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See also:USK, 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 (d. 1388) , the author of The Testament of Love, was See also:born in See also:London. His name was first added to the See also:history of See also:English literature in 1897 by Mr 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 See also:Bradley's See also:discovery that The Testament of Love, an important See also:prose See also:work hitherto attributed to See also:Chaucer, See also:bore in the initial letters of its chapters a statement of authorship—" Margarete of virtw, have merci on thin Usk." By the See also:light of this See also:perception, various autobiographical statements became luminous, and there remained no possible doubt that the author was Thomas Usk, who was clerk of the closet to See also:John of See also:Northampton when he was See also:mayor of London from 1381 to 1383. In See also:July 1384 Usk was seized and put in See also:prison, but was released on promise of bringing charges against the mayor. Usk had no wish to be what he called " a stinking See also:martyr," and he freely produced See also:evidence which sent John of Northampton to See also:gaol.
For this he was not forgiven by the See also:duke of See also:Gloucester's party, although he continued to hold confidential posts in London until the See also:close of 1386, when he was appointed sub-See also:sheriff of See also:Middlesex. But he See also:fell with 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, in the See also:triumph of the duke of Gloucester, and on the 3rd of See also:February 1388 Usk, among others, was tried for See also:treason and condemned. He was sentenced " to be See also:drawn, hung and beheaded, and that his See also:head should be set up over Newgate." John of See also:Malvern, in his continuation of See also:Ralph Higden's Polychronicon,l gives a horrid description of his See also:execution, which occurred on the 4th of See also:March 1388, in circumstances of See also:rude barbarity; it took See also:thirty blows of a See also:sword to sever Usk's head from his shoulders. See also:Professor See also:Skeat has shown that the date of his See also:book must be about 1387, for in it he reviews the incidents of his career, including the See also:odd facts that, after his first imprisonment in 1384, he challenged any one who " contraried " his " saws " —that is to say, denied his allegations—to fight, but that no one took up his See also:wager of See also:battle. From 1381 to 1383, while Chaucer was See also:comptroller of customs, Usk was See also:collector, and they were doubtless acquainted. In The Testament of Love, the See also:god is made to praise " mine own true servant, the See also:noble philosophical poet in English," who had composed " a See also:treatise of my servant See also:Troilus." Usk had at one 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 been a Lollard, but in prison he submitted to 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 and thought he was forgiven. His solitary work is remarkable, and the most elaborate See also:production in See also:original English prose which the end of the 14th See also:century has bequeathed to us. It is, however, excessively tedious, and of its obscurity and dullness a very amusing See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof is given by the fact that successive editors—and even Dr Henry Bradley and Professor Skeat—did not discover till too See also:late that the leaves of the original MS. had been shuffled and the See also:body of the treatise misarranged. No MS. of The Testament of Love has been preserved; it was first printed by W. Thynne in his edition of Chaucer, 1532. In 1897 Professor Skeat, with cancelled sheets to See also:cover the unlucky See also:mistake above referred to, issued a revised and annotated See also:text in his Chaucerian and other Pieces.
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