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On one occasion "the Tyrant himself examined him", trying unsuccessfully to persuade Wyatt to change sides. Eventually, in 1485, he was released from imprisonment, from where is not known, and received the thanks of the newly crowned Henry VII. His first recorded grant was on 11 October 1485 when he was appointed keeper of Norwich castle and ...
The Book of the Courtier was one of the most widely distributed books of the 16th century, with editions printed in six languages and in twenty European centers. [4] The 1561 English translation by Thomas Hoby had a great influence on the English upper class's conception of English gentlemen. [5]
Some ciphered letters from the castle found with Archibald Douglas during the Marian Civil War were deciphered by a schoolmaster in Leith, or a Mr Peters. [47] In July 1581, Walsingham sent Somers an intercepted letter of Mary, Queen of Scots, entirely written in code. Elizabeth had requested that Somers decipher it. [48]
Newspaper editor in Boston; founded the first regularly published newspaper in the British colonies in America, The Boston News-Letter Mathew Carey 1760–1839 Irish-born American publisher and economist from Philadelphia, founder of The Pennsylvania Herald , with the help of Benjamin Franklin and Lafayette
Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (née Harington; 1581–1627) was a major aristocratic patron of the arts and literature in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, the primary non-royal performer in contemporary court masques, a letter-writer, and a poet.
Among the most notable publications criticizing the Acts was a work entitled, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, written by John Dickinson, consisting of twelve letters, which were widely read and reprinted in many newspapers throughout the thirteen colonies, playing a major role in uniting the colonists against the Crown and Parliament and ...
Another of the oldest known courtesy books of Germany, is the learning-poems of "Winsbecke" and "Winsbeckin", written around 1220 by an anonymous author. The oldest known courtesy book from Italy around 1215/16 is the Der Wälsche Gast by Thomasin von Zirclaere , speaking to a German audience.
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈ tʃ ɔː s ər / CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [1] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". [2]