JASPER MAYNE (1604-1672)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V17,
Page 936
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
JASPER MAYNE (1604-1672)
, English author, was baptized at Hatherleigh, Devonshire, on the 23rd of November 1604
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He was educated at Westminster School and at Christ 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)
, 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
, where he had a distinguished career
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He was presented to two college livings in Oxfordshire, and was made D.D. in 1646
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During the Commonwealth he was dispossessed,' and became chaplain to the duke of Devonshire
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At the Restoration he was made canon of Christ Church, archdeacon of Chichester and chaplain in ordinary to 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)
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He wrote a farcical domestic comedy, The City Match (1639), which is reprinted in vol. xiii. of Hazlitt's edition of Dodsley's Old Plays, and a fantastic tragi-comedy entitled The Amorous War (printed 1648)
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After receiving ecclesiastical preferment he gave up poetry as unbefitting his profession
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His other works comprise some occasional gems, a translation of Lucian's Dialogues (printed 1664) and a number of sermons
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He died on the 6th of December 1672 at Oxford
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