Imprimis. I bequeath my Soule to God that gave it trusting in the (meritts(?)) of my Redeemer to obtaine a joyfull Resurrection and my bodie to the grave to be Interred in my Orchard near my first Wife decently according to the usuall Solemnities of the Church of England & my Estat...
Richard II is in many ways a very “public” play, and most of its scenes take place in crowded courts or halls of government. Previously surrounded by a retinue of attendants, the imprisoned Richard finds himself truly alone for the first time in the play, and he imagines himself as occu...
Lord Burlington (as he was usually known for short from 1664 onwards), along with several other noblemen and Bishops of theChurch of Ireland, were opposed to the attempts ofKing James II of Englandin regard to the restoration of Roman Catholicism and petitioned the King on 17 November 1688 ...
Behind the Okkin, the picturesque forests and fallow fields of England are ablaze. The Okkin fight with their advanced mechanical weaponry whilst the English are armed only with rudimentary tools. Balancing the score, Edward and his brothers stand at the head of the English army, fighting with...
Dawkins spent his early childhood inKenya, where his father was stationed duringWorld War II. The family returned to England in 1949. In 1959 Dawkins entered Balliol College,Oxford, where he received abachelor’s degreeinzoologyin 1962. He remained at Oxford, earning master’s and doctorate deg...
How we can skip across these centuries. Let’s take something from the history books, say, the accession of James II of England in 1685. Unutterably distant, no? Well, I can trace a person-to-person connection to that year in only nine degrees of separation. And without Kevin Bacon en...
John Willis Sr. was not the only person from Wantage, England, in the Province. A common labourer named Henry Willis came to Maryland in August 1684 at age 21 on theJohn & Elizabethbound to John Moore of London for four years2. The ship’s record names Henry’s father as Leonard Willi...
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George, patron saint of England, together with his wife Elisabeth Siddell (or other paramours) as the Egyptian Princess Sabra, whom Richard Johnson had created to be St. George’s wife/reward in his Elizabethan-era retelling of the George-and-dragon myth, Seven Champions of Christendom (1596)...
I wonder why they didn’t issue this at the time, and why the mono version of ‘Get Down With It’ wasn’t included as a cd bonus track at least? As for Charles White’s statement that this is the greatest rock and roll record ever recorded in England, he just might be right. ...