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See also:LITHGOW, 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 (1582–? 165o) , Scottish traveller and writer, was See also:born and educated in See also:Lanark. He was caught in a love-See also:adventure, mutilated of his ears by the See also:brothers of the See also:lady (hence the See also:sobriquet " Cut-lugged Willie "), and forced to leave See also:Scotland. For nineteen years he travelled, mostly on See also:foot, through See also:Europe, the See also:Levant, See also:Egypt and See also:northern See also:Africa, covering, according to his estimate, over 36,000 m. The See also:story of his adventures may be See also:drawn from The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and painful! Peregrinations of See also:long nineteene Meares (See also:London, 1614; See also:fuller edition, 1632, &c.); A True and Experimentall Discourse upon the last See also:siege of See also:Breda (London, 1637) ; and a similar See also:book giving an See also:account of the siege of See also:Newcastle and the See also:battle of See also:Marston See also:Moor (See also:Edinburgh, 1645). He is the author of a See also:Present Surveigh of London (London, 1643). He See also:left six poems, written between 1618 and 1640 (reprinted by Maidment, Edinburgh, 1863). Of these " Scotland's Welcome to 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 See also:Charles, 1633 " has considerable antiquarian See also:interest. His See also:writing has no See also:literary merit; but its excessively aureate See also:style deserves See also:notice.
The best account of Lithgow and his See also:works is by F. Hindes Groome in the See also:Diet. Nat. Biog. The piece entitled Scotland's Paraenesis to King Charles II. (166o), ascribed to him in the See also:catalogue of the See also:Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, cannot, from See also:internal See also:evidence, be his.
End of Article: LITHGOW, WILLIAM (1582–? 165o)
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