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	Earl of Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Earl of Oxford was one of the oldest titles in the English peerage, and was held for several centuries by the de Vere family.
		Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is perhaps the most famous of the line, due to the claims put forward by some that he was the actual author of the works of William Shakespeare (see Shakespearean authorship).
		The Vere Earls of Oxford were also hereditary holders of the office of Lord Great Chamberlain until the death of the 18th Earl in 1625.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_of_Oxford (525 words)

	The Gray Lady Flirts With the Earl of Oxford
		Oxford's verse received some mild contemporary praise, but he was rarely listed among the outstanding poets of the age.
		By 1586 the earl was bankrupt and needed royal financial assistance to keep up his station as the senior member of the English nobility.
		Oxford, if he was the annotator, scarcely noticed the Gospels (fewer than a dozen verses marked), while Shakespeare alludes to them frequently.
	stromata.tripod.com /id284.htm (1762 words)

	Britannica on the 17th Earl of Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		That Oxford might be the author of Shakespeare's plays was first advanced in a major way in "Shakespeare" Identified in Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford (1920), a study by J. Thomas Looney.
		Oxford's interest in the drama extended beyond noble patronage, for he himself wrote some plays, though there are no known examples extant.
		A further claim is that Oxford assumed a pseudonym in order to protect his family from the social stigma attached to the stage and also because extravagance had brought him into disrepute at court.
	www.ai.fh-nuernberg.de /Professors/wermuth/Spiel/Brit_on_Ed.html (381 words)

	This Star of England - Chapter 5
		The Earl of Oxford hath gotten him a wife—or at least a wife hath caught him; this is Mistress Anne Cecil; whereunto the Queen hath given her consent, and the which hath caused great weeping, wailing, and sorrowful cheer of those who had hoped to have that golden day.
		Oxford must have prevailed, at least to some extent, with Burghley, for he informed the Queen "that there was no law in England by which the Duke of Norfolk could be executed for intriguing to marry Mary Queen of Scots." Whereupon Elizabeth, her patience snapping, turned upon him.
		Later circumstances indicate that the Earl of Oxford had already begun writing masques and "enterludes," two or perhaps three or even four of which he was to develop recognizably into plays recorded as performed at court during the late 1570's and early 1580's.
	www.sourcetext.com /sourcebook/Star/ch05.html (3988 words)

	The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford (1550-1604)
		The Earl flirted with Catholicism but in late 1580 he denounced a group of Catholic friends to the Queen, accusing them of treasonous activities and asking her mercy for his own, now repudiated, Catholicism.
		Among the 33 works dedicated to the Earl, six deal with religion and philosophy, two with music and three with medicine, but the focus of his patronage was literary, for 13 of the books presented to him were original or translated works of literature.
		In 1920 the Earl of Oxford was put forward as the true author of the works of William Shakespeare by J. Thomas Looney in his Shakespeare Identified in Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
	www.luminarium.org /renlit/deverebio.htm (1052 words)

	Authorship Page
		Yahoo, this website does NOT "promot[e] the Earl [of Oxford] as the true author of the works credited to Shakespeare." Rather, it recognizes William Shakespeare as the true author of the works credited to William Shakespeare.
		Statement on Shakespeare and Oxford, with a summary conclusion, delivered as the opening position paper in a debate with Charles Vere earl of Burford, at the University of California, Berkeley, 24 April 1997.
		Oxford's spelling reveals that the English at his command was not that of the ordinary nobleman or Londoner of his day.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~ahnelson/authorsh.html (373 words)

	Earl of Oxford and the Order of the Garter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Oxford was forbidden from Court until June 1583 as a result of having a son by Anne Vavasour in March 1581.
		That Oxford was fully restored to the proper status of his rank in the period 1585-8 is shown by the Garter elections and proffers of two military commands.
		Oxford's loss of his father-in-law's vote is easily explained by Anne Cecil's death in 1588, but his failure to get anyone else's vote seems to indicate that he was living under something of a cloud in this period.
	www.everreader.com /garter.htm (3779 words)

	Who Was Shakespeare? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Oxford was born in 1550, the only son of the sixteenth Earl of Oxford.
		Oxford was very different from the Shakespeare of Stratfordian biography, very different from the Shakespeare whom Rowse described as "this busy, prudent, discreet man...with his good nature and good business sense".
		The suppression of the Oxford theory, Ogburn argues, is similar to the suppression of the theory of continental drift (that is, the theory that the continents had at one time been joined together, and later drifted apart).
	members.aol.com /soren/shak1.htm (4583 words)

	The Earl of Oxford's Water Bottle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was never a member of the Order of the Garter, but several of his forebears were.
		It strikes me that the likeliest explanation is that the water bottle in question had been the property of an Oxford ancestor, and was perhaps returned to Oxford by the Queen in the year 1594.
		This object seems to be either a gift from Elizabeth to Oxford, or one of the Ewery objects from the family past that was reinscribed or rededicated in 1594.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Thebes/4260/ewer.html (294 words)

	Free-CliffNotes.com - Authorship Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For a host of persuasive but commonly disregarded reasons, the Earl of Oxford has quietly become by far the most compelling man to be found behind the mask of Shake-speare.
		In short, from the profound (Oxford's mother quickly remarried upon the untimely death of her husband) to the picayune (Oxford was abducted by pirates on a sea voyage), Hamlet's Mouse-trap captures the identity of its author.
		Both Oxford and Bertram refused to consummate their vows--and both eventually impregnated their wives by virtue of a bed trick (the strange and almost unbelievable stratagem wherein the husband thinks he is sleeping with another woman but is in fact sleeping with his own wife).
	www.free-cliffnotes.com /data/gd/sra36.shtml (2152 words)

	The de Vere Star
		When the 18th Earl died without an heir of his body, the succession to the title was disputed by Robert, 11th Lord Willoughby de Eresby, a rich and influential peer, as heir general, and by Robert de Vere, a poor captain in the army of the United Provinces (in Holland), as heir male.
		It was worn also by the army of the Earl of Oxford at the Battle of Barnet in 1471, when, as he rode to join his ally, Warwick the Kingmaker, it was mistaken in the morning mists for the badge of their enemy, Edward IV, the white rose-en-soleil, the shining rose.
		The Earl of Warwick charged, the Earl of Oxford fled, the Kingmaker was killed, the battle was lost, Henry VI was murdered, and the House of Lancaster, so fervently supported by the de Vere family, was destroyed.
	www.baronage.co.uk /bphtm-02/moa-11.html (1063 words)

	Was Oxford Shakespeare? A Computer-aided Analysis
		Oxford's best, mean, and worst scores were 233.81, 356.94 and 490.47, respectively, all worse than Shakespeare's worst.
		Hence, Oxford's mismatches with Shakespeare on feminine endings do little to disprove his candidacy -- unless one accepts the assertions of leading Oxfordian scholars that the true dates of Shakespeare's plays are 20 years earlier than is now supposed.
		If they were written by the Earl of Oxford, he must, after taking the name of Shakespeare, have undergone several stylistic changes of a type and magnitude unknown in Shakespeare's accepted works.
	shakespeareauthorship.com /elval.html (2352 words)

	The Earl of Oxford Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The 2nd of the 2 brothers was Philip Herbert (Susan,s husband) and William Herbert Earl of Pembroke.
		(Oxford was 44) and the bass was in the Ovid.
		* Before Oxford became Earl he was Viscount of Bulbeck his crest was a lion brandishing a lance or a shakes spear the jousting spear in the crest was broken indicating a victory w/a solid hit.
	www.cc.utah.edu /~mp2434/541con.html (1053 words)

	Oxford Statement
		Oxford soon began sleeping in other beds, and Anne became pregnant in October 1574 only by her personal intervention in the household arrangements at Hampton Court - in effect, giving Oxford no option but to spend the night in her bedchamber.
		Both in the brutality of their tactics and in their immunity from the law, the nearest parallels to the Earl of Oxford and Sir Thomas Knyvett in the London of Queen Elizabeth are Al Capone and Dion O'Banion, Bugs Moran and Johnny Torrio in the Chicago of the 1920s.
		Oxford's injury, the burial of an infant son on 9 May 1583, and stern words from Elizabeth finally compelled an about-face.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~ahnelson/oxposit.html (1731 words)

	Oxford's Will at The Colony Theatre
		Oxford’s Will takes no "one-or-the-other" stance, but advances an intriguing "what if?" — that Will Shakespeare and the Earl of Oxford were, through circumstances, put under the same roof.
		This play speculates that Oxford was Shakespeare’s major experience and influence, the source of "a lifetime of knowledge" that would enable a rustic merchant’s son to write what most believe he wrote.
		Oxford’s Will is about people’s needs, one person for another, and the human frailties that interfere.
	www.colonytheatre.org /shows/OxfordsWill.html (476 words)

	The Place 2 Be: Why Oxford wasn't Shakespeare
		Earl of Oxford, inherited vast tracts of land and property as a nobleman; he was Lord Great Chamberlain; he had tin mine investments in Cornwall; he could afford to travel extensively in Europe and even built a house in Venice.
		Oxford was a published poet and playwright himself: a selection of Oxford's poetry appeared in a 1575 publication named Paradise of Dainty Devices and Puttenham referred to a comedy that Oxford had at least a hand in that is now lost.
		Oxford certainly did not have twins, but whilst the prevalence of twins in the Shakespeare canon is not proof of anything in itself, the author's preoccupation with such characters is noteworthy.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Troy/4081/Oxford.html (7909 words)

	Beginner's Guide to the Shakespeare Authorship Problem
		Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was a recognized poet and playwright of great talent, and although no play under Oxford's name has come down to us, his acknowledged early verse and his surviving letters contain forms, words, and phrases resembling those of Shakespeare.
		Arthur Golding was the Earl of Oxford's uncle and lived in the Cecil household during the time that Oxford was a ward of Cecil's.
		It is interesting to note, however, that the Earl of Oxford had an estate, Bilton Hall, the grounds of which at the time of his occupancy were bounded by the Avon River on one side and by the Forest of Arden on another.
	www.shakespeare-oxford.com /guide.htm (3313 words)

	Shakespeare Authorship
		The Seventeenth Earl of Oxford was a recognized poet in his own day, and Oxfordians make the most of this fact in their attempts to prove that he actually wrote the works of Shakespeare.
		Oxford was praised in print as a poet and playwright when he was alive, a fact which Oxfordians understandably try to use to their advantage.
		Oxford was a twig on the deVere Family Tree, though that does not mean he was Shakespeare.
	shakespeareauthorship.com (6200 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Vere, Aubrey de (20th Earl of Oxford)
		With his death this line of the Earls of Oxford became extinct.
		Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is perhaps the most famous of the line, due to the claims put forward by some that he was the actual author of the works of William Shakespeare
		Aubrey, 20th Earl of Oxford, had no sons and when he died in 1703 this famous title became extinct.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/4209.php (228 words)

	The Ashbourne Portrait: Why It's Not the Earl of Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		and that X-ray photographs reveal it to be a painted-over portrait of Oxford, and that the ring the subject is wearing carries Oxford's emblem of a boar...
		Barrell claimed that the original portrait had been of the Earl of Oxford; he claimed that a coat of arms visible in his X-ray photos was that of the Earl's second wife, and that the subject's ring depicted a boar, one of the Earl's symbols.
		Some of the paint was removed, and it turned out that the coat of arms in the painting was not that of Oxford's second wife at all, but that of Sir Hugh Hamersley, a prominent member of the Haberdasher's Company and onetime Lord Mayor of London.
	shakespeareauthorship.com /ashbourne.html (460 words)

	Oxford and the Armada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The idea that Oxford saw action against the Armada may be traced to such biographers as Ward, who takes a contemporary ballad at face value (p.
		The graphic description of the Earl "standing on the hatches" with the Boar on his helmet "foaming for inward ire" conveys the impression that the ballad was written by someone who actually saw Oxford standing in full armour on the deck of his ship.
		John Knox Laughton, the great nineteenth-century authority on the Armada who assembled more documentary evidence on the subject than anyone before or since, considered the list of noble warriors which occurs in the literary-historical tradition: he concluded that it was unlikely that those not mentioned in known historical documents did in fact serve.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~ahnelson/oxarmada.html (540 words)

	AllRefer.com - Harley, Robert, 1st earl of Oxford (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Harley, Robert, 1st earl of Oxford 1661–1724, English statesman and bibliophile.
		The unpopularity of the War of the Spanish Succession and the uproar caused by the trial of Henry Sacheverell brought the fall of the Whigs, and Harley came to power with Henry St.
		He survived an attempt on his life in 1711 and was made earl and lord treasurer.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Harley-R.html (430 words)

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		England, a bordure argent.* EDMUND OF WOODSTOCK (a royal manor near Oxford), Earl of Kent, the youngest son of Edward I; NDNP.
		Or fretty gules, a canton ermine.* NOEL, Earls of Gainsborough, NKNP.
		His elder daughter Anne married Edmund Stafford, Earl of Stafford, and their son Humphrey succeded as Earl of Stafford and Buckingham and Constable of England, and was created Duke of Buckingham in 1444.
	www.pvv.ntnu.no /~bcd/rolemaster/novi/her-list.txt (18606 words)

	Shakespeare - Mysteries of History - U.S. News Online
		The 17th Earl of Oxford died in 1604, before a third of the plays were published, but his supporters argue that they could have been written and kept under wraps or that the publication dates are inaccurate.
		The 1623 First Folio of collected works is dedicated to the young Earl of Southampton, de Vere's son-in-law, with whom he is reputed to have had a homosexual affair.
		Shakespeare Oxford Society offers A Beginner's Guide to the Shakespeare Authorship Problem, including sections on the history of doubt, famous skeptics, and a comparison of de Vere with Shakespeare.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/doubleissue/mysteries/shakespeare.htm (1177 words)

	frontline: the shakespeare mystery: Debate Listing \| PBS
		The jury found for the Earl of Oxford, four ballots; for William Shakespeare, ten ballots.
		Charles Vere, the Earl of Burford, trustee of the
		(The Earl of Oxford died in 1604, before a number of the plays were thought to have been written.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/debates/mtrial.html (626 words)

	The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts: Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts: Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604)@ HighBeam Research
		Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604)
		He is suggested by some as the real author of Shakespeare's works.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28923954&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (159 words)

	Earl of Oxford . com - VERE EARLS OF OXFORD
		He founded Earl's Colne Priory in 1105, and after the death of Beatrice he became religious and took vows as a monk.
		Juliana Vere, married Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, 8.
		Rohesia Vere, married (1) Geoffrey Mandeville, Earl of Oxford, and (2) Payne Beauchamp, of Bedford.
	www.earlofoxford.com /eo00.htm (1158 words)

	Shakespeare Resource Center - The Great Debate
		Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford: This contemporary of Shakespeare has been strongly advanced since the 1930s as the true author of Shakespeare's plays.
		A well-educated and well-traveled nobleman of Queen Elizabeth I's court, de Vere has been championed by the author Charlton Ogburn using parallels of the Earl's life with material from the plays—for instance, noting similarities between Polonius of Hamlet and the Earl's guardian, William Cecil.
		The Earl of Oxford apparently stopped his literary pursuits at an early age—unless, as Ogburn postulates, the Earl continued writing under the pen name of William Shakespeare.
	www.bardweb.net /debates.html (875 words)

	The Earl of Oxford as Spenser's "Perfecte Pattern of a Poet, Cuddie"
		These lines of Cuddie's are reminiscent of certain verses by the Earl of Oxford, written in commendation of and published with Bedingfield's translation (1576) of Cardanus' Comfort, of which the last stanza follows:
		Spenser puts Oxford's thought so clearly into Cuddie's part of the dialogue in the October eclogue that we must perforce consider further the possibility of his intention to represent Oxford as Cuddie.
		Oxford, however, was a friend and follower of Lord Chamberlain Sussex, who was bitterly antagonistic to Leicester.
	www.shakespearefellowship.org /virtualclassroom/Cuddie.htm (760 words)

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