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See also:BLOUNT, 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 (1618-1679) , See also:English antiquarian, was the son of one Myles Blount, of Orleton in See also:Herefordshire. He was See also:born at Bordesley, See also:Worcestershire. Few details of his See also:life are known. It appears that he was called to the See also:bar at the Inner See also:Temple, but, being a zealous See also:Roman See also:Catholic, his See also:religion interfered considerably with the practice of his profession. Retiring to his See also:estate at Orleton, he devoted himself to the study of the See also:law as an See also:amateur, and also read widely in other branches of knowledge. He died at Orleton on the 26th of See also:December 1679. His See also:principal See also:works are Glossographia; or, a See also:dictionary interpreting the hard 'words of whatsoever See also:language, now used in our refined English See also:tongue (1656, reprinted in 1707), which went through several See also:editions and remains most amusing and instructive See also:reading; Nomolexicon: a law dictionary interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms as are found either in our See also:common or
See also:statute, See also:ancient or See also:modern See also:lawes (167o; third edition, with
additions by W. See also:Nelson, 1717); and Fragmenta Antiquitatis:
Ancient Tenures of See also:land, and jocular customs of some mannors (1679; enlarged by J. See also:Beckwith and republished, with additions by H. M. Beckwith, in 1815; again revised and enlarged by W. C.
See also:Hazlitt, 1874). Blount's Boscobel (1651), giving an See also:account of See also:Charles II.'s preservation after See also:Worcester, with the addition 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's own account dictated to See also:Pepys, has been edited with a bibliography by C. G. Thomas (1894).
End of Article: BLOUNT, THOMAS (1618-1679)
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