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See also:HARRISON, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1534–1593) , See also:English topographer and See also:antiquary, was See also:born in See also:London on the 18th of See also:April 1534. He was educated, according to his own See also:account, at St See also:Paul's school and at See also:Westminster under See also:Alexander See also:Nowell. In 1551 he was at See also:Cambridge, but he took his B.A. degree from See also:Christ 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, 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, in 156o. He was inducted See also:early in 1559 to the rectory of Radwinter, See also:Essex, on the presentation of See also:Sir William See also:Brooke, See also:Lord See also:Cobham, to whom he had formerly acted as See also:chaplain; and from 1J71 to 1581 he held from another See also:patron, See also:Francis de la See also:Wood, the living of Wimbish in the same See also:county. He became See also:canon of See also:Windsor in 1586, and his See also:death and See also:burial are noted in the See also:chapter See also:book of St See also:George's See also:chapel on the 24th of April 1593.
His famous and amusing Description of See also:England was under-taken for the See also:queen's printer, Reginald See also:Wolfe, who designed the publication of " an universall cosmographic of the whole See also:world ... with particular histories of every knowne nation." After Wolfe's death in 1576 this comprehensive See also:plan was reduced to descriptions and histories of England, See also:Scotland and See also:Ireland. The See also:historical See also:section was to be supplied by See also:Raphael See also:Holinshed, the topographical by Harrison. The See also:work was eventually published as The See also:Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland .. . by Raphael Holinshed and others, and was printed in two See also:black-See also:letter See also:folio volumes in 1577. Harrison's Description of England, humbly described as his " foule frizeled See also:treatise," and dedicated to his patron Cobham, is an invaluable survey of the See also:condition of England under See also:Elizabeth, in all its See also:political, religious and social aspects. Harrison is a See also:minute and careful observer of men and things, and his descriptions are enlivened with many examples of a lively and See also:caustic See also:humour which makes the book excellent See also:reading. In spite of his Puritan prejudices, which See also:lead him to regret that the churches had not been cleared of their " pictures in See also:glass " (" by See also:reason of the extreme cost thereof "), and to exhaust his wit on the effeminate See also:Italian fashions of the younger See also:generation, he had an See also:eye for beauty and is loud in his praise of such architectural gems as 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 VIL's chapel at Westminster. He is properly contemptuous of the snobbery that was even then characteristic of English society; but his account of " how gentlemen are made in England " must be read in full to be appreciated. He is especially instructive on the condition and services of the Church immediately after the See also:Reformation; notably in the fact that, though an ardent See also:Protestant, he is quite unconscious of any See also:breach of continuity in the See also:life and organization of the Church of England.
Harrison also contributed the See also:translation from Scots into English of See also:Bellenden's version of See also:Hector See also:Boece's Latin Description of Scotland. His other See also:works include a " Chronologie," giving an account of events from the creation to the See also:year 1593, which is of some value for the See also:period covered by the writer's lifetime. This, with an elaborate treatise on weights and See also:measures, remains in MS. in the diocesan library of See also:Londonderry.
For the later See also:editions of the Chronicles of England . see HOLI\snED. The second and third hooks of Harrison's Description were edited by Dr F. J. See also:Furnivall for the New Shakspere Society, with extracts from his " Chronologie " and from other contemporary writers, as Shakspere's England (2 vols., 1877-1878).
End of Article: HARRISON, WILLIAM (1534–1593)
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