See also:MERBECK (or MARBECK), See also:JOHN (d. c. 1585)
, See also:English theological writer and musician; was organist of St See also:George's, See also:Windsor, about 1540
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Four years later he was convicted of See also:heresy and sentenced to the stake, but received a See also:pardon owing to the intervention of See also:Gardiner, See also:bishop of See also:Winchester, though Gardiner had himself censured See also:Merbeck for compiling an English See also:Concordance of the See also:Bible
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This See also:work, the first of its See also:kind in English, was published in 1550 with a See also:dedication to See also:Edward VI
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In the same See also:year Merbeck published his annotated See also:Book of See also:Common See also:Prayer, intended to provide for musical uniformity in the use of the First Prayer Book of Edward VI., which was several times reprinted in the 19th See also:century
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Merbeck wrote several devotional and controversial See also:works of a strongly Calvinistic See also:character, and a number of his musical compositions are preserved in See also:manuscript in the See also:British Museum, and at 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 See also:Cambridge
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He died, probably while still organist at Windsor, about 1585
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His son, See also:ROGER MERBECK (1536-16o5), a noted classical See also:scholar, was appointed public orator in the university of Oxford in 1564, and in 1565 became a See also:canon of See also: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)
Church and was elected See also:provost of See also:Oriel; he See also:left Oxford on See also:account of an unfortunate See also:marriage, and took to See also:medicine as a profession, becoming the first registrar of the See also:College of Physicians in See also:London, and See also:chief physician to See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth
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