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URSWICK, CHRISTOPHER (1448-1522)

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URSWICK, See also:CHRISTOPHER (1448-1522) , See also:English diplomatist, was See also:born at See also:Furness in See also:Lancashire and was probably educated at See also:Cambridge. He became See also:chaplain to See also:Margaret, countess of See also:Richmond and See also:Derby, and was employed by her to forward the schemes for securing the English See also:throne for her son, See also:Henry of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII. He crossed from See also:Harfleur to See also:Wales with Henry in See also:August 1485, and was See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Bosworth; then followed for him a See also:series of ecclesiastical preferments, the most important of which was to the deanery of See also:York. He was sent on several weighty embassies, including one to See also:Ferdinand and See also:Isabella of See also:Spain to arrange the See also:marriage between See also:Prince See also:Arthur and See also:Catherine of See also:Aragon, and another to See also:France in 1492, when he signed the treaty of Etaples. In 1495 he became See also:dean of See also:Windsor, and he died on the 24th of See also:March 1522. Urswick was very friendly with See also:Erasmus and with See also:Sir See also:Thomas More. He did some See also:building at Windsor, and one of the chapels in St See also:George's See also:chapel there is still called the Urswick chapel. Urswick's kinsman, Sir Thomas Urswick, was a Yorkist See also:partisan, who was See also:recorder of See also:London and See also:chief See also:baron of the See also:exchequer. See Urswick, Records of the See also:Family of Urwick or Urswick (1893). URTICACEAE (See also:nettle family), in See also:botany, an See also:order of See also:Dicotyledons belonging to the series Urticiflorae, which includes also Ulmaceae (See also:elm family), See also:Moraceae (mulberry, fig, &c.) and Cannabinaceae (See also:hemp and See also:hop). It contains 41 genera, with about 50o See also:species, mainly tropical, though several species such as the See also:common stinging nettle ((lrtica dioica) are widely distributed and occur in large See also:numbers in temperate climates. Two genera are represented in, the See also:British Isles, Urtica (see NETTLE) and Parietaria (See also:pellitory, q.v.).

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plants are generally herbs or somewhat shrubby, rarely, as in some tropical genera, forming a See also:bush or See also:tree. The See also:simple, often serrated, leaves have sometimes an alternate sometimes an opposite arrangement and are usually stipulate—exstipulate in Parietaria. The position of the stipules varies in different genera; thus in Urtica they are lateral and distinct from the See also:leaf-stalk, in other cases they are attached on the See also:base of the leaf-stalk or stand in the leaf-axil when they are more or less See also:united. Stinging hairs often occur on the See also:stem and leaves (fig. 1). The bast-See also:fibres of the From Vines's Students' See also:Text-See also:Book of Botany, by permission of See also:Swan Sonnenschein & Co. stem are generally See also:long and firmly attached end to end, and hence cf See also:great value for textile use. Thus in See also:ramie (q.v., Boehmeria nivea) a single fibre may reach nearly 9 in. in length, and in stinging nettle as much as 3 in. The small inconspicuous See also:regular See also:flowers (See also:figs. 3 and 4) are arranged in definite (cymose) inflorescences often crowded into See also:head-like clusters. They are unisexual and monoecious or dioecious. The four or five See also:green perianth leaves (or sepals) are See also:free or more or less united; the male flowers (fig.

2) contain as many stamens, opposite the sepals, which See also:

bend inwards in the bud 1, male See also:flower; 2, See also:female flower in fruiting See also:stage—the 'dry compressed See also:fruit 3 escaping from the persistent perianth; 4, fruit cut open, revealing the See also:seed within the large straight embryo e. 1, 2, 3, enlarged. stage, but when mature See also:spring backwards and outwards, the anther at the same See also:time exploding and scattering the See also:pollen. The flowers are thus adapted for See also:wind-See also:pollination. The female flower contains one carpel bearing one See also:style with a See also:brush-like stigma and containing a single erect ovule. The fruit is dry and one-seeded; it is often enclosed within the persistent perianth. The straight embryo is surrounded by a See also:rich oily endosperm.

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