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    John Pory (1572–1636) was an English politician, administrator, traveller and author of the Jacobean and Caroline eras; the skilled linguist may have...
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  • John Pory (1502/03–1570) was an English churchman and academic, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Born at Thrapstone, Northamptonshire, Pory...
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  • Pory may refer to: Pory Island, Mumbai John Pory, English government administrator and writer Robert Pory, archdeacon This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    Translated and collected by John Pory. London: G. Bishop. The first translation into English. Leo Africanus; Pory, John (1896). Brown, Robert (ed.)....
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    Robert Ball of Scottow, Norfolk, the uncle of Temperance Flowerdew and John Pory. The romance between Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon is fictionalized in...
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    The History and Description of Africa, Robertypony Brown, ed. Trans. John Pory, 3 vols (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1896), p. 830. E. A. J. Honigmann...
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    Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof (1588–1590), John Pory made his version of Leo Africanus's A Geographical Historie of Africa...
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    Brown (ed.). History and Description of Africa. Vol. 1. Translated by John Pory. New York Franklin. p. 22 (A General Description of all Africa). OCLC 830857464...
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  • 2016-12-12. Oued Beni Barbar at Geoview.info. Leo Africanus, Robert Brown, John Pory, The History and Description of Africa (Cambridge University Press, 3...
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    particular treatise of all the lands undescribed. Translated and collected by John Pory. London: G. Bishop. The first translation into English. Leo Africanus...
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    particular treatise of all the lands undescribed. Translated and collected by John Pory. London: G. Bishop. Masonen, Pekka (2000). The Negroland Revisited: Discovery...
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    Brown (ed.). History and Description of Africa. Vol. 1–3. Translated by John Pory. New York Franklin. OCLC 830857464. (reprinted from London 1896) Luzzatto...
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    as present-day Winton. In 1622, the John Pory Colony led an expedition from Virginia to the Chowan River. (Pory was secretary of the Province of Virginia...
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    the initials of the bride and groom. The writer of court news letters John Pory understood that the masque made an allusion to the Union of the Kingdoms...
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    written by the Duchess of Buckingham, the Countess of Westmorland, and John Pory. John Pory included a brief account of her death in a letter to Thomas Puckering...
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    pp. 131–42, at 132–33 and Young 1841, pp. 230–38, at 230–31. Letter of John Pory to the Earl of Southampton, January 13, 1622/23 in James 1963, pp. 7–8...
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    particular treatise of all the lands undescribed. Translated and collected by John Pory. London: G. Bishop. Levtzion, Nehemia (1973), Ancient Ghana and Mali,...
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  • on the North American mainland. A relation from the Flowerdew family, John Pory, served as secretary to the colony from 1618 to 1622. And when Flowerdew...
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    (1927). The Complete Works of John Webster. Vol. 1. ["The White Devil"]. London: Chatto & Windus. p. 159. Pory, John (1600). A Geographical Historie...
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  • Yeardley. Yeardley designated his secretary, John Pory, a council member, as Speaker of the General Assembly. Pory, however, appears to have acted only as...
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  • Robert (ed.), The History and Description of Africa, vol. 1, translated by John Pory, London: Hakluyt Society. Anfray, F. (2000) [1981], "The Civilisation...
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  • to England, made a short visit at Plymouth with a letter by passenger John Pory, an official of Jamestown, written in praise of the colony. In October...
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    rank of Ensign. In 1621, Ensign Savage (aged about 27 years) accompanied John Pory on trading expeditions to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. He developed...
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  • the efforts of professional correspondents such as Nathaniel Butter, John Pory (a former Secretary of the Virginia Colony), and the Rev. Joseph Mead—all...
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    kind of early news agency; news correspondent (in the literal sense) John Pory sent and received his communications from there, and news-conscious customers...
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  • (sometimes spelled as Popkton) John Porter William Portlock John Pory (Captain) Francis Pott John Powell John Powell Jr. John Powell (Captain) William Powell...
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  • sister Mary Marsham he was the great-uncle of Temperance Flowerdew and John Pory. Another sister, Elizabeth, married William Layer, Mayor of Norwich, and...
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  • Flowerdew's elder sister Mary Flowerdew and her husband Dionysis Rossingham. John Pory, the Secretary to the Colony, was the first cousin of Temperance Flowerdew...
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  • Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston Leo Africanus; John Pory (1896), "Cairo", in Robert Brown (ed.), History and Description of Africa...
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    John Young 1554 William Glyn 1554 Cuthbert Scott 1556 Andrew Perne 1556 John Pory 1557 Robert Brassey 1558 Edmund Cosyn 1559 Andrew Perne 1560 Henry Harvey...
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