Thomas Usk (died 4 March 1388) was appointed the under-sheriff of London by Richard II in 1387. His service in this role was brief and he was hanged in...
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Usk (Welsh: Brynbuga) is a town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Newport. It is located on the River Usk, which is...
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Usk is a Welsh town. Usk or USK may also refer to: River Usk Usk Castle Usk Reservoir Usk Hundred, an ancient administrative division HM Prison Usk Usk...
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inclusion of Thomas Usk's Testament of Love in the first edition. The Testament of Love imitates, borrows from, and thus resembles Usk's contemporary...
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Caerleon (redirect from Caerleon-on-Usk)
Caerllion) is a town and community in Newport, Wales. Situated on the River Usk, it lies 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Newport city centre, and 5.5 miles (9 km)...
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Adam of Usk (Welsh: Adda o Frynbuga, c. 1352–1430) was a Welsh priest, canonist, and late medieval historian and chronicler. His writings were hostile...
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practices in business. A servant of Northampton's during his mayoralty was Thomas Usk who, after being arrested in 1384 by Northampton's rival Nicholas Brembre...
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The Usk Reservoir (Welsh: Cronfa Wysg) is located in the upper Usk Valley, at 1,006 feet (307 m) above sea level, in the western part of the Brecon Beacons...
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FC Liefering (redirect from USK Anif)
Salzburg signed a cooperation with FC Pasching (Regionalliga Mitte) and USK Anif (Regionalliga West). The coach of the Juniors, Gerald Baumgartner, left...
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University Press. OCLC 1404665. p. 25 [3] Waldron, Ronald (2008) [2004], "Usk, Thomas (c.1354–1388)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.)...
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The Sessions House at Usk, Wales, is a Victorian courthouse by Thomas Henry Wyatt of 1877. It is a Grade II* listed building as of 4 January 1974. The...
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2017-18 off-season. In 2018, Thomas signed with USK Praha of the Czech League for the 2018-19 off-season. On April 15, 2023, Thomas was named the Defensive...
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298–299. Thomas Usk; John Leyerle; Gary Wayne Shawver (2002). Testament of Love. University of Toronto Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780802054715. Thomas Tyrwhitt...
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archbishop 1371 – Jeanne d'Évreux, queen consort of France (b. 1310) 1388 – Thomas Usk, English author 1484 – Saint Casimir, Polish prince (b. 1458) 1496 – Sigismund...
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Towneley (1746) Thomas Usk (1388) Andrey Vlasov (1946) Perkin Warbeck (1499) Richard Whiting (1539) James Wilson (1820) Robert Wintour (1606) Thomas Wintour (1606)...
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painter (d. 1462) Yiğit Şahiner, Turkish musician, historian March 4 – Thomas Usk, English author August 14 – James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (killed...
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"Hamitic"; Cooper believes the source may be the Testament of Love of Thomas Usk. Jacob's suggestion of another source for the work, a Book of the Lineage...
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Newport, Wales (redirect from Newport-on-Usk)
[kasˈnɛwɨð]) is a city and county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, 12 mi (19 km) northeast...
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the Age of Chaucer 25 (2003): 225-57 'Usk and the Goldsmiths', New Medieval Literatures 9 (2008): 139-77 'Thomas Usk and John Arderne', Chaucer Review 47...
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Porth-y-carn, Porthycarne Street, Usk, Monmouthshire is an early 19th-century Neoclassical villa. Built c. 1834 for Thomas Reece, the agent of the "iron king"...
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Brecon (category River Usk)
Honddu, which meets the River Usk near the town centre, a short distance away from the River Tarell which enters the Usk a few hundred metres upstream...
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Urban (born 1961), military writer J. O. Urmson (1915–2012), philosopher Thomas Usk (died 1388), poet Sarah Elizabeth Utterson (1781–1851), gothic short story...
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Sir John Cary Chief Baron of the Exchequer who were exiled to Ireland. Thomas Usk (author of The Testament of Love) and John Blake, members of Brembre's...
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Street Bridge Newport, M4 motorway Usk bridge Newport Transporter Bridge Waterloo Bridge, Betws-y-Coed, by Thomas Telford List of railway bridges and...
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David Hanmer, Welsh judge, father-in-law of Owain Glyndŵr 1388 March 4 – Thomas Usk, English author August 14 – James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (killed...
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Welsh: Guent) was a medieval Welsh kingdom, lying between the Rivers Wye and Usk. It existed from the end of Roman rule in Britain in about the 5th century...
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love as expressed in the Consolation. Works by later writers, such as Thomas Usk and John Walton, made use of Chaucer's translation. Rosalyn Rossignol...
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rebellion. Early in 1406, Owain's forces suffered defeats at Grosmont and Usk, in the south east of Wales. Despite the initial successes of the rebellion...
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(executed) 20 February – Nicholas Brembre, merchant (executed) 4 March – Thomas Usk, author (executed) 5 May – Simon de Burley, Lord Warden of the Cinque...
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on the later English poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1342-1400), Thomas Usk (d. 1388), and John Gower (ca. 1330-1408). Chaucer's parody in the Nun's...
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