See also:EARL OF See also:JOHN TIPTOFT See also:WORCESTER (1427—1470)
, was son of See also:John Tiptoft (1375-1443), who was See also:Speaker of the See also:House of See also:Commons in 1406, much employed in See also:diplomacy by 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., a member of the See also:council during the minority of Henry VI., and created See also:Baron Tiptoft in 1426
.
The younger Tiptoft was educated 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, where John See also:Rous says that he was one of his See also:fellow-students; he is stated to have been a member of Balliol See also:College
.
He married See also:Cicely, daughter of See also:Richard See also:Neville, See also:earl of See also:Salisbury, and widow of Henry See also:Beauchamp (d
.
1445), See also:duke of See also:Warwick
.
In 1449 he was created earl of See also:Worcester
.
His wife died in 1450, but he continued the association with the Yorkist party
.
During See also:York's See also:protectorate he was treasurer of the See also:exchequer, and in 1456–1457 See also:deputy of See also:Ireland
.
In 1457 and again in 1459 he was sent on embassies to the See also:pope
.
He was abroad three years, during. which he made a See also:pilgrimage to See also:Jerusalem; the See also:rest of the 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 he spent in See also:Italy, at See also:Padua, where he studied See also:law and Latin; at See also:Ferrara, where he made the acquaintance of See also:Guarino of See also:Verona; and at See also:Florence, where be heard the lectures of John Argyropoulos, the teacher of See also:Greek
.
He returned to See also:England See also:early in the reign of See also:Edward IV., and on the 7th of See also:February 1462 was made See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
constable of England
.
In this 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 he had at once to try the earl of Oxford, and judged him by " lawe padoue " (sc. of Padua; See also:Warkworth, 5)
.
In 1463 he commanded at See also:sea, without success
.
In the following See also:year as constable he tried and condemned See also:Sir See also:Ralph See also:Grey and other Lancastrians
.
In 1467 he was again appointed deputy of Ireland
.
During a year's office there he had the earl of See also:Desmond attainted, and cruelly put to See also:death the earl's two See also:infant sons
.
In 1470, as constable, he condemned twenty of Warwick's adherents, and had them impaled, " for which ever afterwards the earl was greatly hated among the See also:people, for their disordinate death that he used contrary to the law of the See also:land " (Warkworth, 9)
.
On the Lancastrian restoration Worcester fled into hiding, but was discovered and tried before the earl of Oxford, son of the See also:man whom he had condemned in 1462
.
He was executed on See also:Tower See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill on the 18th of See also:October 1470
.
Worcester was detested for his brutality and abuse of the law, and was called " the See also:butcher of England " (See also:Fabyan, 659) More than any of his contemporaries in this See also:country he represents the See also:combination of culture and See also:cruelty that was distinctive of the Italians of the See also:Renaissance
.
Apart from his moral See also:character he was an accomplished See also:scholar, and a See also:great purchaser of books in Italy, many of which he presented to the university of Oxford
.
He translated See also:Cicero's De amicitia and Buonaccorso's See also:Declaration of Nobleness, which were printed by See also:Caxton in 1481
.
Caxton in his See also:epilogue eulogized Worcester as See also:superior to all the temporal lords of the See also:kingdom in moral virtue as well as in See also:science
.
Worcester is also credited with a See also:translation of See also:Caesar's Commentaries printed in 1530
.
His " ordinances for justes and triumphes," made as constable in 1466, are printed in See also:Harrington's Nugae antiquae
.
Worcester was a See also:patron of the early See also:English humanist John See also:Free, and his See also:Italian See also:friends included, besides those already mentioned, Lodovico See also:Carbo of Ferrara,
and the famous Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci
.
End of Article: