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    William Lambarde (18 October 1536 – 19 August 1601) was an English antiquarian, writer on legal subjects, and politician. He is particularly remembered...
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    time around England, Ireland and perhaps Wales, in the company of William Lambarde, during and/or after which he gathered information on Old English manuscripts...
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    matters of antiquarian interest. Members included William Camden, Sir Robert Cotton, John Stow, William Lambarde, Richard Carew and others. This body existed...
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    Manuscripts, p. 231. Raymond J. S. Grant (1996), Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Laws of the Anglo-Saxons, Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, p. 25 Ker...
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    pleader, David Holbache, who founded Oswestry in 1407. According to William Lambarde and Richard Johnson (Nine Worthies of London), Sevenoke was a foundling...
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    a reintroduction of the Old English form attributed to its use by William Lambarde in his A Perambulation of Kent of 1576. In early medieval Britain,...
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    Pian del Carpine, Hakluyt Society, Willem van Ruysbroeck, Geoffrey, William Lambarde, Bede, Ohthere, Wulfstan, John Dee, Florence, Saxo, Ives de Narbonne...
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    Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Laws of the Anglo-Saxons, Volume 108. pp. 27-28 Grant. Laurence Nowell, William Lambarde, and the Laws of the...
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    German humanist, philosopher and historian (d. 1607) October 18 – William Lambarde, English antiquarian, writer on legal subjects, politician (d. 1601)...
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    [which] at this tyme [was] but Village lyke". Soon afterwards, in 1576, William Lambarde described Reculver as "poore and simple". In 1588 there were 165 communicants –...
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  • of Wantsum as "Wansum" is also found. W. Scott Robertson, quoting William Lambarde and W.W. Skeat, offered a similar interpretation with an emphasis on...
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    named Teona, whose name is found in Teonanhyll in Berkshire. In 1590, William Lambarde wrote his book Perambulation of Kent, in which Tenham is called the...
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  • Pian del Carpine, Hakluyt Society, Willem van Ruysbroeck, Geoffrey, William Lambarde, Bede, Ohthere, Wulfstan, John Dee, Florence, Saxo, Ives de Narbonne...
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  • north of the shire. However, the source of the matter goes back to William Lambarde (1536-1601), county historian of Kent, who held the post of Keeper...
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    near Ash were artefacts, thus vastly antedating the antiquity of man. William Lambarde, author of the first English county history, A Perambulation of Kent...
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    "Through the benefite of the river, a seate of more commoditie", observed William Lambarde, in his Perambulation of Kent 1573, noted by Walter Thornbury and Edward...
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    reign of Richard II when she supposedly remarked to her archivist William Lambarde, "I am Richard II, know ye not that?" In the same historical report...
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    in lieu of the gown, giving it in a red purse. Contemporary writer William Lambarde noted that the money was substituted for the gown "to avoid trouble...
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    English came to be particularly associated with antiquarian texts. William Lambarde, John Stow, John Hooker, Michael Drayton, Tristram Risdon, John Aubrey...
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  • the Last Jacobite Insurrection. W. Blackwood and Sons. p. 203.</ref> William Lambarde – Eirenarcha: or of the Office of the Justices of Peace Ostrog Bible...
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    German humanist, philosopher and historian (d. 1607) October 18 – William Lambarde, English antiquarian, writer on legal subjects, politician (d. 1601)...
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    Matthew Parker, John Joscelyn, John Dee, William Fleetwood, William Lambarde, Robert Glover, Henry Savile, William Camden, Henry Ferrers and Thomas Hatcher...
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  • April 10 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (born 1562) August 19 – William Lambarde, English antiquary and lawyer (born 1536) August 31 – Gian Vincenzo...
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    Sir Thomas More, John Record, Barnabe Googe, Abraham Fleming, and William Lambarde. But Scot's information was not only from books. He had studied superstitions...
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  • his ‘Book of Matrimony,’ and Edward Dering his Sparing Restraint. William Lambarde also dedicated to Wotton in 1570 his Perambulation of Kent, which was...
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    He drew on the published and unpublished work of John Leland and William Lambarde, among others, and received the assistance of a large network of correspondents...
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    fundamentally incorrect, and many refer to it as a "myth". The antiquarian William Lambarde published what he believed were the Anglo-Saxon and Norman law codes...
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  • Anna Jagiellon, daughter of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1596) 1536 – William Lambarde, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1601) 1547 – Justus Lipsius...
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  • The post of clerk of the peace was abolished by the Courts Act 1971. William Lambarde (1536–1601) described the custos rotulorum as a man chosen for his...
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    August 19 – William Lambarde, English antiquarian and politician (b. 1536) September 7 – John Shakespeare, English glover, father of William Shakespeare...
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