See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:HOWELL (c. 1594-1666)
, See also:British author, who came of an old Welsh See also:family, was See also:born probably at Abernant, in See also:Carmarthenshire, where his See also:father was See also:rector
.
From the See also:free See also:grammar school at See also:Hereford he went to Jesus See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and took his degree of B.A. in 1613
.
About 1616 he was steward in See also:Sir See also:Robert Mansell's See also:glass-See also:works in Broad See also:Street, and was commissioned to go abroad to procure the services of See also:expert
workmen
.
It was not till 1622 that he returned, having visited See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, See also:France, See also:Spain and See also:Italy
.
With the intention of utilizing to better purpose his knowledge of See also:continental See also:languages and methods, he See also:left the glass business and applied for a See also:diplomatic See also:post
.
Failing to obtain this, he was for a See also:short 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 See also:tutor in a nobleman's family
.
At the See also:close of 1622 he was sent on a See also:special See also:mission to See also:Madrid to obtain redress for the seizure of an See also:English See also:vessel, but, owing to the presence at the See also:Spanish See also:court of See also:Prince See also:Charles and the See also:duke of See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham to arrange a See also:marriage between the prince and the infanta of Spain, the negotiations had to be broken off
.
He made many See also:friends among the prince's See also:retinue, and, after his return in 1624, applied for employment to the duke of Buckingham, but without success
.
In 1626 he became secretary to See also:Lord See also:Scrope, Lord See also:President of the See also:North at See also:York, and retained the 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 under Scrope's successor, 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:Wentworth
.
In 1627 he was elected M.P. for See also:Richmond; in 1632 he was sent as secretary to the See also:embassy of the See also:earl of See also:Leicester to See also:Denmark; and in 1642 the 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 appointed him one of the clerks of the privy See also:council
.
In 1643 he was committed to the See also:Fleet See also:prison by the See also:parliament, according to his own See also:account, on suspicion of royalist leanings, or, as See also:Anthony a See also:Wood says, for See also:debt
.
Whatever the See also:reason, he remained in prison until 1651
.
He had acquired considerable fame by his allegorical AevSpaayla: See also:Dodona's See also:Grove, or the Vocall See also:Forest, published in 164o, and his Instructions for Forreine Travell (1642), which has been described as the first continental handbook; and now he was driven to maintain himself by his See also:pen
.
He edited and supplemented (165o) See also:Cotgrave's See also:French and English See also:dictionary, compiled See also:Lexicon Tetraglotton, or an English, French, See also:Italian and Spanish Dictionary (See also:London, 166o), translated various works from Italian and Spanish, wrote a See also:life of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIII. and issued a number of See also:political See also:pamphlets, varying the point of view somewhat to suit the changes of the time
.
Among these tracts may be mentioned a rather malicious Perfect Description of the See also:People and See also:Country of See also:Scotland, which was revived by See also:John Wilkes and printed in the North Briton during the agitation directed against Lord See also:Bute
.
In 166o he asked for the See also:place of clerk of the privy council; and, though this was not granted' him, the post of historiographer royal was created for him
.
In 1661 he applied for the office of tutor in See also:foreign languages to the infanta See also:Catherine of See also:Braganza, and in 1662 published an English Grammar translated into Spanish
.
He was buried in the See also:Temple See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church on the 3rd of See also:November 1666, having realized to the last his favourite See also:motto, " Senesco non segnesco."
All See also:Howell's writings are imbued with a certain simplicity and quaintness
.
His elaborate allegories are forgotten; his linguistic labours, of value in their time, are now superseded; but his Letters, the Epistolae Ho-elianae (four volumes issued in 1645, 1647, 165o and 1655), are still See also:models of their See also:kind
.
Their See also:dates are often fictitious, and they are, in nearly every See also:case, evidently written for publication
.
See also:Thackeray said that the Letters was one of his bedside books
.
He classes it with See also:Montaigne and says he scarcely ever tired of " the artless prattle " of the " priggish little clerk of King Charles's council."
The Epistolae have been frequently edited, notably by J
.
See also:Jacobs in 189o, with a commentary (1891), and See also:Agnes Repplier (1907)
.
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