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	William Grocyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Grocyn (1446?-1519) was an English scholar, a friend of Erasmus.
		In 1467 he became a fellow, and among his pupils was William Warham, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.
		As reader in divinity at Magdalen College in 1481, he held a disputation with John Taylor, professor of divinity, in the presence of King Richard III; the king acknowledged his skill as a debater by the present of a deer and five marks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Grocyn (593 words)

	WILLIAM GROCYN - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM GROCYN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		About 1488 Grocyn left England for Italy, and before his return in 1491 he had visited Florence, Rome and Padua, and studied Greek and Latin under Demetrius Chalchondyles and Politian.
		This was about 1475, and as Vitelli was certainly familiar with Greek literature, Grocyn may have learnt Greek from him.
		He also counted Linacre, William Lily, William Latimer and More among his friends, and Erasmus writing in 1514 says that he was supported by - Grocyn in London, and calls him the friend and preceptor of us all.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GR/GROCYN_WILLIAM.htm (543 words)

	§5. William Grocyn. I. Englishmen and the Classical Renascence. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Grocyn was early distinguished by his knowledge of Greek and taught that language at Oxford before 1488.
		Grocyn resembled in many ways some of the older German humanists, who were content to spend their time in study and in directing and encouraging the work of younger scholars, without contributing to the store of learning by books of their own making.
		With Grocyn and Linacre must be classed William Latimer, who had a great reputation for learning among his contemporaries, English and continental.
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	Grocyn, William - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Grocyn, William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Among his pupils were Thomas More, and also Erasmus, who left an account of Grocyn in his letters.
		Grocyn died at Maidstone, leaving a library of 105 printed books and 17 manuscripts.
		In Erasmus's letters Grocyn appears as a man who combined traditional scholastic theology with a respect for new learning and a commitment to the highest standards of scholarship.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Grocyn,%20William (211 words)

	§4. Thomas Linacre. I. Englishmen and the Classical Renascence. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge ...
		Thomas Linacre had been a pupil of William Tilly of Selling in the monastery school at Christ Church and, probably, had received his earliest aspirations towards scholarship from his master.
		He had gone to Oxford, where he had an opportunity of studying Greek under Cornelio Vitelli, who had been invited by the warden of New College, Thomas Chaundler, to act as praelector in his college, and who was the first to teach Greek publicly in England.
		His old teacher, William Tilly of Selling, was sent as ambassador by Henry VII to Innocent VIII; Linacre went with him and, spending some years in Italy, made the acquaintance of scholars and devoted himself to the humanities.
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	William Grocyn -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		After studying and teaching at Oxford, Grocyn went in 1488 to Italy, where he was permitted by Lorenzo de' Medici to study Greek with the tutors of his children.
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		With Meriwether Lewis, William Clark led the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 to 1806 from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River.
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	Encyclopedia: Thomas Linacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On his return to Oxford, full of the learning and imbued with the spirit of the Italian Renaissance, he formed one of the brilliant circle of Oxford scholars, including John Colet, William Grocyn and William Latimer, who are mentioned in the letters of Erasmus.
		On the accession of Henry VIII in 1509, he was appointed the king's physician, an office at that time of considerable influence and importance, and practised medicine in London, having among his patients most of the great statesmen and prelates of the time, including Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop William Warham and Bishop Fox.
		Among his pupils was one--Erasmus--whose name alone would suffice to preserve the memory of his instructor in Greek, and others of note in letters and politics, such as Sir Thomas More, Prince Arthur and Queen Mary I of England.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thomas-Linacre (1244 words)

	William Grocyn
		William Grocyn (1446?-1519), English scholar, was born at Colerne, Wiltshire.
		He seems to have lived in Oxford until 1499, but when his friend John Colet became dean of St Paul's in 1504 he was settled in London.
		He also counted Linacre, William Lilye, William Latimer[?] and More among his friends, and Erasmus writing in 1514 says that he was supported by Grocyn in London, and calls him "the friend and preceptor of us all."
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	THOMAS LINACRE (or LYNAKER) - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS LINACRE (or LYNAKER) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On his return to Oxford, full of the learning and imbued with the spirit of the Italian Renaissance, he formed one of the brilliant circle of Oxford scholars, including John Colet, William Grocyn and William Latimer, who are mentioned with so much warm eulogy in the letters of Erasmus.
		Among his pupils was oneErasmuswhose name alone would suffice to preserve the memory of his instructor in Greek, and others of note in letters and politics, such as Sir Thomas More, Prince Arthur and Queen Mary.
		Colet, Grocyn, William Lilye and other eminent scholars were his intimate friends, and he was esteemed by a still wider circle of literary correspondents in all parts of Europe.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LI/LINACRE_or_LYNAKER_THOMAS.htm (1766 words)

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	The Story of Thomas More, John Farrow, Chapter 2
		He was fortunate in having for his Greek professor, the learned William Grocyn, who, upon his return from Italy some six years before, had begun the teaching of Greek at Oxford.
		John Grocyn, his tutor at the University, was now vicar in the church of St. Lawrence Jewry.
		William Lily, the Greek scholar, was to become first headmaster of St. Paul's.
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	Winchester College
		Its website states that the school has "the longest unbroken history of any school in England"[1].
		It was founded in 1382 by William of Wykeham, the Bishop of Winchester and High Chancellor of England, who also founded New College, Oxford.
		Its original purpose was to educate "seventy poor and needy scholars".
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	St. Thomas More
		At Oxford he made friends with William Grocyn and Thomas Linacre, the latter becoming his first instructor in Greek.
		He wrote poetry, both Latin and English, a considerable amount of which has been preserved and is of good quality, though not particularly striking, and he was especially devoted to the works of Pico della Mirandola, of whose life he published an English translation some years later.
		He cultivated the acquaintance of scholars and learned men and, through his former tutors, Grocyn and Linacre, who were now living in London, he made friends with Colet, Dean of St. Paul's, and William Lilly, both renowned scholars.
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	GROCYN, WILLIAM (1446?—1519) - Online Information article about GROCYN, WILLIAM (1446?—1519)
		Exeter College he found an opportunity of indoctrinating his countrymen in the new Greek learning.
		familiar with Greek literature, Grocyn may have learnt Greek from him.
		By Erasmus he has been described as " vir severissimae castissimae vitae, ecclesiasticarum constitutionum observantissimus pene usque ad superstitionem, scholasticae theologiae ad unguem doctus ac natura etiam acerrimi judicii, demum in omni disciplinarum genere exacte versatus " (Declarationes ad censuras facultatis theologiae Parisianae, 1522).
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	Winchester College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Winchester has existed for over six hundred years and claims to have the longest unbroken history of any school in England.
		Winchester College was founded in 1382 by William of Wykeham, the Bishop of Winchester and High Chancellor of England, who also founded New College, Oxford.
		Current and former pupils are still referred to as Wykehamists after the founder.
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	The History of Protestantism by J. A. Wylie
		William Lily was appointed to preside over the newly-founded seminary, which had the honor of being the first public school in England, out of the universities, in which the Greek language was taught.
		From him William Grocyn acquired the elements of that tongue, and, succeeding his master, he was the first Englishman who taught it at Oxford.
		William Tyndale, the man chosen of God for this labor, had, as we have seen, finished his task.
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	Thomas Linacre
		Thomas Lynacre received his early education at the cathedral school of Canterbury, then under the direction of William Celling, who became prior of Canterbury in 1472.
		Among his pupils was one--Erasmus--whose name alone would suffice to preserve the memory of his instructor in Greek, and others of note in letters and politics, such as Sir Thomas More, Prince Arthur and Queen Mary.
		Colet, Grocyn, William Lilye and other eminent scholars were his close friends, and he was esteemed by a still wider circle of literary correspondents in all parts of Europe.
	www.greatsite.com /timeline-english-bible-history/thomas-linacre.html (1134 words)

	Thomas Morus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Grocyn (1446-1519), einer der führenden Oxford-Humanisten, war 1488 zur Zeit von Lorenzo de Medici (Il Magnifico) nach Florenz gereist, um dort unter Poliziano Griechisch zu studieren.
		Grocyn war auch ein enger Freund und Förderer des Erasmus, und dieser nannte ihn "den Ersten unter den vielen Gelehrten Englands" und "unser aller (aller Humanisten) Patron und Wohltäter".
		Thomas Linacre (1460-1524) hatte mit Grocyn zusammen in Florenz Griechisch studiert, widmete sich zusätzlich der Medizin und promovierte in Padua.
	www.bueso.de /nrw/Aktuelles/morus.htm (3782 words)

	John Colet - Wikipedia
		Han var en sentral skikkelse i "Platonist-kretsen" i Oxford, som også omfattet William Grocyn, Thomas Linacre (som begge var hans studiekamerater under Marcilio Ficino i Firenze), Thomas More, William Latimer og nederlenderen Erasmus.
		Farsarven gjorde ham til en rik mann, og satte ham i stand til å grunnlegge St. Pauls skole.
		Som overlærer valgte han en annen platonist og gresklærd, William Lily.
	no.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Colet (295 words)

	History of Parliament - About us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It may have been to prepare for the priesthood that Thomas More went to Oxford, where he is generally supposed to have attended Canterbury College but may also have been a member of St. Mary Hall, but after about two years there his father put him to the study of law.
		Although his own circle of friends was already large and his father had been made a serjeant in 1503, it may have been his wife's family which procured his return to the Parliament of 1504; his constituency is not known but it could have been Gatton for which his father-in-law had sat in 1492.
		His only son was under age but all three of his sons-in-law, William Dauntesey, Giles Heron and William Roper, were elected to it, as were his brother-in-law John Rastell, his stepdaughter's second husband Giles Alington, and probably Heron's brother-in-law John Dynham: Edward Madison, a Member for Hull, married Roper's sister in 1529.
	www.history.ac.uk /hop/cd5.html (2419 words)

	English Renaissance
		William Grocyn travelled to Italy to be educated, and on his return initiated the teaching of Greek at Oxford.
		She desired to learn Greek and Latin, but her mother refused to hire a tutor to educate her in the languages that were reserved for men who joined the clergy.
		She promoted the printing of books, and was a leading patron of the first English printer, William Caxton, and his successor.
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	John Colet
		With William Lily, the school's first headmaster, and Erasmus, he collaborated on a Latin grammar that was later called the Eton grammar and used by generations of schoolboys.
		Colet did not, himself, break with the Roman Church, but his ideas on church reform were influential later.
		William Grocyn - Grocyn, William, 1446?–1519, English humanist.
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		The university's statutes were codified by its chancellor, Archbishop William Laud, in 1636.
		In the early 16th century professorships began to be endowed, and in the latter part of the 17th century interest in scientific studies increased substantially.
		During the Renaissance, Desiderius Erasmus carried the new learning to Oxford, and such scholars as William Grocyn, John Colet, and Sir Thomas More enhanced the university's reputation.
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	william grocyn - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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		Grocyn, William : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
		GROCYN, WILLIAM : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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	Places With Ricardian Connections - Worcestershire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the top of the north aisle window are two roundels of fifteenth century glass which show a York rose on a gold background and a sun in splendour.
		One of William Sheldon's descendants commissioned a portrait of Richard III which is now in the Berger Collection in Denver Museum, America.
		On Friday 25th July 1483 Richard was at Magdalen College Oxford on his tour and heard a disputation in divinity by William Grocyn and John Taylor.
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		We know little about the early years of this man whom Sir Thomas More called "the captain of our English heretics." Born in Gloucester one hundred years after Wyclif's death, Tyndale attended a grammar school attached to Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and later attended the Hall itself, probably receiving his M.A. in 1515.
		He studied under the classical scholars William Grocyn, William Latimer, and Thomas Linacre.
		He likely attended Cambridge also, where the great Erasmus was lecturing and preparing his edition of the Greek New Testament.
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