GERVASE See also:MARKHAM (or JERVIS) (1568?-1637)
, See also:English poet and See also:miscellaneous writer, third son of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Markham of Cotham, See also:Nottinghamshire, was See also:born probably in 1568
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He was a soldier of See also:fortune in the See also:Low Countries, and later was a See also:captain under the See also:earl of See also:Essex's command in See also:Ireland
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He was acquainted with Latin and several See also:modern See also:languages, and had an exhaustive See also:practical acquaintance with the arts of forestry and See also:agriculture
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He was a noted See also:horse-breeder, and is said to have imported the first Arab
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Very little is known of the events of his See also:life
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The See also:story of the murderous See also:quarrel between Gervase Markham and Sir See also:John Holies related in the Biographia Britannica (s.v
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Holies) has been generally connected with him, but in the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography, Sir Clements R
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Markham, a descendant from the same See also:family, refers it to another contemporary of the same name, whose See also:monument is still to be seen in Laneham 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
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Gervase Markham was buried at St See also:Giles's, Cripplegate, See also:London, on the 3rd of See also:February 1637
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He was a voluminous writer on many subjects, but he repeated himself considerably in his See also:works, sometimes reprinting the same books under other titles
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His booksellers procured a See also:declaration from him in 1617 that he would produce no more on certain topics
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Markham's writings include: The Teares of the Beloved (1600) and See also:Marie Magdalene's Teares (16o1) See also:long and rather See also:commonplace poems on the See also:Passion and Resurrection of See also:Christ, both reprinted by Dr A
.
B
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See also:Grosart in the Miscellanies of the See also:Fuller Worthies Library (1871); The most Honorable Tragedy of Sir See also:Richard Grinvile (1595), reprinted (1871) by See also:Professor E
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See also:Arber, a prolix and euphuistic poem in eight-lined stanzas which was no doubt in See also:Tennyson's mind when he wrote his stirring ballad; The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse (1595), dedicated to See also:Elizabeth, daughter of Sir See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Sidney; Devoreux, Vertues Teares (1597)
.
See also:Herod and See also:Antipater, a Tragedy (1622) was written in See also:conjunction with 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:Sampson, and with See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Machin he wrote a See also:comedy called The Dumbe See also:Knight (,6o8)
.
A Discourse of Horsemanshippe (1593) was followed by other popular See also:treatises on See also:horsemanship and farriery
.
See also:Honour in his Perfection (1624) is in praise of the earls of 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, See also:Southampton and Essex, and the Souldier's See also:Accidence (1625) turns his military experiences to See also:account
.
He edited Juliana See also:Berners's Boke of See also:Saint Albans under the See also:title of The See also:Gentleman's Academie (1595), and produced numerous books on husbandry, many of which are catalogued in See also:Lowndes's Bibliographer's See also:Manual (See also:Bohn's ed., 1857–1864)
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