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	Sir Thomas Elyot - LoveToKnow 1911
		Elyot himself says in the preface to his Dictionary that he was educated under the paternal roof, and was from the age of twelve his own tutor.
		Elyot, in a letter addressed to Thomas Cromwell, says that he never received the emoluments of this office, while the barren honour of knighthood conferred on him when he was displaced in 1530 merely put him to further expense.
		As ambassador Elyot had been involved in ruinous expense, and on his return he wrote to Thomas Cromwell, begging to be excused from serving as sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, on the score of his poverty.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Thomas_Elyot (1197 words)

	Thomas ELYOT (Sir)
		Sir Richard Elyot, who held considerable estates in Wiltshire, was made (1503) serjeant-at-law and attorney-general to Elizabeth of York, and soon afterwards was commissioned to act as justice of assize on the western circuit, becoming in 1513 judge of common pleas.
		Elyot, in a letter addressed to Thomas Cromwell, says that he never received the emoluments of this office, while the barren honor of knighthood conferred on him when he was displaced in 1530 merely put him to further expense.
		Elyot coined the word Encyclopaedia, which was first defined in his Latin Dictionary of 1538 as "that lernynge whiche comprehendeth all lyberall science and studies".
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/ThomasElyot.htm (1224 words)

	Thomas Elyot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas was the fruit of Sir Richard Elyot's first marriage with Alice Fynderne, but neither the date nor place of his birth is accurately known.
		Elyot was probably suspected, like Vaughan, of lukewarmness in carrying out the king's wishes, but was nevertheless blamed by Protestant writers.
		William Roper, in his Life of More, says that Elyot was on a second embassy to Charles V in the winter of 1535-1536 and received the news of More's execution while at Naples.
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		Nervous Tension = ~ 109 tinctly premodern, conforming in essentials to that of his predecessors, including, for instance, Thomas Elyot: "Spirite," wrote Elyot in 1541, "is an ayry substance subtyll, styrynge the powers of the body to perfourme theyr operations...
		Thomas Elyot andJuan Luis Vives, offered an educational and linguistic programme for those who wished to pursue the `New Learning'.
		Among those well known to an earlier generation of scholars, Thomas Elyot already stood assured of his position as a writer on political thought, thanks to the rather outdated discussion provided by...
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