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... appointed Historio- grapher Royal and Poet Laureate . 1670. Congreve born . 1671. The " Rehearsal . " 1672. Wycherley's Wood . " " Love in a 1673. Nicholas Rowe born . 1675. Wycherley's " Country Wife . " 1677. Dryden's " All for Love ...
... appointed Historio- grapher Royal and Poet Laureate . 1670. Congreve born . 1671. The " Rehearsal . " 1672. Wycherley's Wood . " " Love in a 1673. Nicholas Rowe born . 1675. Wycherley's " Country Wife . " 1677. Dryden's " All for Love ...
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... appointed Bishop of Salisbury . 1689. Locke's " Letter on Tolera- tion " and " Two Treatises on Government . " 1690. Locke's " Essay on the Hu- man Understanding . " 1691. Tillotson appointed Arch- bishop of Canterbury . 1692. Locke ...
... appointed Bishop of Salisbury . 1689. Locke's " Letter on Tolera- tion " and " Two Treatises on Government . " 1690. Locke's " Essay on the Hu- man Understanding . " 1691. Tillotson appointed Arch- bishop of Canterbury . 1692. Locke ...
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... appointed comptroller of the customs and subsidy of wools , skins , and tanned hides in the port of London , and about the same time he received other remunera- tive appointments which gave him an income equivalent to about £ 1000 a ...
... appointed comptroller of the customs and subsidy of wools , skins , and tanned hides in the port of London , and about the same time he received other remunera- tive appointments which gave him an income equivalent to about £ 1000 a ...
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... appointed by Henry VIII . successor to Wolsey in the Lord Chancellorship . A man of versatile genius , of gentle disposition , and of impregnable integrity , More may justly be reckoned one of the most lovable men of his time . It has ...
... appointed by Henry VIII . successor to Wolsey in the Lord Chancellorship . A man of versatile genius , of gentle disposition , and of impregnable integrity , More may justly be reckoned one of the most lovable men of his time . It has ...
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... appointed Bishop of Worcester , an office he did not long 2 retain , being deprived of it in 1539 , because he refused to sign the " Act of the Six Articles . " For some time he suf- ? fered imprisonment in the Tower , and during the ...
... appointed Bishop of Worcester , an office he did not long 2 retain , being deprived of it in 1539 , because he refused to sign the " Act of the Six Articles . " For some time he suf- ? fered imprisonment in the Tower , and during the ...
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