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See also:THOMASON, See also:GEORGE (d. 1666) , See also:English See also:book and See also:tract See also:collector, was a See also:London bookseller, whose See also:life contains few items of See also:interest See also:save the fact that he was concerned in a royalist See also:plot in 1651. He is famous, however, as the See also:man who brought together the See also:great collection of books and tracts published during the 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 of the See also:Civil See also:War and the See also:Commonwealth; this was formerly called 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's See also:Pamphlets," but is now known as the " Thomason Collection." During the years just before she outbreak of war a great number of writings covering every phase of the questions in dispute between king and See also:people were issued, and in 1641 Thomason began to collect these. Working diligently at his task for about twenty years, he possessed nearly 23,000 See also:separate publications in 1662, and having arranged these in See also:chronological See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order he had them See also:bound in 1983 volumes. After many vicissitudes the collection was bought in 1761 from his descendants by George III., who presented it to the See also:British Museum, where it now is (see See also:NEWSPAPERS). Thomason died in London in See also:April (1666).
End of Article: THOMASON, GEORGE (d. 1666)
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