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RICHARD KNOLLES (c. 1545-1610)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 869 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD See also:KNOLLES (c. 1545-1610)  , See also:English historian, was a native of See also:Northamptonshire, and was educated at See also:Lincoln See also:College, See also:Oxford . He became a See also:fellow of his college, and at some date subsequent to 1571 See also:left Oxford to become See also:master of a school at See also:Sandwich, See also:Kent, where he died in 161o . In 1603 See also:Knolles published his Generall Historie of the Turkes, of which several See also:editions subsequently appeared, among them a See also:good one edited by See also:Sir See also:Paul Rycaut (1700), who brought the See also:history down to 1699 . It was dedicated to See also:King See also:James I., and Knolles availed himself largely of See also:Jean Jacques See also:Boissard's Vitae et hones Sultanorum Turcicorum (See also:Frankfort, 1596) . Although now entirely superseded, it has considerable merits as regards See also:style and arrangement . Knolles published a See also:translation of J . See also:Bodin's De Republica in 1606, but the Grammatica See also:Latina, Graeca et Hebraica, attributed to him by See also:Anthony See also:Wood and others, is the See also:work of the Rev . Hanserd See also:Knollys (c . 1599-1691), a Baptist See also:minister . See the See also:Athenaeum, See also:August 6, 1881 .

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