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Thomas Churchyard (c. 1523 – 1604) was an English author and soldier. He is chiefly remembered for a series of autobiographical or semi-autobiographical verse collections, including Churchyardes Chippes (1575); Churchyard's Choise (1579); Churchyardes Charge (1580); The Worthines of Wales (1587); Churchyard's Challenge (1593); and Churchyards Charitie (1595).

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Thomas Churchyard

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Thomas Churchyard (c. 1523 – 1604) was an English author and soldier. He is chiefly remembered for a series of autobiographical or semi-autobiographical...

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Thomas Wyatt the Younger

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figure in the military and was praised by the professional soldier Thomas Churchyard. Next, Wyatt took part in the Siege of Boulogne with a responsible...

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. The poem's origins are unknown, but it was...

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Drumhead

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first attested in English in 1580, in the writings of the soldier Thomas Churchyard, who mentioned how "Dice plaie began ... on the toppe of Drommes heddes"...

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Paternoster Row

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synonymous" with the book trade. It was part of an area called St Paul's Churchyard. The street was devastated by aerial bombardment during World War II....

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Thomas Gray

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College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. Gray was a self-critical writer who published only...

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Trinity Church Cemetery

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with it in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The first, Trinity Churchyard, is located in Lower Manhattan at 74 Trinity Place, near Wall Street and...

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Spike Milligan

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headstone to bear the words "I told you I was ill." He was buried at St Thomas' churchyard but the Chichester diocese refused to allow this epitaph. A compromise...

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1580 Dover Straits earthquake

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wisely judge. Set forth in verse and prose, by Thomas Churchyard, gentleman. Mancall notes that Churchyard's pamphlet provides a sense of immediacy so often...

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Charles Causley

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about Causley's work (alone, or alongside poets such as Larkin and R. S. Thomas) suggest that this situation is changing. The Charles Causley Trust, a registered...

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Siege of Leith

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p. 498. Matthew Woodcock, Thomas Churchyard: Pen, Sword, and Ego (Oxford, 2016), p. 107. Thomas Churchyard, Churchyard's Chips concerning Scotland, Constable...

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Edmund Spenser

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original £100. This story seems to have attached itself to Spenser from Thomas Churchyard, who apparently had difficulty in getting payment of his pension,...

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Graveyard poets

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term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death", Robert Blair's...

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1520 in literature

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humanist, poet and writer, writing in Latin and Italian (died 1572) Thomas Churchyard, English author and poet (died 1604) Pernette Du Guillet, French poet...

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Jane Shore

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and his wife Caroline Heath as 'Henry's' errant wife Jane Shore. Thomas Churchyard (d. 1604) published a poem about her in Mirror for Magistrates. Anthony...

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Ryde

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Vernon Square, Simeon Street Recreation Ground, St John's Park, St Thomas' churchyard, Salter Road recreation ground, and Oakfield Football Club. At one...

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Tristia

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Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0307801838. Woodcock, Matthew (2016). Thomas Churchyard: Pen, Sword, and Ego. Oxford University Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0191507267...

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Tree of Jesse

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Abergavenny, formerly held a 15th-century composition, described by Thomas Churchyard in 1587 as "a most famous worke in maner of a genealogie of Kings...

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Sam Shoemaker

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after a service at St. Thomas Church in Owings Mills, Baltimore County. He was interred in the family plot in the St. Thomas churchyard, as was his wife who...

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Absalom Jones

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February 13, 1818, in Philadelphia. He was initially interred in the St. Thomas Churchyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His body was relocated to Lebanon Cemetery...

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