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	Thomas Elyot - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Thomas Elyot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thomas was the son of his first marriage with Alice Fynderne, but neither the date nor place of his birth is accurately known.
		Elyot, in a letter addressed to Thomas Cromwell, says that he never received the emoluments of this office, while the empty 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.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Thomas-Elyot.html (1158 words)

	Thomas Rymer
		Thomas of Erceldoune, otherwise Thomas the Rhymer, and in the popular style True Thomas, has had a fame as a seer, which, though progressively narrowed, is, after the lapse of nearly or quite six centuries, far from being extinguished.
		Thomas of Erceldoune's prophetic power was a gift of the queen of the elves; the modern elves, equally those of northern Europe and of Greece, resembling in respect to this attribute the nymphs of the ancient Hellenic mythology.
		Thomas salutes the fairy as queen of heaven, A 3, R 11.
	www.tam-lin.org /texts/thomas.html (5769 words)

	Mostly Medieval - Exploring the Middle Ages: Supernatural Ballads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thomas Rhymer Historical research has proven that Thomas of Erceldoune (Earlston) in Scotland was a real person; he witnessed a deed whereby one Ptetrus de Haga obliges himself to make a certain payment to Melrose Abbey.
		In 1294 Thomas de Ercildoun, son and heir of Thomas Rymour of Ercildoune conveyed to a religious house his inheritance of lands.
		Thomas, having found favor with the queen of Elfland, was taken with her to that country and there he remained for seven years.
	www.skell.org /explore/supernatF.htm (336 words)

	Early History of the Lidderdales
		That is enough to show Thomas did his duty, an unpopular duty, and so, being on the losing side, suffered, having no one to defend him and explain and point the defects of the victors, which omission more than one modern writer has made good.
		Crookett, the novelist, mentions Thomas in, more than one of his novels and, being a perfervid admirer of the Covenanters, does not flatter him, calling him, 'hullion', whatever that may mean; opprobious no doubt.
		Thomas rests in Galtway's beautiful kirkyard in the Lidderdale enclosure under his coat of arms.
	www.lidderdale.com /genearly.html (5374 words)

	The Bard of Avalon - Storyteller: Thomas the Rhymer
		Thomas had never seen such a fine velvet mantle as she wore, nor such a fine gown of the grass-green silk.
		Thomas was so enchanted by the Faery Queen that he promised to speak to none but her, and so as night fell once more, they rode on.
		Thomas returned to the Tower of Ercildoun, his mind filled with the strange visions which he had been given.
	bardofavalon.ifrance.com /bardofavalon/storyteller/thomas.html (1097 words)

	CAN Glasgow Local Business & Community Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		At this the stranger, who now seemed to be Thomas of Ercildoun (True Thomas) turned to Dick and said that "the man who shall sound the horn and draw the sword shall, if his heart does not fail him, be the king over all Britain.
		Thomas the Rhymer, was a famous Scottish prophet who is also known as Thomas of Ercildoune, Lord Learmont and True Thomas.
		Thomas took his leave from the castle and was never seen again.
	www.can-glasgow.com /scottish_folklore.php (5931 words)

	Famous Scots - Thomas the Rhymer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Although some of the stories relating to Thomas the Rhymer may be fanciful, there is firm documentary evidence of "Thomas Rimor de Ercildoun" (the modern Earlston, in Berwickshire) witnessing documents in the 1260s.
		Thomas' prophesies were so revered that they were consulted by the Jacobites before the Uprisings in both 1715 and 1745.
		Thomas is believed to have also written a story "Sir Tristrem" which Walter Scott also edited.
	rampantscotland.com /famous/blfamrhymer.htm (250 words)

	CHESTER COUNTY FACTS: education
		Ercildoun Seminary was founded in 1851 by Smedley Darlington as a boy's school, but it soon changed to an all-girls school.
		Smedley Darlington's younger brother, Richard Darlington, bought the Ercildoun Seminary in 1861 and operated it successfully until it was destroyed by a tornado in 1877.
		Richard Darlington he sold the Darlington Seminary (former Ercildoun Seminary) to Frank P. Bye, one-time Superintendent of Schools in Chester County, who continued to operate the school up to the time of publication of this book.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his480/notes/z-educ.htm (2639 words)

	CHESTER COUNTY FACTS: modernization and progress
		The next year, marble from the Thomas quarry was available for the front of the Chester County Bank.
		In 1866, George B. Thomas joined Josiah and Abner Hoopes in their nursery firm as the "office partner" (accountant, presumably).
		The West Chester Board of Trade was organized in 1887, and included Abner Hoopes as one of the directors, and Thomas Hoopes as its president.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his480/notes/z-modern.htm (10061 words)

	Monthly Musing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The common elements of the tale involve Thomas meeting a Faery Queen, falling in love immediately with her beauty, agreeing to accompany her to her realm and to serve her, upon the condition that he not utter a word while there.
		In one variant of the story, the two have fallen in love and have a hard time parting - Thomas continues to ask his lady questions, in order to delay her departure, and she predicts what is ahead for mortals.
		In the other (later) strain of the story, Thomas' journey home is only for a visit, his trip to Faery has left him with the gift of prophecy, and he makes a number of predictions before the Faery Queen summons him back to her service for all eternity.
	www.delacroix.net /muse.html (1782 words)

	SIXTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Thomas Bissell Thorne was born on 6 Aug 1794 in New Jersey.
		He died on 12 Apr 1872 in Ercildoun, East Fallowfield, PA. Info on this line is from FTM, Vol V. He was married to Hannah Davis.
		Hannah Davis was born on 7 Apr 1799 in Doe Run, Chester County, PA. She died in 1859 in Ercildoun, East Fallowfield, PA.
	thorn.pair.com /williamthorne1/d8645.htm (185 words)

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		At this moment, in crossing the threshold of Thomas Dickson's house, they were greeted with sounds from two English soldiers within.
		Thomas of Ercildoun was, according to the Welsh triads, one of the three bards of Britain who never stained a spear with blood, or was guilty either of taking or retaking castles and fortresses, and this far not a person likely, after death, to be suspected of such warlike feats.
		Ere he had fully composed the angry thoughts which were chafing in his mind, the sound of a hunting-bugle was heard at the gate, and from the sort of general stir which it spread through the garrison, it was plain that the governor had returned from his ride.
	www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk /etexts/etexts/castledang_0074.htm (7720 words)

	Danny Carnahan: Journeys of the Heart
		I wrote this song around a very old Child ballad based on the 13th century legend of Thomas Rymer of Ercildoun.
		Thomas was said to have visited the land of Faery and returned with the gift of prophesy and a tongue that could not lie.
		Most recent versions of the ballad leave off at the point where Thomas is taken to the other world, but one 14th century version in Middle English recounts what happened afterwards and how Thomas returned to earth.
	www.dannycarnahan.com /music/journeys.html (503 words)

	Scott's "Thomas the Rhymer, Part Third"
		Thomas the Rhymer was renowned among his contemporaries as the author of the celebrated romance of Sir Tristrem.
		The editor, in 1804, published a small edition of this curious work; which, if it does not revive the reputation of the bard of Ercildoune, is at least the earliest specimen of Scottish poetry hitherto published.
		Note 3: Thomas the Rhymer, Part First and Part Second immediately preceed Part Third in Scott's The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/scottercil.htm (681 words)

	Buninyong History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ercildoun was established a little later, but Buninyong was the hoome staion until 1854, with runs as far west as the Camperdown district.
		Amongst the first settlers in the township of Buninyong were george Gab and George Coleman, employees of the Learmonth brothers.
		The Reverend thomas Hastie was brought to Buninyong in 1847 to open a Presbyterian Church and by 1848 a boarding school had been opened with Mr and Mrs Bedwell as the teaching staff, while Mr and Mrs Hastie cared for the boarders.
	www.buninyong.com /HistoricalBackground/history.htm (447 words)

	Stories of the Corona Montis Saga 1227 A.D.
		The battle between Richard and "Sir Thomas" was to first blood, and though they exchanged blows for quite a while, Elise could never muster enough strength to beat Richard's defense.
		The minstrel, Thomas of Ercildoun, explained that at the spot Brendan's trail disappeared, a faerie rede intersected with the road.
		Here Thomas told them that a vast spectral army rested under the hills themselves, which would be called on to save Scotland in her hour of greatest need.
	home.mebtel.net /~irishman/cumbria/stories_1227.html (5812 words)

	Joseph Brinton Family Papers, 1758-1931 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Born in 1828, the son of William and Gulielma Cooper Brinton of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he attended Westtown School from 1837 and was an assistant teacher there in 1849.
		Brinton moved to Newport, Rhode Island, in 1851; he lived in the household of Thomas B. Gould, a prominent Wilburite minister, and was employed in his mill.
		Joseph rejoined Friends at Ercildoun from 1882 with a certificate from South Kingston Monthly Meeting, but resigned again in 1896 due to the fact that he felt Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was too conciliatory to the Gurneyites.
	www.swarthmore.edu /Library/friends/ead/5233brin.htm (1347 words)

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		Sir Michael Scott: He lived in the latter half of the thirteenth century; was a student of the "occult sciences," and also skilled in theology and medicine.
		He is referred to by Walter Scott as the "wondrous wizard, Michael Scott." Thomas of Ercildoun--called the Rhymer--supposed by Sir Walter Scott, but erroneously, as is now believed, to be the author of "Sir Tristram." _The King of Tars_ is the work of an unknown author of this period.
		In thus disposing of the authors before Chaucer, no attempt has been made at a nice subdivision and classification of the character of the works, or the nature of the periods, further than to trace the onward movement of the language, in its embryo state, in its birth, and in its rude but healthy infancy.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/15176/15176-8.txt (16364 words)

	Ercildoun, Pennsylvania PA, profile (Chester County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Ercildoun, PA Ercildoun is in Chester County, in the Philadelphia-Camden metro area.
		The community was named after Thomas of Ercildoun
		Sections below provide additional information and links about Ercildoun travel and tourism, nearby airports, cemeteries, the Chester County economy, education, environment, genealogy, government, historic sites, Philadelphia area jobs, libraries, maps, museums, newspapers and other media, nonprofit groups, real estate, recreation, religion, transportation, and weather.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=13940 (324 words)

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		JOHN GOWER Very little is told us (as usual in the beginnings of a literature) of the life and private history of Gower, and that little is not specially authentic or clearly consistent with itself.
		It is said that the two poets, who had been warm friends, at last quarrelled, but obscurity rests on the cause, the circumstances, the duration, and the consequences of the dispute.
		His authority in reference to certain disputed matters, such as Wallace's journey to France, and his capture of the Red Rover, Thomas de Longueville, who became his fast friend and fellow-soldier, was not long ago entirely established by certain important documents brought to light by the Maitland Club.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext06/7lbp110.txt (12494 words)

	The Wallace: Selections, Notes
		288 Thomas of Ercildoune, otherwise known as Thomas the Rhymer, is mentioned with other soothsayers in the Scalacronica.
		Sir Thomas Randolph, later earl of Moray and regent of Scotland.
		Thomas Longueville is the French knight (and reformed pirate) who accompanied Wallace from France.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /CAMELOT/TEAMS/wallnts.htm (14746 words)

	Notecards - Western Quarterly Meeting
		There are eleven monthly meetings (meeting weekly for worship and once a month for business and religious concerns) which make up Western Quarterly Meeting which meets once a quarter for mutual affairs, on of the 13 quarters which make up Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Meetings in Delaware, and parts of Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania).
		The active meeting closed in 1980, but annual meetings continued to be held.
		Fallowfield was erected in 1801 at Ercildoun, near Coatesville, and replaced a log building.
	www.localquakers.org /Notecards.html (768 words)

	Lewis J. Henson
		He felt that the injury made Lewis a "cripple." Another Affidavit from Alexander Jones who was in a different Company (same Regiment) essentially made the same statements.
		Lewis was discharged on 20 September 1865 at Wilmington, North Carolina.
		Lewis was also a friend of Edward Spencer and Thomas Coursey, who also served in the Civil War and who are buried in the same cemetery with John.
	pages.prodigy.net /stanley.way/coatesville/lewis_j_henson.htm (840 words)

	Black Agnes - Agnes Randolf, Countess of Dunbar, March and Moray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A marvellous story is told of Patrick, seventh Earl, who during the troublous minority of Alexander III, was one of the chiefs of the English faction.
		Bower, who was born at Haddington 100 years after, relates that, on 11 March 1286, the night preceding King Alexander's death, True Thomas of Ercildoun or EARLSTON, arriving at the castle of Dunbar, was jestingly asked by the Earl if the morrow would bring any noteworthy event.
		Amongst the nobles who fell in the field of Durham, in 1346, was Thomas, Earl of Moray, brother to the heroic Countess of Dunbar.
	www.lammermoor.com /blackagnes/history.html (4922 words)

	A remote Scottish Borders Castle, Hermitage, Roxburghshire, Scotland
		One of its earliest and most unjust owners, the wicked Baron de Soulis, had been convinced of his indestructibility by his spirit familiar, who told him that only a rope of sand could restrain him.
		Luckily for the local inhabitants, the wise wizard, Thomas of Ercildoune, devised a belt of lead with which he girdled the Baron while he was asleep, and into which he poured sand.
		Thus restrained he was taken to an ancient stone circle, Nine Stane Rig, about 2 miles north east of the castle, and boiled to death in a vast cauldron.
	www.aboutscotland.com /hermitage.html (309 words)

	Coatesville Ledger - News - 10/23/2003 - Calendar of Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The business meeting will begin at 11:15 a.m., dessert social at noon, followed by a program entitled "Plant Shop-a-holic." A design class entitled "Pretty Border," a parallel design, will be entered by club members.
		The Fallowfield Historical Society will meet in the People's Hall in Ercildoun at 7:30 p.m.
		Thomas McGuire, historian and author of several books on the American Revolution, will deliver a slide presentation on the Valley Forge winter encampment of 1777-78.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=2245&dept_id=452533&newsid=10397454&PAG=461&rfi=9 (2199 words)

	Page 5C Descendants of James Broomell, s.o. Isaac I. Update 12/22/2000
		Rachel died April 17, 1876 and is buried at Hepzibah Baptist Church, East Fallowfield Twp., Chester Co. PA.
		May 13, 1893, Ercildoun East Fallowfield, Chester Co PA. He was a papermaker.
		June 26, 1884, THOMAS J. STEEN of Brooklyn NY.
	www.springhillfarm.com /broomhall/jas3bromel.html (307 words)

	Notebook
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	www.noteaccess.com /PEOPLE/ThomasE.htm (67 words)

	Historical perspective for Bemersyde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A historical perspective, drawn from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, edited by Francis H. Groome and originally published in parts by Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh between 1882 and 1885.
		The Haigs, or De Hagas, of Norman origin, possessed the lands of Bemersyde as early as the 12th century; and, till a recent period, they always held them in a line of direct descent, thus verifying the prophecy, ascribed to True Thomas of Ercildoun:-
		The crest (540 feet) of a public road over Bemersyde Hill commands a view of the valley of the Tweed from Abbotsford down to the Cheviots; here Scott would always rein up his horse, and here by some accident his hearse was brought for several minutes to a standstill.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/towns/townhistory5219.html (448 words)

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