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121Nicholas Udall — For the former Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, and Arizona Superior Court Judge, see Nick Udall. Nicholas Udall (1504 – 23 December 1556) was an English playwright, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster, the author of Ralph Roister Doister, generally… …
122Roger Ascham — (c. 1515 23 December 1568), English scholar and didactic writer, famous for his prose style, his promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education. He acted as Princess Elizabeth s tutor in Greek and Latin between 1548 50, and served in… …
123A Tale of a Tub — was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697 and published in 1704. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is divided into sections of… …
124Titus Oates — (September 15, 1649 ndash; July 12/13, 1705) was a 17th century perjurer who fabricated the Popish Plot , a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.Early lifeTitus Oates was born in Oakham. His father, Samuel, was the rector of… …
125Catholic League (German) — The German Catholic League ( de. Katholische Liga) was initially a loose confederation of Roman Catholic German states formed on July 10, 1609 to counteract the Protestant Union (formed 1608), whereby the participating states concluded an… …
126Francis Atterbury — Infobox Bishop honorific prefix = name = Francis Atterbury honorific suffix = bishop of = Bishop of Rochester caption = Bishop Atterbury province = diocese = Diocese of Rochester see = enthroned = ended = predecessor = successor = ordination =… …
127Irish poetry — The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work… …
128Firby — is a toponym and family name found throughout the Anglosphere. It is from the Old English name Fredebi , its Middle English spelling was Fritheby, since Gallicised into Early Modern English as Firby, although numerous spellings (Furby, Furbee,… …
