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    John Selden (16 December 1584 – 30 November 1654) was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law...
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    John Selden Roane (January 8, 1817 – April 7, 1867) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the fourth Governor of Arkansas from 1849 to 1852...
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  • Eccleston, Sussex, England. The first known Selden in this family was John, born about 1210. A subsequent John Selden, born in 1584, was a famous English jurist...
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    East Asia formerly owned by the legal scholar and maritime theorist John Selden. It shows a system of navigational routes emanating from a point near...
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    the origin and migration of divine ancestors. The Selden Roll belonged to the English jurist John Selden, who died in 1654 and left his collection of books...
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    Assyria have the same etymology, following a suggestion going back to John Selden (1617). Current modern academic opinion strongly favours the connection...
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    The Selden Society is a learned society and registered charity concerned with the study of English legal history. It functions primarily as a text publication...
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    gentleman? In the 17th century, in Titles of Honour (1614), the jurist John Selden said that the title gentleman likewise speaks of "our English use of...
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  • of the Revolutionary War in 1776, he was a "gentleman cadet" in Captain John Allen Thomas' "Independent" Company, of St. Mary's county and is mentioned...
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    barons, or freemen; however they are not entitled to be styled as such. John Selden writes in Titles of Honour, "The word Baro (Latin for Baron) hath been...
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    The Codex Selden (also known as the Codex Añute) is a Mexican manuscript of Mixtec origin. The codex is an account of the genealogy of the Jaltepec dynasty...
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  • Selden is a surname. Anjelica Selden, an American softballer Annie Selden, expert in mathematics education Armistead I. Selden (1921–1985), American politician...
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    much larger than those consumed today, and oblong shaped; the jurist John Selden presumed that "the coffin of our Christmas-Pies, in shape long, is in...
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    English Adventurers to the Orient: Richard Chancellor, Anthony Jenkinson, James Lancaster, William Adams, Sir Thomas Roe (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1931)...
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  • Laurer Alexander. It was supervised by John Selden Jr., whom she later married as her second husband. Although Selden originally intended to be a research...
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    buildings. A famous resident of (at the time) Heyward's Buildings was John Selden, who was one of the original tenants and shared a set of chambers with...
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    struck a middle-ground between Edward Coke's "appeal to reason" and John Selden's "appeal to contract", while refuting elements of Thomas Hobbes's theory...
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    nominee and former Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives, John Selden Roane, defeated the Whig nominee, Cyrus W. Wilson, by a slim margin of...
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  • sovereignty over the waters around the British Isles. In Mare clausum (1635) John Selden coined the term, endeavoring to prove that the sea was in practice virtually...
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    that bannerets were the origin of King James I's order of the baronet. John Selden, however, points out that the "old stories" often have baronetti as synonyms...
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    Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk in 1667, at the prompting of John Evelyn and John Selden. The remainder were received in a second gift of 1755, when the...
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    citizen could be forced into accepting soldiers into his home. Coke, John Selden and the rest of the Committee for Grievances presented the Resolutions...
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    Local Government Law (legal journal) Selden, J. (1672). Titles of Honor: By the Late and Famous Antiquary John Selden of Inner Temple, Esquire (Third ed...
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    for Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, this inscription was deciphered by John Selden and published among the Arundel Marbles, Marmora Arundelliana (London...
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    1978, p. 66. "John Selden Roane". National Governors Association. Retrieved February 1, 2023. Roberts, Bobby (April 27, 2021). "John Selden Roane (1817–1867)"...
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    John Taylor Selden (March 25, 1893 – May 30, 1964) was a decorated officer of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of lieutenant general. He commanded...
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  • politeness rather than as a specific title. More than two centuries later John Selden, in his Titles of Honor (1614), does not include "honourable" among the...
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  • Lincoln had not written the letters. July 26, 1847: Albert Pike and John Selden Roane. The duel was declared a draw, with no injuries.[citation needed]...
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    jurists of various persuasions, including Sir Edward Coke, John Pym, John Selden, Sir John Eliot, and Thomas Wentworth. Such important evidence was highly...
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    Quadrangle. The medieval section is above the Divinity School and Selden End (named after John Selden a benefactor of the library) is above the Convocation House...
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