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Hace 4 días · Sir Thomas Overbury. 1615, October 19. "The arraignment of Richard Weston, yeoman, at the Guildhall, London, the 19th of October, 1615, for poisoning of Sir Tho.
Hace 3 días · One tragic memory, and one alone, as far as we know, attaches to Paternoster Row. It was here, in the reign of James I., that Mrs. Anne Turner lived, at whose house the poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury was planned.
Hace 3 días · Cousin of Sir Gervase Elwes, Lieutenant of the Tower, who was executed for his complicity in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. Father of Sir Gervase (Alderman 1629), whose son Gervase was created a Baronet, and of Jeremy (Alderman 1651).
Hace 4 días · Thomas Fairchild, a Hoxton gardener, who wrote in 1722 (quoted by Mr. Peter Cunningham), alludes to figs ripening well in the Rolls Gardens, Chancery Lane, and to the tree thriving in close places about Bridewell.
Hace 5 días · The Mystery of "Joe Piker". In February 1823, a young man moved into Toft Hill, a small mining and agricultural village in South Durham, England. Although he boasted the impressive name of “Josiah Charles Stephenson,” the fact that he settled into a cottage adjoining a turnpike gate soon earned him the snappier nickname of “Joe Piker.”.
Hace 4 días · Thomas More (born February 7, 1478, London, England—died July 6, 1535, London; canonized May 19, 1935; feast day June 22) was an English humanist and statesman, chancellor of England (1529–32), who was beheaded for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England.
Hace 3 días · Thomism is the philosophical and theological school which arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the Dominican philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church. In philosophy, Thomas's disputed questions and commentaries on Aristotle are perhaps his best-known works.
