battle of Kinsale
1601.Around 4,000 Spanish troops sent to assist Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, against Elizabeth I landed in September 1601 at Kinsale, where they were besieged by Lord Mountjoy, who had taken over ...
Dunmowe
Little Dunmow, near Chelmsford in Essex. When the Wife of Bath says of her suffering husbands (III.218) ‘the bacon was nat fet [fetched] for him … | That som men ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
a county in the south-east of England.
Essex girl a derogatory term applied to a type of young woman, supposedly to be found in and around Essex, and variously characterized as ...
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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
the English county (between Suffolk and the Thames). Chaucer's family had been merchants in Ipswich nearby, but he mentions the
Francis Bacon
(1561–1626). English statesman and philosopher;Bacon counts as one of the first English empiricists and was a supporter of the inductive method (the “Baconian” method). He produced a strong critique ...
Henry Wriothesley
(1573–1624).Wriothesley's father, a catholic, was imprisoned in the Tower 1571–3 under suspicion of encouraging Norfolk's proposed marriage to Mary, queen of Scots. Wriothesley succeeded to the ...
Hugh O'Neill
(c.1550–1616),2nd earl of Tyrone and last inaugurated O'Neill. Hugh was raised in the Pale after the assassination of his father Matthew in 1558. The crown re‐established him in Ulster ...
John Harington
(1560–1612),godson of Queen Elizabeth I. Supposedly at the command of the queen, he translated Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1591), retaining the ottava rima of the original and providing A Preface or ...
Plymouth
Owes its importance to the magnificent estuary into which drain the rivers Plym and Tamar. The original settlement was at Sutton, the name Plymouth being attached to the harbour. By Leland's time, in ...
