and he was established in a See also:

• COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee-house in Gracechurch Street; but this, like most of his enterprises, ended in failure . Hone's attitude of mind had gradually changed to that of extreme devoutness, and during the latter years of his See also:

• LIFE

life he frequently preached in Weigh House See also:

• CHAPEL

Chapel, Eastcheap . In 1830 he edited See also:

• STRUTT, JEDEDIAH (1726-1797)

Strutt's See also:

• SPORTS
• SPORTS, THE BOOK OF

Sports and Pastimes, and he contributed to the first number of the See also:

• PENNY (Mid. Eng. peni or peny, from O. Eng. form penig, earlier penning and pending; the word appears in Ger. Pfennig and Du. penning; it has been connected with Du. pand, Ger. Pfand, and Eng. " pawn,". the word meaning a little pledge or token, or with G
• PENNY, GIANFRANCESCO (1488–1528)

Penny See also:

• MAGAZINE

Magazine . He was also for some years sub-editor of the Patriot . He died at See also:

• TOTTENHAM

Tottenham on the 6th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1842 .