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See also:SELDEN, See also:JOHN (1584–1654) , See also:English jurist, legal See also:antiquary and See also:oriental See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 16th of See also:December 1584 at Salvington, in the See also:parish of See also:West Tarring, See also:Sussex. His See also:father, also John Selden, held a small See also:farm. It is said that his accomplishments as a See also:violin-player gained him his wife, whose social position was somewhat See also:superior to his own. She was See also:Margaret, the only See also:child of 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 See also:Baker of Rustington, a See also:village in the vicinity of West Tarring, and was more or less remotely descgnded from a knightly See also:family of the same name in See also:Kent. John Selden commenced his See also:education at the See also:free See also:grammar-school at See also:Chichester, whence in 1600 he proceeded to See also:Hart See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, 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 1603 he was admitted a member of See also:Clifford's See also:Inn, See also:London, and in 1604 migrated to the Inner See also:Temple, and in 1612 he was called to the See also:bar. His earliest See also:patron was See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Cotton, the antiquary, by whom he seems to have been employed in copying and abridging certain of the See also:parliamentary records then pre-served in the See also:Tower. For some See also:reason which has not been explained, Selden never went into See also:court as an See also:advocate, See also:save on rare and exceptional occasions. But his practice in See also:chambers as a conveyancer and consulting counsel is stated to have been large, and, if we may See also:judge from the considerable See also:fortune he accumulated, it must also have been lucrative.
It was, however, as a scholar and writer that Selden won his reputation both amongst his contemporaries and with posterity. His first See also:work, an See also:account of the See also:civil See also:administration of See also:England before the See also:Norman See also:Conquest, is said to have been completed when he was only two.. or three-and-twenty years of See also:age. But if this was the Analecton Anglo-Britannicon, as is generally supposed, he withheld it from the See also:world until 16r5. In 16ro appeared his England's Epinomis and See also:Janus Anglorum; Facies Altera, which dealt with the progress of English See also:law down to 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 II.; and The Duello, or Single Combat, in which he traced the See also:history of trial by See also:battle in England from the Norman Conquest. In 1613 he supplied a See also:series of notes, enriched by an immense number of quotations and references, to the first eighteen cantos of See also:Drayton's Polyolbion. In 1614 he published Titles of See also:Honour, which, in spite of some obvious defects and omissions, has remained to the See also:present See also:day the most comprehensive and trustworthy work of its See also:kind that we possess; and in 1616 his notes on See also:Fortescue's De laudibus legum Angliae and See also:Ralph de Hengham's Summae magna et parva. In 1617 his De diis Syriis was issued, and immediately established his fame as an oriental scholar among the learned in all parts of See also:Europe. It is remarkable for its brilliant use of the See also:comparative method, in which it was far ahead of its age, and is still consulted by students of Semitic See also:mythology. In 1618 his History of See also:Tithes, although only published after it had been submitted to the censorship and duly licensed, nevertheless aroused the See also:apprehension of the bishops and provoked the intervention 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. The author was summoned before the privy See also:council and compelled to retract his opinions, or at any See also:rate what were held to be his opinions. Moreover, his work was suppressed and himself forbidden to reply to any of the controversialists who had come or might come forward to See also:answer it.
This seems to have introduced Selden to the See also:practical See also:side of See also:political affairs. The discontents which a few years later See also:broke out into civil See also:war were already forcing themselves on public See also:attention, and it is See also:pretty certain that, although he was not in See also:parliament, he was the instigator and perhaps the draftsman of the memorable protestation on the rights and privileges of the See also:House affirmed by the See also:Commons on the 18th of December 1621. He was with several of the members committed to See also:prison, at first in the Tower and subsequently under the See also:charge of Sir Robert Ducie, See also:sheriff of London. During his detention, which only lasted a See also:short 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 occupied himself in preparing an edition of See also:Eadmer's History from a See also:manuscript See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
lent to him by his See also:host or jailor, which he published two years afterwards. In 1623 he was returned to the House of Commons for the See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of See also:Lancaster, and sat with See also:Coke, See also:Noy and See also:Pym on Sergeant Glanville's See also:election See also:committee. He was also nominated reader of See also:Lyon's Inn, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office which he declined to undertake. For this the benchers of the Inner Temple, by whom he had been appointed, fined him £2o and disqualified him from being chosen one of their number. But he was relieved from this incapacity after a few years, and became a See also:master of the See also:bench. In the first parliament of See also:Charles I. (1625), it appears from the " returns of members " printed in 1878 that, contrary to the assertion of all his biographers, he had no seat. In Charles's second parliament (1626) he was elected for See also:Great Bedwin in See also:Wiltshire, and took a prominent See also:part in the See also:impeachment of See also:George See also:Villiers, See also:duke of See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham. In the following See also:year, in the " benevolence " See also:case, he was counsel for Sir See also:Edmund See also:Hampden in the court of king's bench. In 1628 he was returned to the third parliament of Charles for Ludgershall in Wiltshire, and had a large and important See also:share in See also:drawing up and carrying the See also:Petition of Right. In the session of 1629 he was one of the members mainly responsible for the tumultuous passage in the House of Commons of the See also:resolution against the illegal See also:levy of See also:tonnage and poundage, and, along with See also:Eliot, See also:Holles, See also:Long, See also:Valentine, See also:Strode, and the See also:rest, he was sent once more to the Tower. There he remained for eight months, deprived for a part of the time of the use of books.and See also:writing materials. He was then removed, under less rigorous conditions, to the See also:Marshal-See also:sea, until not long afterwards owing to the See also:good offices of See also:Arch-See also:bishop See also:Laud he was liberated. Some years before he had been appointed steward to the See also:earl of Kent, to whose seat, Wrest in See also:Bedfordshire, he now retired. In 1628 at the See also:suggestion of Sir Robert Cotton he had compiled, with the assistance of two learned coadjutors, See also:Patrick See also:Young and See also:Richard See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James, a See also:catalogue of the See also:Arundel See also:marbles. He employed his leisure at Wrest in writing De successionibus in See also:bona defuncti secundum leges Ebraeorum and De successione in pontificatum Ebraeorum, published in 1631. About this See also:period he seems to have inclined towards the court rather than the popular party, and even to have secured the See also:personal favour of the king. To him in 1635 he dedicated his See also:Mare clausum, and under the royal patronage it was put forth as a kind of See also:state See also:paper. It had been written sixteen or seventeen years before; but James I. had prohibited its publication for political reasons; hence it appeared a See also:quarter of a See also:century after See also:Grotius's Mare liberum, to which it was intended to be a rejoinder, and the pretensions advanced in which on behalf of the Dutch fishermen to See also:poach in the See also:waters off the See also:British coasts it was its purpose to explode. The fact that Selden was not retained in the great case of See also:ship See also:money in 1637 by John Hampden, the See also:cousin of his former client, may be accepted as additional See also:evidence that his zeal in the popular cause was not so warm and unsuspected as it had once been. During the progress of this momentous constitutional conflict, indeed, he seems to have been absorbed in his oriental
researches, See also:publishing De jure naturali et gentium juxta disciplinam Ebraeorum in 1640. He was not elected to the Short Parliament of 164o; but to the Long Parliament, summoned in the autumn, he was returned without opposition for the university of Oxford. He opposed the resolution against See also:episcopacy which led to the exclusion of the bishops from the House of Lords, and printed an answer to the arguments used by Sir Harbottle Grimston on that occasion. He joined in the protestation of the Commons for the See also:maintenance of the See also:Protestant See also:religion according to the doctrines 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 of England, the authority of the See also:crown, and the See also:liberty of the subject. He was equally opposed to the court on the question of the commissions of lieutenancy of See also:array and to the parliament on the question of the See also:militia See also:ordinance.
In 1643 he participated in the discussions of the See also:assembly of divines at See also:Westminster, and was appointed shortly afterwards keeper of the rolls and records in the Tower. In 1645 he was named one of the parliamentary commissioners of the See also:admiralty, and was elected master of Trinity Hall in See also:Cambridge—an office he declined to accept. In 1646 he sub-scribed the See also:Solemn See also:League and See also:Covenant, and in 1647 was voted 5000 by the parliament as See also:compensation for his sufferings in the evil days of the See also:monarchy. He had not, however, relaxed his See also:literary exertions during these years. He published in 1642 Privileges of the Baronage of England when they sit in Parliament and Discourse concerning the Rights and Privileges of the Subject; in 1644, Dissertatio de See also:anno civili et calendario reipublicae Judaicae; in 1646 his See also:treatise on See also:marriage and See also:divorce among the See also:Jews entitled Uxor Ebraica; and in 1647 the earliest printed edition of the old English law-See also:book See also:Fleta. In 165o Selden passed the first part of De synedriis et prefecturis juridicis veterum Ebraeorum through the See also:press, the second and third parts being severally published in 1653 and 1655, and in 1652 he wrote a See also:preface and collated some of the See also:manuscripts for Sir See also:Roger See also:Twysden's Historiae Anglicae scriptores decem. His last publication was a vindication of himself from certain charges advanced against him and his Mare clausum in 1653 by See also:Theodore Graswinckel, a Dutch jurist.
After the See also:death of the earl of Kent in 1639 Selden lived permanently under the same roof with his widow. It is believed that he was married to her, although their marriage does not seem to have ever been publicly acknowledged. He died at Friary House in Whitefriars on the 3oth of See also:November 1654, and was buried in the Temple Church, London. In 188o a See also:brass tablet was erected to his memory by the benchers of the Inner Temple in the parish church of West Tarring.
Several of Selden's See also:minor productions were printed for the first time after his death, and a collective edition of his writings was published by See also:Archdeacon See also:Wilkins in 3 vols. See also:folio in 1725, and again In 1726. His Table Talk, by which he is perhaps best known, did not appear until 1689. It was edited by his See also:amanuensis, Richard Milward, who affirms that " the sense and notion is wholly Selden's," and that " most of the words " are his also. Its genuineness has sometimes been questioned, although on insufficient grounds.
See See also:Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, ed. See also:Bliss (London; 1817, 4 vols.) ; See also:Aikin, Lives of John Selden and See also:Archbishop See also:- USHER (O. Fr. ussier, uissier, mod. huissier, from Lat. ostiarius, a door-keeper, ostium, doorway, entrance, os, mouth)
- USHER (or USSHER), JAMES (1581-1656)
Usher (London, 1812) ; See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, See also:Memoirs of John Selden, &c. (London, 1835) ; See also:Singer, Table Talk of John Selden (London, 1847); and Wilkins, Johannis Seldeni See also:opera amnia, &c. (London, 1725).
SEL$NL in See also:Greek mythology, the divine personification of the See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
moon, daughter of See also:Hyperion and Theia, See also:sister of Helios and Eos. By See also:Zeus she was said to have been the See also:mother of Pandia (the all-See also:bright), who was worshipped with her father at the festival named after her Pandia.l She was also wooed by See also:Pan in the See also:form of a See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:ram, or she had selected a white ram from his See also:flock as the See also:price of her favours. The most famous of her 'amours was with See also:Endymion (q.v.). Selene was represented as a beautiful young woman with wings and a See also:golden diadem, sometimes See also:riding in a See also:chariot See also:drawn by two white, sometimes winged, horses (or cows, symbolizing the moon's See also:crescent, or bulls), or herself mounted on a See also:horse, a See also:bull, a See also:mule or a ram. At Ells there was a statue of Selene, her See also:head surmounted by a crescent. Later, she was identified with See also:Artemis, and as such
1 The connexion of Selene or Pandia with this festival is denied by Wilamowitz-Mbllendorff (Aus Kydathen, p. 133).called See also:Phoebe, the sister of See also:Phoebus See also:Apollo. She was worshipped on the days of the new and the full moon. Another name for Selene was Mene, in reference to the monthly changes of the moon. The existence of a male moon-See also:god (Men), whose cult probably came to See also:Attica from See also:Asia Minor, is attested by See also:inscriptions. The See also:Roman goddess of the moon was See also:Luna, who possessed sanctuaries on the Aventine and See also:Palatine hills. In the former she was worshipped on the last day of See also:March (the first See also:month of the old Roman year); in the latter as Noctiluca (giving See also:light by See also:night), her See also:sanctuary being illuminated on such occasions.
See W. H. See also:Roscher, Ober Selene and Verwandtes (189o), with Nachtrage (1895) ; See also:Preller, Griechische Mythologie (4th ed., 1894), pp. 443-446; A. Legrand, s.v. " Luna " in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:des antiquites.
SELENGA-ORKHON, a See also:river of Central Asia, which rises in two See also:principal head-streams, the Selenga and the Orkhon, on the See also:plateau of N.W. See also:Mongolia, not far apart in rot° E. Both flow generally E.N.E. as far as their confluence near See also:Kiakhta, on the frontier of Mongolia and See also:Siberia, at the eastern extremity of the Sayan Mountains. Beyond Kiakhta the river flows generally N. nearly as far as 52° N., when it turns W. and enters See also:Lake See also:Baikal on the S.W., forming a See also:delta. It is navigable from Kiakhta downwards, a distance of 210 m., its See also:total length being 750 M. From the See also:left it receives the Eghin-gol and the Jida, and from the right the Tala, Kharagoy, Chikoy, Khilok and Uda, streams each 150 to 300 M. in length. Near the upper Orkhon was the permanent See also:camp of See also:Karakorum, from the 8th century down to the end of the 13th the centre of the Mongol See also:power, especially under the sway of Jenghiz See also:Khan and his son Ogotai or Ogdai in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Several remarkable inscriptions were discovered here in the end of the 19th century, and were interpreted by See also:Professor V. See also:Thomsen of See also:Copenhagen Inscriptions de l'Orkhon (See also:Helsingfors, 1900).
End of Article: SELDEN, JOHN (1584–1654)
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