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See also:BERNERS, See also:JOHN See also:BOURCHIER, 2ND See also:BARON (1469-1533) , See also:English translator, was See also:born probably at Tharfield, See also:Hertford-See also:shire, about 1469. His See also:father was killed at See also:Barnet in 1471, and he inherited his See also:title in 1474 from his grandfather, John Bourchier, who was a descendant of See also:Edward III. It is supposed that he 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, perhaps at Balliol. His See also:political See also:life began See also:early, for in 1484 he was implicated in a premature See also:attempt to See also:place 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, See also:duke of See also:Richmond (afterwards Henry VII.), on the See also:throne, and fled in consequence to See also:Brittany. In 1497 he helped to put down an insurrection in See also:Cornwall and See also:Devonshire, raised by See also:Michael See also:Joseph, a blacksmith, and from 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 was in high favour at See also:court. He accompanied Henry VIII. to See also:Calais in 1513, and was a See also:captain of pioneers at the See also:siege of Therouanne. In the next See also:year he was again sent to See also:France as See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
chamberlain to 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's See also:sister See also:Mary on her See also:marriage with See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XII., but he soon returned to See also:England. He had been given the reversion of 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 See also:lord See also:chancellor, and in 1516 he received the actual See also:appointment. In 1518 he was sent to See also:Madrid to negotiate an See also:alliance with See also:Charles of See also:Spain. He sent letters to Henry chronicling the See also:bull-fights and other doings of the See also:Spanish court, and to See also:Wolsey complaining of the expense to which he was put in his position as See also:ambassador. In the next year he returned to England, and with his wife See also:Catherine See also:Howard, daughter of the duke of See also:Norfolk, was See also:present in 1520 at the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field of the See also:Cloth of See also:Gold. But his affairs were greatly embarrassed. He was harassed by lawsuits about his See also:Hertfordshire See also:property and owed the king sums he was unable to repay. Perhaps in the See also:hope of repairing his See also:fortune, he accepted the office of See also:deputy of Calais, where he spent the See also:rest of his life in See also:comparative leisure, though still harassed by his debts, and died on the 16th of See also:March 1533•
His See also:translation of Syr Johan Froyssart of the Cronycles of England, France, Spayne, Portyngale, See also:Scotland, Bretayne, Flaunders: and other places adjoynynge, was undertaken at the See also:request of Henry VIII., and was printed by See also:Richard Pynson in two volumes dated 1523 and 1525. It was the most considerable See also:historical See also:work that had yet appeared in English, and exercised See also:great See also:influence on 16th-See also:century chroniclers. Berners tells us in his prefaces of his own love of histories of all kinds, and in the introduction to his See also:story of See also:Arthur of Little See also:Britain he excuses its " fayned mater " and " many unpossybylytees " on the ground that other well reputed histories are equally incredible. He goes on to excuse his deficiencies by saying that he knew himself to be unskilled in the " facundyous arte of retoryke," and that he was but a " Lerner of the See also:language of Frensshe." The want of See also:rhetoric is not to be deplored. The See also:style of his translation is clear and See also:simple, and he rarely introduces See also:French words or idioms. Two romances from the French followed: The Boke of Duke Huon of Burdeux (printed 1534? by Wynkyn de Worde), and The Hystory of the Moost See also:noble and valyaunt See also:knight Arthur of lytell brytayne. His other two See also:translations, The See also:Castell of Love (printed 1540), from the Carcel de Amor of Diego de See also:San Pedro, and The See also:Golden Boke of See also:Marcus Aurelius (completed six days before his See also:death, printed 1534), from a French version of See also:Antonio See also:Guevara's See also:book, are in a different manner. The Golden Boke gives Berners a claim to be a See also:pioneer of See also:Euphuism, although See also:Lyly was probably acquainted with Guevara not through his version, but through See also:Sir 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:North's See also:Dial of Princes. Berners is also credited with a book on the duties of the inhabitants of Calais, which Mr See also:Sidney See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee thinks may be identical with the See also:ordinance for See also:watch and See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward of Calais preserved in the See also:Cotton See also:MSS. and with a lost See also:comedy, Ite in vineam ',team, which used to be acted at Calais after See also:vespers.
A See also:biographical See also:account of Berners is to be found in Mr Sidney Lee's introduction to Huon of Bourdeaux (Early English See also:Text Society
1882-1883). Among the many See also:editions of his translation of See also:Froissart may be mentioned that in the " Tudor Translations " (19ot), with an See also:introductory See also:critical See also:note by See also:Professor W. P. See also:Ker.
End of Article: BERNERS, JOHN BOURCHIER, 2ND BARON (1469-1533)
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