1ST See also:EARL OF See also:ROGER See also:BOYLE See also:ORRERY (1621-1679)
, See also:British soldier, statesman and' dramatist, 3rd surviving son of See also:Richard See also:Boyle, 1st See also:earl of See also:Cork, was See also:born on the 25th of See also:April 1621, created See also:baron of Broghill on the 28th of See also:February 1627, and educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, and, according to See also:Wood,
2 The See also:orrery, an astronomical See also:instrument—consisting of an apparatus which illustrates the motions of the See also:solar See also:system by means of the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork—invented. or at least constructed, by See also:Graham, was named after the earl
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also 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
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He travelled in See also:France and See also:Italy, and coming See also:home took See also:part in the expedition against the Scots
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He returned to See also:Ireland on the outbreak of the See also:rebellion in 1641 and fought with his See also:brothers at the See also:battle of Liscarrol in See also:September 1642
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On the resignation of the See also:marquis of See also:Ormonde, See also:Lord Broghill consented to serve under the See also:parliamentary commissioners till the See also:execution of 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, when he retired altogether from public affairs and took up his See also:residence at See also:Marston in See also:Somersetshire
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Subsequently he originated a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme to bring about the Restoration, but when on his way abroad to See also:concert See also:measures with See also:Charles he was unexpectedly visited by See also:Cromwell in See also:London, who, after informing him that his plans were well known to the See also:council, and warning him of the consequence of persisting in them, offered him a command in Ireland against the rebels, which, as it entailed no obligations except faithful service, was accepted
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His assistance in Ireland proved invaluable
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Appointed See also:master of the See also:ordnance, he soon assembled a See also:body of See also:infantry and See also:horse, and drove the rebels into See also:Kilkenny, where they surrendered
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On the loth of May 165o he completely defeated at See also:Macroom a force of Irish advancing to the See also:relief of Clonmell, and joining Cromwell assisted in taking the latter See also:place
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On Cromwell's departure for See also:Scotland he co-operated with See also:Ireton, whom he joined at the See also:siege of See also:Limerick, and defeated the force marching to its relief under Lord Muskerry, thus effecting the See also:capture of the See also:town
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By this 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 Broghill had become the fast friend and follower of Cromwell, whose stern measures in Ireland and sup-See also:port of the See also:English and Protestants were welcomed after the policy of concession to the Irish initiated by Charles I
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He was returned to Cromwell's parliaments of 1654 and 1656 as member for the See also:county of Cork, and also in the latter See also:assembly for See also:Edinburgh, for which he elected to sit
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He served this See also:year as lord See also:president of the council in Scotland, where he won much popularity; and when he returned to See also:England he was included in the inner See also:cabinet of Cromwell's council, and was nominated in 1657 a member of the new See also:house of Lords
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He was one of those most in favour of Cromwell's See also:assumption of the royal See also:title, and proposed a See also:union between the See also:Protector's daughter Frances and Charles II
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On Cromwell's See also:death he gave his support to Richard; but as he saw no possibility of maintaining the See also:government he See also:left for Ireland, where by resuming his command in See also:Munster he secured the See also:island for Charles and anticipated See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
Monk's overtures by inviting him to See also:land at Cork
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He sat for See also:Arundel in the See also:Convention and in the See also:parliament of 1661, and at the Restoration was taken into See also:great favour
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On the 5th of September 166o he was created earl of Orrery
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The same year he was appointed a lord See also:justice of Ireland and See also:drew up the See also:Act of See also:Settlement
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He continued to exercise his 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 as lord-president of Munster till 1668, when he resigned it on See also:account of disputes with the See also:duke of Ormonde, the lord-See also:lieutenant
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On the 25th of See also:November he was impeached by the House of See also:Commons for " raising of See also:money by his own authority upon his See also:majesty's subjects," but the See also:prorogation of parliament by the king interrupted the proceedings, which were not afterwards renewed
.
He died on the 26th of See also:October 1679
.
He married See also:Lady See also:Margaret See also:Howard, 3rd daughter of See also:Theophilus, 2nd earl of See also:Suffolk, whose charms were celebrated by Suckling in his poem " The See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
Bride." By her he had besides five daughters, two sons, of whom the eldest, See also:Roger (1646–1681 or 1682), succeeded as 2nd earl of Orrery
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In addition to Lord Orrery's achievements as a statesman and See also:administrator, he gained some reputation as a writer and a dramatist
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He was the author of An See also:Answer to a Scandalous See also:Letter
.
.
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A Full See also:Discovery of the Treachery of the Irish Rebels (1662), printed with the letter itself in his See also:State Letters (1742), another answer to the same letter entitled Irish See also:Colours Displayed
.
. being also ascribed to him; Parthenissa, a novel (1654); English
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Adventures by a See also:Person of See also:Honour (1676), whence See also:Otway drew his tragedy of the See also:Orphan; See also:Treatise of the See also:Art of See also:War (1677), a See also:work of considerable See also:historical value; poems, of little See also:interest, including verses On His Majesty's Happy Restoration (unprinted), On the Death of See also:Abraham See also:Cowley (1677), The See also:Dream (unprinted), Poems on most of the Festivals of the 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 (1681) ; plays in See also:verse, of some See also:literary but -no dramatic merit, of which 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 V
.
(1664), Mustapha (1665), Tryphon (acted 1668), The See also:Black See also:Prince (1669), See also:Herod the Great (published 1694), and Altemira (1702) were tragedies, and Guzman (1669) and Mr Anthonycomedies
.
A collected edition was published in 1737, to which was added the See also:comedy As you find it
.
The See also:General is also attributed to him
.
ORRIS-See also:ROOT (apparently a corruption of "See also:iris root "), the rhizomes or underground stems of three See also:species of Iris, I. germanica, I. florentina and I. pallida, closely allied See also:plants growing in subtropical and temperate latitudes, but principally identified with See also:North Italy
.
The three plants are indiscriminately cultivated in the neighbourhood of See also:Florence as an agricultural product under the name of " ghiaggiuolo." The rhizomes are in See also:August dug up and freed of the rootlets and See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown See also:outer bark; they are then dried and packed in casks for See also:sale
.
In drying they acquire a delicate but distinct odour of violets
.
As it comes into the See also:market, orris-root is in the See also:form of contorted sticks and irregular knobby pieces up to 4 in. in length, of a compact chalky See also:appearance
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It is principally powdered for use in dentifrices and other scented dry preparations
.
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