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See also:EDWARD VI . (1537-1553), 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 of See also:England and See also:Ireland, See also:born at See also:Greenwich on the 12th of See also:October 1537, was the only See also:child of 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 VIII. by his third wife, Jane See also:Seymour, who died of puerperal See also:fever twelve days later. The See also:story that the See also:mother's See also:life was deliberately sacrificed by the performance of Caesarean
See also:section is unfounded, although Jane's See also:death was little noticed amid the rejoicings which greeted the See also:advent of a male See also:heir to the See also:throne. But in spite of See also:Holbein's vivacious portrait of Edward at the See also:age of two (now at See also:Hanover), he was a frail child, and a See also:short life was anticipated for him from his See also:early years. This did not prevent a strenuous See also:education; until the age of six he was naturally See also:left in the See also:charge of See also:women, but when he was only seven his See also:tutor Dr See also:Coxe, afterwards See also:bishop of See also:Ely, writes that he could decline any Latin noun and conjugate any See also:regular verb (L. and P., 1544, ii. 726); " every See also:day in the See also:mass-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 readeth a portion of See also:Solomon's See also:Proverbs, wherein he delighteth much." See also:Sir See also:John See also:Cheke, Sir See also:Anthony See also:Cooke and See also:Roger See also:Ascham all helped to See also:teach him Latin, See also:Greek and See also:French; and by the age of thirteen he had read See also:Aristotle's See also:Ethics in the See also:original and was himself translating See also:Cicero's De philosophia into Greek.
Edward was See also:duke of See also:Cornwall from his See also:birth, but he was never See also:prince of See also:Wales, and he was only nine when he succeeded his See also:father as king of England and Ireland and supreme See also:head of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church (28th of See also:January 1546/7). His nonage threw See also:power into the hands of See also:Somerset and then of See also:Northumberland, and enabled See also:Gardiner and See also:Bonner to maintain that the royal supremacy over the church was, or should be, in See also:abeyance. Projects for his See also:marriage were hardly even the occasion, but only the excuse, for Somerset's See also:war on See also:Scotland and Northumberland's subsequent See also:alliance with See also:France. All factions sought to See also:control his See also:person, not because of his See also:personality but because of his position; he was like the See also:Great See also:Seal, only more so, an indispensable See also:adjunct to the wielder of authority. The See also:Protector's See also:brother tried to bribe him with See also:pocket-See also:money; Northumberland was more subtle and established a See also:complete dominion over his mind, and then put him forward at the age of fourteen as entitled to all the power of Henry VIII. But he was only Northumberland's See also:mask; of his individual See also:influence on the course of See also:history during his reign there is hardly a trace. A See also:posthumous effort was made to give him the See also:credit of a humane See also:desire to See also:save See also:Joan Bocher from the flames; but he recorded with apparently See also:cold-blooded in-difference the See also:execution of both his uncles, and he certainly made no See also:attempt to mitigate the harassing attentions which the See also:council paid his See also:sister See also:Mary. This passed for piety with the zealots, and the persecutions of Mary's reign reflected a See also:halo on that of the See also:Protestant See also:Josiah. So strong was the regret that rumours of his survival persisted, and See also:hare-brained youths were found to personate him throughout Mary's and even far into See also:Elizabeth's reign.
It was well that they were false, for Edward showed signs of all the Tudor obstinacy, and he was a fanatic into the bargain, as no other Tudor was except Mary. The See also:combination would probably have involved England in disasters far greater than any that ensued upon his premature death; and it was much better that the See also:Anglican See also:settlement of See also:religion should have been left to the compromising See also:temper of Elizabeth. As it was, he bequeathed a See also:legacy of woe; his See also:health began to fail in 1552, and in May 1553 it was known that he was dying. But his will and the various drafts of it only betray the agitated and illogical efforts of Northumberland to contrive some means whereby he might continue to control the See also:government and prevent the See also:administration of See also:justice. Mary and Elizabeth were to be excluded from the throne, as not sufficiently pliant See also:instruments; Mary See also:Stuart was ignored as being under Scottish, See also:Catholic and French influence; the duchess of See also:Suffolk, See also:Lady Jane's mother, was excluded because she was married, and the duke her See also:husband might claim the See also:crown matrimonial. In fact, all See also:females were excluded, except Jane, on the ground that no woman could reign; even she was excluded in the first draft, and the crown was left to " the Lady Jane's heirs male." But this draft was manipulated so as to read " the Lady Jane and her heirs male." That Edward himself was responsible for these delirious provisions is improbable. But he had been so impregnated with the divine right of See also:kings and the divine truth of Protestantism that he thought he was entitled and See also:bound to override the See also:succession as established by See also:law and exclude a Catholic from the throne; and his last recorded words were vehement injunctions to See also:Cranmer to sign the will.
He died at Greenwich on the 6th of See also:July 1553, and was buried in Henry VII.'s See also:chapel by Cranmer with Protestant See also:rites on the 8th of See also:August, while Mary had Mass said for his soul in the See also:Tower.
J. G. See also:Nichols collected almost all that is known of Edward VI. in his excellent edition of the king's See also:Journal. A few additional facts and suggestions can be gleaned from the Letters and Papers of Henry VIII. vols. xii.-xxi.; Acts of the Privy Council, ed. See also:Dasent, vols. i.-iv.; Domestic, See also:Spanish, Venetian and See also:Foreign Calendars of See also:State Papers; See also:Froude's History; See also:Dixon's Hist. Church of England; A. F. See also:Pollard ' sEngland under Somerset and Life of Cranmer ; and See also:English See also:Historical See also:Review, See also:xxiii. 286, &c. Sir Clements See also:Markham's Edward VI. (1907) emphasizes his See also:interest in See also:geography. (A. F.
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