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    Francis Douce (/ˈdaʊs/ DOWS; 1757 – 30 March 1834) was a British antiquary and museum curator. Douce was born in London. His father was a clerk in Chancery...
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    Sir Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave KCB (28 June 1829 – 13 July 1904) was a British civil servant who was Clerk of the House of Commons. Reginald Palgrave...
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  • 1172) Francis Douce (1757–1834), English antiquary Roland Douce (1939–2018), plant biologist Douce River (Dominica) Douce River (Grenada) Douce noir,...
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    of Gammer Gurton's Garland: Or, The Nursery Parnassus, collected by Francis Douce, now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford: Yankey Doodle came to town, How...
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    Christie's by William Wilson in 1833. It was acquired the same year by Francis Douce, who left his collection to the Bodleian Library at the University of...
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    Oxford University, has a small collection, including cards collected by Francis Douce. The Oriental section has two sets from the 19th century (MS.Sansk d...
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  • (1827–1919), banker, editor of The Economist and writer Sir Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave (1829–1904), Clerk of the British House of Commons John Palsgrave...
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    of February 14. English 18th-century antiquarians Alban Butler and Francis Douce, noting the obscurity of Saint Valentine's identity, suggested that...
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    benefite of the mind as the bodie. London: Thomas East. OCLC 606501035. Francis Douce, Illustrations of Shakespeare (1807) via Google Books Harder, Dan. The...
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    Strmiska, Modern paganism in world cultures, ABC-CLIO, 2005, p. 68. Francis Douce, Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners, 1807, p. 235-243...
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    to this volume, and very likely its editor, was the literary scholar Francis Douce. A fourth edition, limited to 112 copies, was published in Glasgow in...
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    delivering his bowl. A 14th-century manuscript, Book of Prayers, in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, contains a drawing in...
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  • noted Butler's inventive confusion, noted that it was embellished by Francis Douce, in Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners, new ed. London...
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    1859 Sarah Maria Brightwen, daughter of George Brightwen. Sir Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave KCB (1829–1904), Clerk of the House of Commons 1886–1902. Married...
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    [citation needed] A copy is owned by the Bodleian Library (bequest of the Francis Douce collection), and in the U.S., by the Huntington Library and Yale University...
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    Manuscripts, collected by Thomas Carte (1686–1754) The Douce Manuscripts, donated to the library by Francis Douce in 1834 The Laud Manuscripts, donated to the library...
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    experience in this area and sought the help of antiquaries such as Francis Douce and Sir Samuel Meyrick. The research involved sparked Planché's latent...
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    Romances (3 vol. 1827-1828), was published with encouragement from Francis Douce, and gave versions of English tales such as "Robert the Devyl, Thomas...
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  • named Alice and a son Nicholas. The date of his death is uncertain. Francis Douce, who fully investigated the matter, concluded that he died shortly after...
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  • The first facsimile edition of the Shakespeare First Folio, edited by Francis Douce, is published in London by Edward and Joseph Wright. Benjamin Tabart...
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    Irma la douce ([iʁ.ma la dus], "Irma the Sweet") is a 1956 French musical with music by Marguerite Monnot and lyrics and book by Alexandre Breffort. The...
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    Derbyshire within the memory of persons now living", and that the antiquary Francis Douce (1757–1834) had a friend who remembered it "when young" in Edinburgh...
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  • (1909–1949, Tunisia, f/d/nf) Thomas Doubleday (1790–1870, England, nf) Francis Douce (1757–1834, England, nf) Sarah Doudney (1841–1926, England, f/p) Lucy...
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  • Doran (1807–1878, England, S/H) Andrew Dornenburg (born 1958, US, C) Francis Douce (1757–1834, England, H) Edward Doubleday (1810–1849, England, Nh) Henry...
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  • Ellis at The Cedars for a week with their friends Richard Heber and Francis Douce. While staying with Ellis and his wife, Scott read the first two or...
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    with additional notes by, among others, Joseph Ritson, George Ashby, Francis Douce, Thomas Park, and the editor, Richard Price. The 1840 edition, by Richard...
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  • them complete. One copy formerly belonged to the Shakespearean scholar Francis Douce, and is now preserved in the Bodleian Library. It is a small volume...
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    Street: collectors such as Heber, Grenville, and Francis Douce were among his customers, and Douce became a lifelong friend. With bookselling he combined...
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    experience in this area and sought the help of antiquaries such as Francis Douce and Sir Samuel Meyrick. The research involved sparked Planché's latent...
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    keeper of manuscripts in the British Museum, on the resignation of Francis Douce; but the vacancy was already filled. Unmarried, Taylor lived with his...
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