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EARL OF JOHN TIPTOFT WORCESTER (1427—...

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 821 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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, 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 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 of England . In this See also: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 .

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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 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 .

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