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Oliver Ellsworth: Landholder VI

Landholder VIOliver EllsworthMonday, December 10, 1787He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbor cometh and searcheth him.To the Landholders and Farmers:The publication…

The Life of Henry the Fifth

ContentsDramatis PersonaeAct IPrologueScene IScene IIAct IIPrologueScene IScene IIScene IIIScene IVAct IIIPrologueScene IScene IIScene IIIScene IVScene VScene VIScene VIIAct IVPrologueScene IScene…

Shrewsbury, city, England

(Encyclopedia) ShrewsburyShrewsburyshr&oomacr;zˈ [key]Shrewsbury– [key]Shrewsburybərē [key], city (1991 pop. 57,731), adminstrative center of Shropshire, W England, on the Severn River.…

William Shakespeare: Henry VI (Pt 1), Act III

Act IIIScene ILondon. The Parliament-houseFlourish. Enter King Henry VI, Exeter, Gloucester, Warwick, Somerset, and Suffolk; the Bishop OF Winchester, Richard Plantagenet, and others.…

Part II. Letters of Brutus

Abstract In the 1780s Robert Yates stood as a recognized leader of the Antifederalists. He opposed any concessions to the federal congress, such as the right to collect impost duties, that…

Latimer, Hugh

(Encyclopedia) Latimer, HughLatimer, Hughlătˈəmər [key], 1485?–1555, English bishop and Protestant martyr. Latimer was educated at Cambridge, entered the church, and came under the influence of the…

Tancred, king of Sicily

(Encyclopedia) Tancred (Tancred of Lecce)Tancredtăngˈkrĭd;, lĕˈchā [key], b. 1130 or 1134, d. 1194, king of Sicily (1190–94), illegitimate son of Roger of Apulia and grandson of Roger II of Sicily.…

Roses, Wars of the

(Encyclopedia) Roses, Wars of the, traditional name given to the intermittent struggle (1455–85) for the throne of England between the noble houses of York (whose badge was a white rose) and…