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	Sir Thomas Overbury - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		SIR THOMAS OVERBURY (1581-1613), English poet and essayist, and the victim of one of the most sensational crimes in English history, was the son of Nicholas Overbury, of Bourtonon-the-Hill, and was born in 1581 at Compton Scorpion, near Ilmington, in Warwickshire.
		It was at this time, too, that Overbury wrote, and circulated widely in MS., the poem called "His Wife," which was a picture of the virtues which a young man should demand in a woman before he has the rashness to marry her.
		The countess contrived to lead Overbury into such a trap as to make him seem disrespectful to the king, and she succeeded so completely that he was thrown into the Tower on the 22nd of April 1613.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Thomas_Overbury (875 words)

	Thomas Overbury Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sir Thomas Overbury (1581 - September 15, 1613), English poet and essayist, and the victim of one of the most sensational crimes in English history, was the son of Nicholas Overbury, of Bourton-on-the-Hill, and was born at Compton Scorpion, near Ilmington, in Warwickshire.
		It was at this time, too, that Overbury wrote, and circulated widely in manuscript, the poem called His Wife, which was a picture of the virtues which a young man should demand in a woman before he has the rashness to marry her.
		The countess contrived to lead Overbury into such a trap as to make him seem disrespectful to the king, and she succeeded so completely that he was thrown into the Tower on April 22, 1613.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/t/th/thomas_overbury.html (773 words)

	Sir Thomas Overbury son
		Overbury was educated at Oxford and entered the Middle Temple, London, in 1598.
		Overbury was knighted in 1608, and Carr became Viscount Rochester in 1611.
		Overbury feared that Rochester's prospective marriage would reduce his own influence over Rochester, however, and he tried strongly to dissuade the latter from marrying her.
	www.connieq.com /main-overbury-thomas.htm (498 words)

	Ron Heisler - Michael Maier and England
		The Overbury affair is the greatest murder scandal of the seventeenth century.
		Overbury, a talented literary man who specialised in creating enemies, was a close friend of the royal favourite Sir Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester - maintaining an extraordinary dominance for a time over this mediocrity.
		Overbury had schemed himself into becoming a crucial player in the plottings of the parliamentary radicals, the so-called "Patriots".
	www.levity.com /alchemy/h_maier.html (2601 words)

	Overbury, Sir Thomas - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The two quarreled violently when Overbury disapproved of Carr's marriage to Frances Howard, divorced wife of the earl of Essex.
		Overbury's hostility was so marked that the Howard family brought pressure to bear, and James I had Overbury imprisoned in the Tower, where he was slowly poisoned.
		Overbury was a notable writer of brief informal essays describing a type or an individual.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Overbury.html (387 words)

	The Murder of Sir Thomas Overbury — 1615
		The case in this instance, of Sir Thomas Overbury in 1615 was to be one of the most sensational recorded in history.
		Overbury regarded the Countess as a very disagreeable woman, and attempted vainly to protect his friend from her actions.
		Seizing her opportunity, the Countess was able to instigate the murder of Overbury by poison while he was being held in the tower.
	www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk /studentwebs/session2/group12/murderto.htm (558 words)

	§14. Sir Thomas Overbury. XVI. London and the Development of Popular Literature. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir ...
		Sir Thomas Overbury was a prominent figure in this society, and, after his death, twenty-one characters were added to the second edition of his poem A Wife (1614), some by himself and others by his friends, as the title admits.
		Their publications were a tribute to the name of the man who had practised and, perhaps, introduced the art, and the interest aroused in his death would ensure a good sale.
		These periphrases, double meanings and obliquities of expression sometimes resemble the scholarly puns of the Italian Latinists; but we must also remember that, in a more ingenuous form, they were the essence of the Tudor books of riddles.
	www.bartleby.com /214/1614.html (703 words)

	Thomas Overbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He seems to have followed the fortunes of Carr very closely, and "such was the warmth of the friendship, that they were inseparable,… nor could Overbury enjoy any felicity but in the company of him he loved [Carr]." When the latter was made Viscount Rochester in 1610, the intimacy seems to have been sustained.
		This fellow, afterwards aided by Mrs Turner, the widow of a physician, and by an apothecary called Franklin, plied the miserable poet with sulfuric acid in the form of copper vitriol.
		The dramatist John Ford wrote a lost work titled Sir Thomas Overbury's Ghost, containing the history of his life and untimely death (1615).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Overbury (850 words)

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		Thomas Overbury, poet and member of the court of James I (1566- 1625), was born in Gloucestershire in 1581.
		Overbury was knighted in 1608 and quickly rose to an eminent position at court because of his friendship with Carr, a particular favorite of King James.
		Overbury became a victim of court intrigue when he opposed the marriage of his friend Carr to Frances Howard, the divorced wife of Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.
	ead.library.jhu.edu /ms334.xml (522 words)

	November 15th
		The beauty of this woman, and her connection with the mysterious death of Sir Thomas Overbury, who was poisoned in the Tower through her agency, have invested her name with a species of romance in the annals of crime.
		Sir Thomas Overbury, who had hitherto concurred with and aided Rochester in his amour, now opposed the marriage-scheme, knowing the odium his pupil would excite by contracting such a union, and dreading also the influence which the countess's relations, the Howards, would thereby obtain.
		The day before this deliverance was given, Sir Thomas Overbury died in the Tower, from an infectious disease, as was alleged, and was hastily and clandestinely buried.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/nov/15.htm (3315 words)

	OVERBURY, Sir Thomas., A True and Perfect Account of the Examination, Confession, Trial, Condemnation and Execution of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		OVERBURY, Sir Thomas., A True and Perfect Account of the Examination, Confession, Trial, Condemnation and Execution of Joan Perry, and her two Sons, John and Richard Perry, for the supposed Murder of Will.
		This is a strange tale of miscarried justice in the Cotswolds, retailed by the nephew and namesake of the celebrated Jacobean victim, Sir Thomas Overbury.
		Sir Thomas Picton embarked for the West Indies in 1794 and so distinguished himself in the English assaults on the French islands of St Lucia and St Vincent that he was appointed military governor of Trinidad after its surrender by the Spanish in 1797.
	www.polybiblio.com /quaritch/EL362.html (895 words)

	Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds -- Chapter 16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sir Thomas Overbury, who had willingly assisted his patron to intrigue with the Countess of Essex, seems to have imagined that his marriage with so vile a woman might retard his advancement; he accordingly employed all his influence to dissuade him from it.
		Overbury's imprudent remonstrances were reported to the Countess; and from that moment, she also vowed the most deadly vengeance against him.
		It would seem that Overbury's knowledge of James's character was deeper than Rochester had given him credit for, and that he had been a true prophet when he predicted that his marriage would eventually estrange James from his minion.
	www.litrix.com /madraven/madne016.htm (9074 words)

	The Slow Poisoners by Charles MacKay
		Overbury did not confine his friendship to this, if friendship ever could exist between two such men, but acted the part of an entremetteur, and assisted Rochester to carry on an adulterous intrigue with the Lady Frances Howard, the wife of the Earl of Essex.
		Overbury held out so long that Rochester became impatient, and in a letter to Lady Essex, expressed his wonder that things were not sooner despatched.
		Overbury had not been all this time without suspicion of treachery, although he appears to have had no idea of poison.
	englishatheist.org /popdel/popdelpoison.shtml (9005 words)

	Early Stuart Libels: The Essex Nullity, the Somerset Marriage and the Death of Overbury (1613-1614)
		On 17 May 17 1613, Frances Howard, daughter of the King’s Lord Chamberlain, Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, and, since 1606, the wife of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, submitted a formal request (or “libel”) to a specially assembled commission of churchmen and lawyers, in which she asked the commissioners to annul her marriage.
		Overbury, once a close friend and advisor to Robert Carr, had quarrelled with the favourite over his relationship with Frances Howard and her family and, for his pains, in April 1613 had been tricked into offending the king and sent to the Tower for contempt of royal authority.
		At the time, Overbury’s death aroused little pity—one of the poems’ contempt seems to have been a fairly typical reaction and only a few whispers of foul play—some of which are documented in the other Overbury verse included in this section.
	www.earlystuartlibels.net /htdocs/essex_nullity_section/F0.html (721 words)

	Thomas Overbury Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Writer, careerist, and political adviser, Sir Thomas Overbury is a minor literary figure associated with the vogue of seventeenth-century English character-writing, a prose form similar to the essay but loosely modeled on the short sketches of character types, such as "The Garrulous Man" and "The Coward," composed by the ancient Greek writer Theophrastus.
		From 1614 to 1664 Overbury's posthumous character book A Wife Now a Widowe, comprising poems, characters, and "conceited Newes," was reprinted more frequently than other character books, including Joseph Hall's pioneering Characters of Vertues and Vices (1608) and John Earle's popular Micro-cosmographie (1628).
		Overbury's writings were inextricably linked to his murder in the Tower of London: unflagging public interest in his death by slow poisoning made the publication of his characters a bookseller's dream.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/thomas-overbury-dlb (169 words)

	Sir Thomas Overbury
		Sir Thomas Overbury, English poet and essayist, and the victim of one of the most sensational crimes in English history, was the son of Nicholas Overbury, of Bourton-the-Hill, and was born in 1581 at Compton Scorpion, near Ilmington, in Warwickshire.
		But the queen, by a foolish phrase, had sown discord between the friends; she had called Overbury Rochester's "governor." It is, indeed, apparent that Overbury had become arrogant with success, and was no longer a favorite at Court.
		There is no question that the horrible death of the writer, and the extraordinary way in which his murderers were brought to justice, gave an extraneous charm to his writings.
	www.nndb.com /people/504/000096216 (870 words)

	Frances HOWARD (C. Essex / C. Somerset)
		Born about 1593, Frances, the daughter of Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, famous Elizabethan seaman and the man who discovered the Gunpowder plot, and his second wife, Catherine Knyvett, a lady with "good face, which had brought to other much misery and to herself greatness which ended with much unhappiness".
		Overbury had been privy to the secret love affair between Carr and Frances, and at a time when both parties were anxious to secure the annulment of the Essex marriage, had openly and virulently opposed their plan to marry.
		In Sep 1613, Overbury died in the Tower of London in Sep 1613, poisoned - it was said - by an enema administered by an apothecary's boy.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/FrancesHoward(CEssexCSomerset).htm (1161 words)

	Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England. News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660, The Canadian ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bellany provides a stunning analysis of the well-known Overbury affair, the 1613 poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury by those associated with his master - and the king's favourite - Sir Robert Carr (Earl of Somerset) and his betrothed, Frances Howard.
		However, just as the connection between the Overbury affair and anti-popery is overplayed, so the attempt to demonstrate that the scandal was integrated into broader narratives of court corruption and popish plots is not entirely convincing.
		Bellany makes the Overbury affair a cobblestone on the road to civil war by claiming that allegations of court popery, which proved fatal to the crown, took hold because people had grown accustomed to connecting court and Catholicism through the Overbury affair.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200308/ai_n9252223 (798 words)

	Blue Amber Blog: True Beauty Lies Beneath
		Carr was known for climbing the grease-pole and the countess for her scandalous immodesties (not to mention the minor detail of still being married to some other poor klutz).
		Overbury, an intelligent young poet, advised his friend not to be swayed by the countess’ beauty.
		One of Overbury’s points in the poem to his friend Carr -- besides ignoring the exterior -- was to look into the beauty of a woman’s soul.
	www.ambarazul.com /2006/07/true-beauty-lies-beneath.html (1365 words)

	Early Stuart Libels: The Essex Nullity, the Somerset Marriage and the Death of Overbury (1613-1614)
		The courtier and poet Sir Thomas Overbury died in September 1613, a prisoner in the Tower of London.
		The opening spate of interrogations had identified Overbury’s keeper Richard Weston as the principal actor in the poisoning, and had connected Weston to a series of accessories, including Sir Gervase Elwes, Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Thomas Monson, Elwes’s court patron, and Anne Turner, widow of a fashionable London doctor.
		Politically weakened by the rise of George Villiers as a new royal favourite, Somerset was unable to stall the murder investigation, and by mid-October 1615 the Somersets were under arrest and widely assumed to be guilty of Overbury’s death.
	www.earlystuartlibels.net /htdocs/overbury_murder_section/H0.html (649 words)

	Amazon.com: "Thomas Overbury": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sir Thomas Overbury, who is known by literary compositions of some merit, was almost as much the favourite of Carr in the earlier...
		level, it initiated the series of events that was to lead to her trial and condemnation for the murder of Thomas Overbury a decade later; and secondly,...
		Thomas Overbury, New and Choise Characters, of Severall Authors (London, 1615), sig.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Thomas-Overbury (560 words)

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		But Rochester was now infatuated, and he repeated tc the countess what Overbury had said.
		It was at this time, too, that Overbury wrote, and circulated widely in MS., the poem called " His Wife," which was a picture of the virtues which a young See also:
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	Amazon.com: "Sir Thomas Overbury": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the seventeenth century, Sir Thomas Overbury describes a "Servingman" as "a creature, it,hich though he be not drunk, yet is not his owne man....
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	England 1603-1642
		The rapid rise of Henry Howard and Robert Carr was ended by a sensational case of divorce and murder: the Overbury scandal.
		Ten days before the divorce was annulled a young gentleman - Thomas Overbury - died by poison in the Tower of London.
		In 1615, evidence emerged that he had been poisoned by an agent of Frances because he was about to reveal that she had been living as Carr's mistress before her divorce, and had used drugs and witchcraft to engineer her husband's impotence.
	history.wisc.edu /sommerville/361/361-20.htm (1805 words)

	Thomas HOWARD (1º E. Suffolk)
		On one of her famous "progresses", in 1603, Queen Elizabeth was sumptuously entertained by Sir Thomas at Charterhouse.
		His daughter, Frances Howard, and her husband, Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, were tried and convicted (1616) in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury.
		Sir Thomas and Catherine were found guilty and fined and ordered to restore all money wrongfully extorted and were sentenced to be imprisoned in the Tower from which they were released after ten days.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/ThomasHoward(1ESuffolk).htm (545 words)

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