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DELONEY (or DELONE), THOMAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 970 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DELONEY (or DELONE), See also:THOMAS , See also:English ballad-writer and pamphleteer, produced his earliest indisputable See also:work in 1586, and died about 1600. In 1596 Thomas See also:Nashe, in his Have with you to See also:Saffron See also:Walden, wrote: " Thomas Deloney, the ballating See also:silk-See also:weaver, hath rime enough for all myracles, and wit to make a See also:Garland of See also:Good Will more than the premisses . . . and this deare yeare, together with the silencing of his looms, scarce that, he being constrained to betake himself to carded See also:ale; whence it proceedeth that since See also:Candlemas, or his jigge, See also:John for the See also:king, not one merrie dittie will come from him, but, the Thunderbolt against Swearers,—Repent, See also:England, Repent—and, the See also:strange Judgements of See also:God." In 1588 the coming of the See also:Armada inspired him for three broadsides, which were reprinted (186o) by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps. They are entitled " The Queenes visiting of the See also:Campe at Tilsburie with her entertainment there," " A Joyful new Ballad, declaring the happie obtaining of the See also:great Galleazzo . . . ," and " A new See also:Ballet of the straunge and Most cruell Whippes which the Spaniards had prepared." A collection of Strange Histories (1607) consists of See also:historical See also:ballads by Deloney, with some poems from other hands. This collection, known in later and enlarged See also:editions as The Royal Garland of Love and Delight and The Garland of Delight, contains the ballad of See also:Fair See also:Rosamond. J. H. See also:Dixon in his See also:preface to The Garland of Good Will (See also:Percy Society, 1851) ascribes to Deloney The See also:Blind See also:Beggar of Bednall See also:Green, and The Pleasant and sweet See also:History of Patient Grissel, in See also:prose, with the whole of the Garland of Good Will, including some poems such as " The See also:Spanish See also:Lady's Love " generally supposed to be by other hands.

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works include The See also:Gentle See also:Craft (1597) in praise of shoemakers, The Pleasant Historie of John Winchecombe (8th ed., 1619), and Thomas of See also:Reading or the See also:Size Worthie Yeomen of the See also:West (earliest extant edition, 1612). See also:Kempe, the actor, jeers at these histories in his Nine Dales Wonder, but they were very popular, being reprinted as See also:penny See also:chap-books. DE See also:LONG, See also:GEORGE See also:WASHINGTON (1844-1881), See also:American explorer, was See also:born in New See also:York See also:city on the 22nd of See also:August 1844. He graduated at the U.S. See also:Naval See also:Academy in 1865, and spent the next fourteen years in naval service in various parts of the See also:world, attaining the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant in 1869, and lieutenant-See also:commander in 1879.. In 1873 he took See also:part in the voyage of the " Juniata," sent to See also:search for and relieve the American See also:Arctic expedition under See also:Hall in the " Polaris," commanding a See also:steam See also:launch which was sent out from Upernivik, See also:Greenland, to make a thorough search of See also:Melville See also:Bay. On his return to New York the same See also:year he proposed to See also:James See also:Gordon See also:Bennett, of The New York See also:Herald, that the latter should See also:fit out a Polar expedition. It was not until 1879 that the final arrangements were made, the " See also:Pandora;" a yacht which had already made two Arctic voyages under See also:Sir See also:Allen See also:Young, being See also:purchased and rechristened the " See also:Jeannette " for this voyage. The See also:story of this expedition (see POLAR REGIONS) is chiefly remarkable on See also:account of the long and helpless drifting of the " Jeannette " with the polar See also:ice-See also:pack in which she was caught (See also:September 5, 1879) and by which she was finally crushed and sunk on the 13th of See also:June 1881. The members of the expedition set out in three boats, one of which was lost in a See also:gale, while another See also:boat-load under De Long died from See also:starvation after reaching the mouth of the See also:Lena See also:river. He was the last survivor of his party. His See also:journal, in which he made See also:regular entries up to the See also:day on which he died (See also:October 30, 1881) was edited by his wife and published in 1883 under the See also:title Voyage of the " Jeannette"; and an account of the search which was made for him and his comrades by his heroic See also:companion George W.

Melville, who was See also:

chief engineer of the expedition and commanded the third of the retreating parties, was published a year later under the title of In the Lena See also:Delta. The See also:fate of the " Jeannette " was still more remarkable in its sequel. Three years after she had sunk several articles belonging to her See also:crew were found on an ice-See also:floe near Julianshaab on the See also:south-west See also:coast of Greenland; thus adding fresh See also:evidence to the theory of a continuous ocean current passing across the unknown Polar regions, which was to be finally demonstrated by See also:Nansen's voyage in the " Fram." By direction of the See also:United States See also:government, the remains of De Long and his companions were brought See also:home and interred with See also:honour in his native city.

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