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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: William of Shoreham
An English religious writer of the Anglo-Norman period, born at Shoreham, near Sevenoaks, in Kent, in the latter half of the twelfth century; died at an unknown date.
As this rector was then a benefice of Leeds priory, it is probable that William was one of the Austin canons at that priory.
The appearance of William's name in the colophon to some of the poems is sufficient evidence for the authorship, but the fact that the Psalter is not in the Kentish but in the Mercian dialect has led some authorities to contest his authorship of the version of the Psalter.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Index for W
William of Ramsey - A monk of Crowland Abbey
William of Turbeville - Bishop of Norwich (1095-1174)
William of Tyre - Archbishop of Tyre and historian (1130-1190)
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 §12. William of Shoreham. XVI. Later Transition English. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The ...
The literary activity of the south-east of England during this time was less remarkable than that of the west and north; nevertheless, three writers of some importance, William of Shoreham, Dan Michel of Northgate and Adam Davy, call for mention here.
William of Shoreham’s works are contained in a single manuscript (Add.
From other colophons we learn that the poems were composed by William of Shoreham, vicar of Chart, near Leeds, in Kent.
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 William Lane
William Lane was born in Brighton in 1818, the son of Rebecca and William Lane, a fruiterer and orange merchant of Brighton Place, Brighton.
William Lane now had a wife and two children to support and clearly the earnings of a ticket writer were not sufficient to provide for a young family.
William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the calotype process (a negative/positive method of producing photographic prints) had recently relaxed his control over the production of photographic prints on paper (Talbotypes) after a series of unsatisfactory legal actions against photographers, whom he believed were infringing his calotype and Talbotype patents.
www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk /BTN-LaneWm.htm   (3557 words)

  
 Goal - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The word was quite early used in various games for the two posts, with or without a cross-bar, through or over which the ball has to be driven to score a point towards winning the game.
The New English Dictionary quotes the use in Richard Stanyhurst's Description of Ireland (1577) but the word gol in the sense of a boundary appears as early as the beginning of the 14th century in the religious poems of William de Shoreham (c.
It is usually taken to be derived from a French word gaule, meaning a pole or stick, but this meaning does not appear in the English usage, nor does the usual English meaning appear in the French.
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 Br Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
William was taken to a tree at Llywelyn's manor of Crogen, and there hung by the neck until dead.
William's wife, Berta, inherited all her families land as her brothers all died at young ages.
William was stripped of his office as bailiff of Glamorgan and other custodies by King John and later deprived of all his lands.
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 D:\ - pafg45 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
William Dodge [Parents] was born on 1 May 1707 in New Shoreham, Newport, Ri.
Edmund Dodge was born on 21 Jan 1733 in New Shoreham, Block Island, Rhode Island.
Benjamin Dodge was born on 1 Nov 1742 in New Shoreham, Block Island, Rhode Island.
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 HISTORY OF SHOREHAM VILLAGE
Cordwood to fuel the brick kilns along the Hudson River was brought to Shoreham beach by way of a network of trails converging on Woodville Road, whence it was loaded aboard small sailing vessels for transport to New York City.
Somewhere around the time of the Civil War Swezey's holdings passed to one William Dickerson, under whose family extensive orchards of apples, peaches, pears, and plums were developed in the lowlands along both sides of Woodville Road.
Shoreham is also notable for two unique qualities of its own: when incorporated, it was the smallest village in New York State; and it is the first municipality in the State to have concrete roads throughout its original incorporated area.
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 William Russell, Sr.
The trip for the family would have many hardships; the difficult voyage would last six weeks, they had a newborn, born December 1856; but, the hardest difficulty to bear was the lost of their eight year old son, James, due to an epidemic on ship.
William and Hannah Russell had a farm in Canada from 1857 to 1864 when they decided as a family to move to Elk Rapids.
William Russell Sr.'s 160 acre homestead was in what we know today as Torch Lake Township; but, in 1869 that area was Milton Township.
www.elkrapidshistory.org /wmrussell.htm   (619 words)

  
 William Blair
William Blair enlisted in Co.A, 98th regiment of NY Infantry Volunteers on the 18th of Jan. 1862 for a term of 3 yrs and was discharged the 18th of Jan. 1865 at Chaffins Farm, Virginia.
After months of suffering from a cancer in his throat, which prevented nourishment and destroyed his speech, William Blair, one of the best known citizens of West Plains, passed away at 6 o’clock last Friday evening.
He was aged 68 years, two months and 8 days, and leaves a wife and son, seven years old, to mourn his death.
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 Bible Versions Encyclopedia Article
(a) William Tyndale was the first to avail himself of the new opportunities furnished by the press and the new learning.
Assisted by William Roye, like himself an apostate Franciscan from the monastery at Greenwich, he translated the New Testament, and began to have it printed in Cologne in 1525.
It was probably the work of William Whittingham, and it was the first English Bible which had its text divided into "verses and sections according to the best editions in other languages".
www.traditionalcatholic.net /Scripture/Encyclopedia/Versions.html   (11837 words)

  
 EnglishTrans
William Tyndale (1494-1536) was bundled out of England by the Church for his attempts to translate the Bible into English.
William Tyndale was martyred by the Church even before he completed the translation of the Old Testament.
The English prose style and writings of Edward Gibbon, Macauley, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, R W Emerson, Thoreau, Abraham Lincoln, William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Curzon, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were all influenced by this edition of the Bible.
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 William Blake - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
William Blake (November 28, 1757-August 12, 1827) was an English poet, mystic, painter and printmaker, or "Author and Printer," as he signed many of his books.
Geoffrey Keynes, a biographer, described Butts as "a dumb admirer of genius, which he could see but not quite understand." Dumb or not, we have him to thank for eliciting and preserving so many works.
William Blake died in 1827 and was buried in an unmarked grave at Bunhill Fields, London, England.
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I observe that a William Basse (or _Bas_, as the name is there spelt) printed in 1602, 4to., a tract called _Sword and Buckler, or Serving Man's Defence_; but I know no more of it than that it was sold in Stevens's sale; and among the MSS.
Heber was a volume of poems called _Polyhymnia_, apparently prepared for the press, and dedicated by William Basse to Lady Lindsey, which contained an "Elegie on a rare Singing Bull-finch," dated 19th June, 1648; so that he was still living nearly half a century after he had printed his earliest known performance.
WILLIAM J. _Pilgrimages of Princes--Bernard Calver--Passage from Hudibras_.--In reply to Mr.
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 William Floyd Parkway (Suffolk CR 46)
The William Floyd Parkway (Suffolk CR 46), named after a signer of the Declaration of Independence from the Shirley-Mastic area, is a four-lane divided highway extending north from Smith Point Park on Fire Island to NY 25A in Shoreham.
In the early 1990's, the William Floyd Parkway was once again chosen as the principal north-south route to New England, this time for a high-speed ferry along the route of the once-proposed bridge.
A four-lane extension of the William Floyd Parkway north of NY 25A to the proposed terminal was included in the plan.
www.nycroads.com /roads/CR-46   (1319 words)

  
 Omni Shoreham Hotel - A Luxury Washington, D.C. Hotel
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 Home of Shoreham And District Historical Society
Today Shoreham Aircraft Museum displays numerous relics of the air combats over southern England.
There is even a theory that William Blake took his inspiration for 'Jerusalem' from our 'clouded hills' and certainly the Shoreham Women's Institute took it as their anthem, to be taken up later by the national organisation.
To date we have over 20 publications and are currently conducting a major 'oral history' project, supported principally by the Local Heritage Initiative, on the experience of the village during the Second World War.
www.shorehamkenthistorical.org.uk   (286 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Document Library : The Development of the English Bible
About 1300 a verse translation of the Psalter was issued, and shortly afterwards prose versions appeared in several dialects, notably those of William of Shoreham and Richard Rolle, the hermit of Hampole.
The first English Bible to be issued since the days of Wycliffe was that of William Tyndale, who has been given the title of "Father of the English Bible." Tyndale was a cleric, and may even have been a priest, though, if this is true, he was certainly an unorthodox one.
Largely the work of William Whittingham, who was John Calvin's brother-in-law, it was issued in parts between 1557 and 1560.
www.petersnet.net /docs/doc_view.cfm?RecNum=7234   (3726 words)

  
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In 1327 " certain persons broke open the chests and coffers, of William Vyvian at Shoreham, and finding therein £600, carried it away." Now this sum was probably money which had been collected as dues on merchandise brought into the port ;.
William Vyvian having been appointed in 1324 and again in.
1325 and 1327 deputy for the King's chief butler " in the port of the town of Shoreham."
shoreham.adur.org.uk /images/storyofshoreham/storyshoreham_0059.htm   (286 words)

  
 Josiah H. Combs' "Combes Genealogy," Introduction [Part 2], pp. xvii-xxix
William Preston and Isaac Shelby were also in the "State of Franklin", before Shelby came to Kentucky.
Henry, George and William appear in the Revolutionary records of North Carolina, but it is not known that any of them are identical with three of the same names among the brothers.
William L. Combs, married a Kelley, a sister of old "Uncle Bole" (Wash.), and some of these speech habits may have come from that source.
www.combs-families.org /combs/jhc/jhc-xvii.htm   (4942 words)

  
 William of Shoreham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William of Shoreham (14th century) was an English poet.
Little is known of his life, but he probably lived in Shoreham, Kent and was vicar of Chart (near Leeds, Kent).
He was once thought to be the author of an English psalter, but this is now considered spurious.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_of_Shoreham   (167 words)

  
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It is thought that the 3rd earl, another William, was responsible for converting the manor to the more familiar Castle Keep, much favoured by the Normans.
This work was done at the time of the civil wars of King Stephen around 1140 so it is most probable it was strengthened during this time of instability.
In 1283, William of Shoreham, Prior of Castle Acre, fortified his house against the Prior of Lewis with the help of the earl of Surrey, John de Warenne.
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 Millers Church History by Andrew Miller - Chapter 25
William Courtenay, son of the Earl of Devon, was then bishop of London, and appointed president of the assembly by Archbishop Sudbury.
William of Shoreham rendered the Psalter into Anglo-Norman; and he was soon after followed by Richard Rolle, chantry priest at Hampole.
William Sautree is the first victim under this terrible edict.
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 Version Descriptions
In the same century a metrical translation of the Psalter appeared, which is extant in several copies; before 1350 there was also a prose version in the dialect of West Midlands, sometimes attributed to William of Shoreham; and a version with a verse-by-verse commentary by Richard Rolle, a hermit living at Hampole in Yorkshire.
The 1st printed English New Testament was translated by William Tyndale directly from Erasmus’ Greek text as published in 1516 and revised in 1522.
Charles B. Williams, a professor of Greek, in 1937 (Boston) published The New Testament, A New Translation in the Language of the People in which he gave special attention to the rendering of the Greek tenses.
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 Wesley's Letters: Introduction
He was eighteen when he wrote to the Treasurer of Charterhouse; but his style is as clear and direct as in his maturity, and his moral scrupulousness shows with what high ideals he started life.
The last letter is that to William Wilberforce, a trumpet-blast from the veteran who is putting off his armor to the noble philanthropist engaged in a mighty war against one of the most horrible wrongs suffered by mankind.
How firmly he kept his hand on the work even in his extreme old age is seen by the letter of February 8, 1790.
wesley.nnu.edu /john_wesley/letters/introduction.htm   (4255 words)

  
 THE TRANSLATION OF SCRIPTURE
Towards the end of the 14th C. a translation of the major epistles of the NT was made for monks and nuns.
William Tyndale was the first to translate the NT into English from a Greek text instead of Latin.
William Carey is usually seen as the father of modern missions.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Thebes/4610/biblio/translation.html   (8629 words)

  
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
From Wycliffe we shall go on to William Tyndale, to Miles Coverdale, and to the other translators of the Tudor period with whom begins that long series of Bibles to which the authorised and revised versions both equally belong.
The next stage will introduce us to our golden age of creative inspiration, when Scholarship and Letters came forth to lay their united service at the feet of Religion, and to dedicate to her that famous book which has been the pride of England for now nearly three hundred years.
There remain to us some of Shoreham’s poems, and their dialect is Kentish, whereas this Psalter is in the dialect of the West Midlands.
www.godrules.net /library/hoare/290hoare2.htm   (9676 words)

  
 U.S. Physics Olympiad Team Honored
William Throwe, Shoreham-Wading River HS, Shoreham, NY Below is the text of Rep. Ehlers' May 18 Congressional Record statement:
Speaker, I rise today to honor the achievements of the members of the 2005 United States Physics Olympiad Team.
Speaker, as a nuclear physicist and former physics professor, I have worked to promote math and science education and to recognize the pivotal role these fields play in our nation's economic competitiveness and national security.
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