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	Sir Godfrey Kneller - Portrait called Sir Charles Sedley, Baronet (1639 ? – 1701) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sir Charles Sedley was born in London in 1639.
		Following the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660, Sedley became an intimate of the king, one of the band of "Wits" led by the Duke of Buckingham who all engaged in nightly “conversations” and debauches.
		Sedley wrote four of the latter, the best of which was the 1687 comedy Belllamira, a brilliant adaptation of Terence’s The Eunuch, itself derived from a lost play by Menander.
	www.steigrad.com /cat/knells01.html (1379 words)

	Charles Sedley -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sedley is famous as a patron of literature in the (additional info and facts about Restoration period) Restoration period, and was the Lisideius of (The outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700)) Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy.
		He was (An elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons) member of parliament for (additional info and facts about New Romney) New Romney in Kent, and took an active and useful part in politics.
		His bon mot at the expense of (The last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)) James II is well known.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_sedley.htm (410 words)

	Encyclopedia: Charles Sedley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		1639 - August 20, 1701), English wit and dramatist, was the son of Sir John Sedley of Aylesford in Kent.
		Sedley is famous as a patron of literature in the Restoration period, and was the Lisideius of Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy.
		He was member of parliament for New Romney in Kent, and took an active and useful part in politics.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Charles-Sedley (408 words)

	[minstrels] Phyllis is my only joy -- Sir Charles Sedley
		Sedley was an active supporter of William and Mary at the time of the 1688 revolution.
		Sedley's plays span the period 1668-87; notable among them is Bellamira (1687), a racy, amusing rehandling of the theme of the Eunuchus of the Roman playwright Terence.
		Sedley though aware of what his lover is up to, still allows her to have her way of practicing some form of deception.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/634.html (673 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Charles Sedley (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir Charles Sedley, English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biographies
		Sir Charles Sedley 1639?–1701, English dramatist and poet, b.
		Famous for his wit, he was a member of the intimate circle of young rakes at the court of Charles II.
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	§20. Sir Charles Sedley. V. The Restoration Drama. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and ...
		The closest immediate follower of Etherege in comedy is Sir Charles Sedley, whose earliest comedy, The Mulberry Garden, 1668, is based, in part, on Molière’s L’École des Maris and is written in that mixture of prose and heroic couplets which Etherege introduced in his Comical Revenge.
		An intimate in the chosen circle of the king, Sedley was as famous for his wit as he was notorious for the profligacy of his life.
		Nevertheless, he appears to have been a capable man of affairs and, as a writer, gained a deserved reputation alike for the clearness and ease of his prose and for a certain poetic gift, more appreciable in his occasional lyrics than in the serious parts of his dramas.
	www.bartleby.com /218/0520.html (355 words)

	DORSETSHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on DORSETSHIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was frequently employed by the government from the accession of Charles until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he joined the king at York, but he disliked the struggle and was constant in his efforts to secure peace.
		1663 Sir Charles Sedley was tried for a gross breach of public decency in Covent Garden, Buckhurst, who had been one of the offenders, was asked by the lord chief justice whether he had so soon forgot his deliverance at that time.
		CHARLES SACKvILLE, 2ND DUKE OF DORSET (1711-1769), an associate of Frederick, prince of Wales, was a member of parliament for many years and a lord of the treasury under Henry Pelham; he died on the 5th of January 1769, when his nephew, John Frederick (I 7451799), became the 3rd duke.
	2.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DO/DORSETSHIRE.htm (3786 words)

	SIR CHARLES SEDLEY - LoveToKnow Article on SIR CHARLES SEDLEY
		The king had seduced his daughter and created her countess of Dorchester, whereupon Sedley remarked that he hated ingratitude, and, as the king had made his daughter a countess, he would endeavour to make the kings daughter a queen.
		Through Catherine, her daughter by her first husband, she was the ancestress of the Barons Mulgrave.
		See The Works of Sir Charles Sed2ey in Prose and Verse (1778), with a slight notice of the author.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEDLEY_SIR_CHARLES.htm (465 words)

	Catherine Sedley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1657 - October 26, 1717), daughter of Sir Charles Sedley was the mistress of King James II of England/VII of Scotland both before and after he came to the throne.
		She was created a countess in 1686, an elevation which aroused much indignation and compelled Catherine to reside for a time in Ireland.
		1730), who was created earl of Portmore in 1703, and she was thus the mother of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore (1700-1785).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catherine_Sedley (191 words)

	Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sackville, who was then Lord Buckhurst, with Sir Charles Sedley and Sir Thomas Ogle, got drunk at the Cock in Bow-street by Covent-garden, and, going into the balcony, exposed themselves to the populace in very indecent postures.
		At last, as they grew warmer, Sedley stood forth naked, and harangued the populace in such profane language, that the publick indignation was awakened; the crowd attempted to force the door, and, being repulsed, drove in the performers with stones, and broke the windows of the house.
		Sedley employed Killigrew and another to procure a remission from the king; but (mark the friendship of the dissolute!) they begged the fine for themselves, and exacted it to the last groat.
	www2.hn.psu.edu /Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/sackville (803 words)

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		Charles Cotton, author of Virgil Travesty, throws in his mite in her praise; though the lines are but poorly writ.
		Charles Gildon, and dedicated to Simon Scroop, Esq; to which is prefixed the history of the Life and Memoirs of our authoress, written by one of the fair sex.
		Charles was performing his duty, in obedience to his father, but as ill fate would have it, the stag made towards the house; and the noise alarming the servants, they hasted out to, see the sport.
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	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology \| Great Houses of Nottinghamshire: Nuttall Temple
		The last of these baronets, Sir Charles Sedley, died at Nuttall Temple, in August of 1778, at a comparatively early age, leaving his property, or at any rate the most important portion of it, which embraced the Nuttall estate, to his daughter, who had married a son of Lord Vernon.
		One of them was a by no means unpopular poet, and it is on record that Charles the Second was partial to the society of this clever man. But the successful versemaker sacrificed his immortality to the tastes of a sensual court; he employed his Muse in the service of corruption, and his name perished.
		Sir Charles Sedley, of Nuttall Temple, the last of the baronets, was the best known member of the family in the town and county.
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /Jacks1881/nuttalltemple.htm (1383 words)

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		Born in Alesford, Kent, Sedley was educated at Wadham College, Oxford.
		He entered the court of King Charles II where he acquired a reputation as a rake and a notable court wit.
		Sedley also had an active and serious career in Parliament.
	www.cs.utah.edu /~goller/books/SEDLEY/BIOG.TXT (181 words)

	Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Baronet -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Sedley attended the University of Oxford but left without taking a degree.
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		The Canadian statesman Charles Tupper was one of the Fathers of Confederation, who in 1867 united the separate provinces of British North America into the Dominion of Canada.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9066560?tocId=9066560 (638 words)

	Royalty Restored or London under Charles II - Chapter XIX
		ondon under Charles II.--Condition and appearance of the thoroughfares.--Coffee is first drunk in the capital.--Taverns and their frequenters.--The city by night.--Wicked people do creep about.--Companies of young gentlemen.--The Duke of Monmouth kills a beadle.--Sir Charles Sedley's frolic.--Stately houses of the nobility.--St. James's Park.--Amusement of the town.--At Bartholomew Fair.--Bull, bear, and dog fights.--Some quaint sports.
		In the third year of the reign of King Charles II., whilst Sir John Robinson was mayor of London town, divers good orders were made by him and his common council for the better service of these watches.
		Sir Charles Sedley and Lord Brockhurst were also notable as having been engaged in another piece of what has been called "frolick and debauchery," when "they ran up and down all night almost naked through the streets, at last fighting and being beaten by the watch, and clapped up all night."
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/english/RoyaltyRestoredorLondonunderCharlesII/chap20.html (2793 words)

	Fuller Family of Sussex - pafg157 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Charles Sedley was christened on 30 Mar 1639.
		Charles I Stuart King of Great Britain was born on 19 Nov 1600 in Dunfirmline, Fifeshire, Scotland.
		She married Charles I Stuart King of Great Britain on 11 May 1625 in Paris, France.
	www3.sympatico.ca /alloydthomas/pafg157.htm (419 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Stage Beauty
		The monarchy has been restored, and Charles II is a fun-loving king whose mistress, Nell Gwynn, whispers mischief in his ear.
		Word of her performance reaches the throne, and Charles (Rupert Everett) is intrigued; a courtier tells him the French have long allowed women on the stage.
		I wonder if the court of Charles II was quite as Monty Pythonesque as the movie has it, and if Nell Gwynn was quite such a bold wench, but the details involving life in the theater feel real, especially in scenes about the fragility of an actor's ego.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041021/REVIEWS/40921005/1023 (931 words)

	Restoration Comedy
		Charles II ascended the throne of England in 1660 at age thirty and reigned until his death in 1685.
		Charles himself was considered a "rake," a successful and skilled pursuer of women, and he boasted a string of beautiful mistresses throughout his reign.
		Patrick Morrah writes that Charles was especially influenced by the French Court of Louis XIV and wanted his own court to imitate its elegance and sophistication (40-4); thus, the emphasis was on fashion, art, wit, and love.
	www.cyberpat.com /shirlsite/essays/restor2.html (5314 words)

	AIM25: Royal College of Physicians: SEDLEY, Lady Catharine (d.1705)
		She married Sir Charles Sedley, wit, dramatic author, and Member of Parliament for New Romney, on 23 February 1656/7 at St Giles-in-the-Fields.
		Her husband, favoured at the court of Charles II, gained a reputation as a patron of literature in the Restoration period, and was the Lisideius of the poet John Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668).
		Lady Sedley was eventually locked up in a madhouse, or confined in a convent, many years before she died (Guthrie, 1913, p.12; Boswell, 1929, p.1058).
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/8/7180.htm (506 words)

	Chapter Scott <i>to</i> Selden of S by Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
		Sedley, Sir Charles (1639?-1701).—Poet, son and heir of a Kentish baronet, was at Oxford and, coming to the Court of Charles II., became one of the most popular and brilliant members of its dissipated circles.
		He was the author of two tragedies and three comedies, now forgotten, though extravagantly lauded in their day, and of some poems and songs, of which the best known are Phyllis and Chloris.
		His only child was the witty and profligate Catherine Sedley, mistress of James II., who created her Countess of Dorset.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/259/1262/23963/1.html (711 words)

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		Sedley was one of those characters who exert a personal fascination over their own age without leaving any works behind them to perpetuate the charm to posterity.
		Charles was so delighted with him, that he is said to have asked him whether he had not obtained a patent from Nature to be Apollo's viceroy.
		Charles Sackville was born on the 24th January 1637.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext06/7lbp310.txt (16152 words)

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		The evidence that Mary Needham, the wife of John Cook, was the daughter of Charles Needham and Elizabeth Sedley, Charles being the youngest son of Charles Needham, the 4th Viscount Kilmorey, is as follows:
		The Will of Edmund Sedley of Ludham, gentleman, dated November 15th, 1707, and probated October 15th, 1709, the unmarried brother of Elizabeth (Sedley) Needham, referred to his sister, Elizabeth Needham, widow, and her children, Charles, Thomas, Robert, Elizabeth, Mary, and Ann.
		At the marriage of Charles Needham and Elizabeth Sedley at Old Buckenham, he is referred to as Charles Needham, Esq., the same being true at his burial at Besthorpe.
	www.compusmart.ab.ca /reamjp/HomePage.html (754 words)

	FOURTEENTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		King James II of ENGLAND Duke of York was born in 1633 in England (House of Stuart) son of Charles I. He was christened in 1660 in England - Duke of York return from exile.
		He was married to Catherine SEDLEY Countess of Dorchester (daughter of Sir Charles SEDLEY and Katherine SAVAGE) in 1678 in (had affair-not married).
		Catherine SEDLEY Countess of Dorchester was born in 1658 in England - dtr of Sir Charles Sedley.
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d4377.htm (452 words)

	Corydon and Phyllis
		The poem is sometimes attributed to Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701).
		Sedley was a prominent member of a group of wits (called the "Merry Gang") in Charles II's court.
		Sedley wrote several plays between 1668-1687, but is best known for his lyrics and translations.
	www.contemplator.com /england/phyllida.html (334 words)

	Rake - Art History Online Reference and Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the Restoration period 1660-1700, the word was used in a glamorous sense: the Restoration rake is a carefree, witty, sexually irresistible aristocrat typified by Charles II's courtiers the Earl of Rochester and the Earl of Dorset, who combined riotous living with intellectual pursuits and patronage of the arts.
		After the reign of Charles II, and especially after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the cultural perception of the rake took a dive into squalor.
		The rake became the butt of moralistic tales in which his typical fate was debtor's prison, venereal disease, or, in the case of William Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, insanity in Bedlam.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Rake (441 words)

	Stage Beauty
		Charles II issues a royal decree, and instantly the stage doors open to women.
		Charles II (played by Rupert Everett) was restored to the throne in 1660 and the 18-year Puritan ban on theatre performances was lifted.
		In 1660, when the Stuart dynasty was restored to the throne of England with the coronation of Charles II, an 18-year ban on public performances was lifted together with the strict Puritan morality of the previous decades under the rule of Oliver Cromwell.
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	George Etherege (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The success of the play was very great, but Etherege waited four years before he repeated his experiment, meanwhile gaining the highest reputation as a poetical beau, and moving in the circle of Sir Charles Sedley, Lord Rochester, and other noble wits of the day.
		In 1668 Etherege brought out She Would If She Could, a comedy in many respects admirable, full of action, wit and spirit, but to the last degree frivolous and immoral; so that we seem to move in an airy and fantastic world, where flirtation is the only serious business of life.
		Sir Fopling Flutter was a portrait of Beau Hewit, the reigning exquisite of the hour; in Dorimant the poet drew the elegant Sir Charles Sedley, and in Medley a portrait of himself; while even the drunken shoemaker was a real character, who made his fortune from being thus brought into public notice.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/etherege001.html (738 words)

	SEDITION - LoveToKnow Article on SEDITION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Under the head of statutes aimed at seditious offences may also be classed statutes of Richard II.
		(1378, 1388) against scandalum magnatum or slander of great men, such as peers, judges or great officers of state, whereby discord may arise within the realm, and a statute of Charles II.
		There has been no prosecution for many years for seditious words as distinguished from seditious libel, but such words have been admitted as evidence in proceedings for seditious conspiracy (q.v.), as in the prosecution of OConnell in 1844 and of C. Parnell and others in 1880 (see Reg.
	36.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SEDITION.htm (969 words)

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