IST See also:EARL OF See also:DORSET See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:SACKVILLE (c. 1530-1608)
,
See also:English statesman and poet, son of See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Sackville and
his wife Winifrede, daughter of Sir See also:John See also:Bruges or
See also:Bridges, See also:lord See also:mayor of See also:London, was See also:born at Buckhurst,
in the See also:parish of Withyham, See also:Sussex
.
In his fifteenth
or sixteenth See also:year he is said to have been entered at See also:Hart See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall,
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; but it was at See also:Cambridge that he completed his studies
and took the degree of M.A
.
He joined the Inner See also:Temple, and
was called to the See also:bar
.
He married at the See also:age of eighteen See also:Cicely,
daughter of Sir John See also:Baker of Sissinghurst, See also:Kent; in 1558 he
entered See also:parliament as member for See also:Westmorland, in 1559 he
sat for See also:East Grinstead, Sussex, and in 1563 for See also:Aylesbury in
See also:Buckinghamshire
.
A visit to the See also:continent in 1565 was in-
terrupted by an imprisonment at See also:Rome, caused by a rash
See also:declaration of See also:Protestant opinions
.
The See also:news of his See also:father's
See also:death on the 21st of See also:April 1566 recalled him to See also:England
.
On his
return he was knighted in the See also:queen's presence, receiving at the
same 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 the See also:title of See also:baron of Buckhurst
.
With his See also:mother he
lived at the queen's See also:palace of Sheen, where he entertained in 1568
Odet de Coligni, See also:cardinal de See also:Chatillon
.
In 1571 he was sent
to See also:France to congratulate See also:Charles IX. on his See also:marriage with
See also:Elizabeth of See also:Austria, and he took See also:part in the negotiations for
the projected marriage of Elizabeth with the See also:duke of See also:Anjou
.
He
became a member of the privy See also:council, and acted as a com-
missioner at the See also:state trials
.
In 1572 he was one of the peers
who tried See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Howard, duke of See also:Norfolk, and in 1586 he was
selected to convey the See also:sentence of death to See also:Mary, queen of Scots,
a task he is said to have performed with See also:great See also:consideration
.
He
was sent in 1587 as See also:ambassador to the See also:Hague "to expostulate in
favour of See also:peace with a See also:people who knew that their existence
depended on See also:war, to reconcile those to delay who See also:felt that delay
was death, and to heal animosities between men who were
enemies from their cradles to their See also:graves."' This task was
further complicated by the See also:parsimony and See also:prevarication of
' J
.
L
.
See also:Motley, Hist. of the See also:United See also:Netherlands (vol. ii. p
.
216, ed
.
1867)
.
Elizabeth
.
Buckhurst carried out under protest the foolish and often contradictory orders he received
.
His See also:plain speaking on the subject of See also:Leicester's See also:action in the Netherlands displeased the queen still more
.
She accused him on his return of having followed his instructions too slavishly, and ordered him to keep to his own See also:house for nine months
.
His disgrace was See also:short, for in 1588 he was presented with the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the Garter, and was sent again to the Netherlands in 1589 and 1598
.
He was elected See also:chancellor of the university of Oxford in 1591, and in 1599 he succeeded Lord See also:Burghley as lord high treasurer of England
.
In 16or as high steward he pronounced sentence on See also:Essex, who had been his See also:rival for the chancellorship and his opponent in politics
.
See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. confirmed him in the 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 of lord treasurer, the duties of which he performed with the greatest impartiality
.
He was created See also:earl of See also:Dorset in 1604, and died suddenly on the 19th of April ,6o8, as he was sitting at the council table at See also:Whitehall
.
His eldest son, See also:Robert, the 2nd earl (1561–1609), was a member of parliament and a See also:man of great learning
.
Two other sons were 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 (c
.
,568–1591), a soldier who was killed in the service of 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 IV. of France, and Thomas (1571–1646), also a soldier
.
It is not by his See also:political career, distinguished as it was, that Sackville is remembered, but by his See also:share in See also:early See also:life in two See also:works, each of which was, in its way, a new departure in English literature
.
In A Myrroure for Magistrates, printed by Thomas Marshe in 1559, he has sometimes been erroneously credited with the inception of the See also:general See also:plan as well as with the most valuable contributions
.
But there had been an earlier edition, for the editor, William See also:Baldwin, states in his See also:preface that the See also:work was begun and partly printed " four years agone." He also says that the printer (John See also:Wayland) had designed the work as a continuation of See also:Lydgate's Fall of Princes derived from the narrative of Bochas
.
Fragments of this early edition are extant, the title See also:page being sometimes found See also:bound up with Lydgate's See also:book
.
It runs A Memoriall of such princes, as since the tyme of Richard the seconde, have been unfortunate in the realme of England, while the 1559 edition has the See also:running title A briefe memorial of unfortunate Englysh princes
.
The disconnected poems by various authors were given a certain continuity by the See also:simple See also:device of allowing the See also:ghost of each unfortunate See also:hero " to bewail unto me [Baldwin] his grievous chances, heavy destinies and woefull misfortunes." After a delay caused by an examination by See also:Stephen See also:Gardiner, See also:bishop of See also:Worcester, the book appeared
.
It contained nineteen tragic legends by six poets, William Baldwin, See also:George See also:Ferrers, " See also:Master " Cavyll, Thomas See also:Chaloner, Thomas See also:Phaer and John See also:Skelton
.
In 1563 appeared a second edition with eight additional poems by William Baldwin, John See also:Dolman, Sackville, See also:Francis Segar, Thomas See also:Churchyard and Cavyll
.
Sackville contributed the Complaint of Henry See also:Stafford, duke of See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham, to which he prefixed an See also:Induction
.
This was evidently designed as an introduction to a version of the whole work, and, being arbitrarily transposed (161o) to the beginning by a later editor, Richard Niccols, led to the attribution of the general See also:design to Sackville, an See also:error which was repeated by Thomas See also:Warton
.
The originators were certainly Baldwin and his " printer." In 1574 Thomas Marshe printed a See also:series of new tragedies by John See also:Higgins as the Firste parte of the Mirour for Magistrates
.
.
.
. From tke coming of See also:Brute to the Incarnation
.
The seventh edition (1578) contained for the first time the two tragedies of Eleanor See also:Cobham and See also:Humphrey duke of See also:Gloucester
.
In 1587, when the See also:original editor was dead, the two quite See also:separate publications of Baldwin and Higgins were combined
.
The See also:primary See also:object of this earliest of English miscellanies was didactic
.
It was to be a See also:kind of See also:text-book of See also:British See also:history, illustrating the evils of ambition
.
The writers pretended to See also:historical accuracy, but with the notable exceptions of Churchyard and Sackville they paid little See also:attention to See also:form
.
The book did much to promote See also:interest in English history, and Mr W
.
J
.
See also:Courthope has pointed out that the subjects of See also:Marlowe's See also:Edward II., of See also:Shakespeare's Henry VI., Richard II. and Richard III. are already dealt with in the Myrroure
.
Sackville's Induction opens with a description of the oncoming of See also:winter
.
The poet meets with Sorrow, who offers to See also:lead him to
The Sackville See also:line
.
the infernal regions that he may see the sad See also:estate of those ruined by their ambition, and thus learn the transient characterof earthly joy
.
At the approaches of See also:Hell he See also:sees a See also:group of terrible abstractions, Remorse of See also:Conscience, Dread, Misery, Revenge, Care, &c., each vividly described
.
The last of these was War, on whose See also:shield he saw depicted the great battles of antiquity
.
Finally, penetrating to the See also:realm of See also:Pluto himself, he is surrounded by the shades, of whom the duke of Buckingham is the first to advance, thus introducing the Complaint
.
To this induction the epithet " Dantesque " has been frequently applied, but in truth Sackville's See also:models were Gavin See also:Douglas and See also:Virgil
.
The dignity and See also:artistic quality of the narrative of the fall of Buckingham are in strong contrast to the crude attempts of Ferrers and Baldwin, and make the work one of the most important between the See also:Canterbury Tales and the Faerie Queene
.
Sackville has also the See also:credit of being part author with Thomas See also:Norton of the first legitimate tragedy in the English See also:language
.
This was See also:Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex, performed as part of the See also:Christmas festivities (1560-1561) by the society of the Inner Temple, and afterwards on the 18th of See also:January 1561 before Elizabeth at Whitehall
.
The See also:argument is as follows:
" Gorboduc, 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 of Brittaine, devided his Realme in his lyfe time to his Sones, Ferrex and Porrex
.
The Sonnes See also:fell to dyvision and discention
.
The yonger kylled the See also:elder
.
The Mother, that more dearely loved thelder, fr revenge kylled the yonger
.
The people, moved with the Crueltie of the facte, See also:rose in See also:Rebellion, and Slewe both father and mother
.
The Nobilitie assembled, and most terribly destroyed the Rebelles
.
And afterwards for want of Issue of the See also:Prince, wherby the See also:Succession of the See also:Crowne became uncertayne, they fell to Ciuill warre, in whiche both they and many of their Issues were slayne, and the Lande for a Ionge tyme almoste desolate, and myserablye wasted."
The argument shows plainly enough the didactic intention of the whole, and points the moral of the evils of See also:civil discord
.
The See also:story is taken from Book II. See also:chap. xvi. of See also:Geoffrey of See also:Monmouth's history
.
It was first printed (1565) in an unauthorized edition as The Tragedie of Gorboduc " whereof three Actes were wrytten by Thomas Nortone, and the two laste by Thomas Sackvyle." Norton's share has been generally minimized, and it seems safe to assume that Sackville is responsible for the general design
.
In 1570 appeared an See also:authentic edition, The Tragedie of Ferrex and Porrex, with a preface from the printer to the reader stating that the authors were " very much displeased that she (the tragedy) so ran abroad without leave." The tragedies of See also:Seneca were now being translated, and the See also:play is conceived on Senecan lines
.
The See also:plot was no doubt chosen for its accumulated horrors from See also:analogy with the tragic subjects of See also:Oedipus and Thyestes
.
None of the crimes occur on the See also:stage, but the action is described in lofty language by the characters
.
The most famous and harrowing See also:scene is that in which See also:Marcello relates the See also:murder of Porrex by his mother (See also:Act IV. sc. ii.)
.
The paucity of action is eked out by a dumb show to precede each act, and the See also:place of the See also:Chorus is supplied by four " See also:ancient and See also:sage men of See also:Britain." In the variety of incident, however, the authors departed from the classical See also:model
.
The play is written in excellent See also:blank See also:verse, and is the first example of the application of See also:Surrey's innovation to See also:drama
.
See also:Jasper See also:Heywood in the poetical address prefixed to his See also:translation of the Thyestes alludes to " Sackvylde's Sonnets sweetly sauste," but only one of these has survived
.
It is pre-fixed to Sir T
.
See also:Hoby's translation of See also:Castiglione's Courtier
.
Sackville's poetical preoccupations are sufficiently marked in the subject See also:matter of these two works, which remain,the See also:sole See also:literary productions of an original mind
.
The best edition of the See also:Mirror for Magistrates is that of See also:Joseph Haslewood (1815)
.
Gorboduc was edited for the Shakespeare Society by W
.
D
.
See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper in 1847; in 1883 by See also:Miss L
.
Toulmin See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith for C
.
Vollmoller's Englische Sprach-und Litteraturdenkmale (See also:Heilbronn, 1883)
.
The Works of Sackville were edited by C
.
Chapple (182o) and by the Hon. and Rev
.
Reginald Sackville-See also:West (1859)
.
See also A Mirror for Magistrates (1898) by Mr W
.
F
.
See also:Trench; an excellent See also:account in Mr W
.
J
.
Courthope's History of English See also:Poetry, vol. i. pp
.
III et seq
.
; and an important See also:article by Dr j
.
W
.
Cunliffe in the Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. hi
.
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