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Hace 3 días · Sir Valentine Browne, of Totteridge, Crofts and Hoxton, was constable-warden, victualler and treasurer of Berwick. Became auditor-general of Ireland. Obtained by purchase and patent the large estates in Ireland of Donald, earl of Glencare.
Hace 3 días · February 1573, 1-15. 747. Italian Advices. 1. From Vienna, 18 Feb. 1573.—Reports about the Prince of Orange and the Elector of Saxony. Suppression of the revolt in Styria. Preparations for war at Constantinople. 2. From Venice, 28 Feb.—Warlike preparations of the Turk and the League.
Hace 4 días · Notes on the aldermen, 1502-1700. 1502. Henry Kebyll. He gave £1,000 for the rebuilding of St. Mary's Aldermary Church, where he was afterwards buried, but 'his bones were unkindly cast up' (Stow, i., 253). Two later Lord Mayors, Sir William Laxton (1544–5) and Sir Thomas Lodge (1562–3) were buried in his vault. 1504.
Hace 2 días · Thomas Cromwell (/ ˈ k r ɒ m w əl,-w ɛ l /; c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.. Cromwell was one of the most powerful proponents of the English Reformation, and the creator of true ...
Hace 3 días · All that makes Winter King a very difficult book to review fairly, particularly in a forum such as this. Penn’s book re-examines the reign of Henry VII, one of the most misunderstood of English kings. The reign sits uncomfortably on the borders between the Middle Ages and modernity, and the standard biography remains Stanley Chrimes’s 1972 ...
Hace 6 días · The new earl of Norfolk, he maintains, was certainly a good citizen, especially during Edward's absence in the years to 1274 and in Wales and Scotland, for example. He was placed under pressure by the king's quo warranto campaign and by demands that he pay back his debts to the Exchequer, the sum of which he disagreed with on more than one occasion.
Hace 5 días · June 1813, Iran (aged 44) William George Browne (born July 25, 1768, London, England—died June 1813, Iran) was a British traveler in Central Africa and the Middle East and the first European to describe Darfur, a Muslim sultanate of Billād al-Sūdān, now part of Sudan. Browne was forcibly detained in Darfur (1793–96) and published his ...
