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    William Somner (1598–1669) was an English antiquarian scholar, the author of the first dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language. He was baptised in the church...
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  • Doug Somner (born 1951), Scottish footballer Matt Somner (born 1982), English footballer William Somner (1593–1669), English scholar Sommer Sumner (surname)...
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  • englischen Philologie, 35 (Bochum-Langendreer: Poppinghaus, 1941). William Somner, Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum, English Linguistics 1500–1800...
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    of the rapes is unclear and debated to this day. First suggested by William Somner in the 17th century, it seems that the derivation of the word from the...
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  • Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners, 1807, p. 235-243. John Minsheu and William Somner (17th century), Edward Lye of Oxford (1694–1767), Johann Georg Wachter...
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  • Knaplock. Thompson Cooper (1898). "Somner, William". In Dictionary of National Biography. 53. London. pp. 260-261. Somner, W., Aelfric, A. of Eynsham. (1970)...
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  • 12's mayor, a rival of Lucy Gray, and Billy Taupe's new girlfriend. George Somner plays Spruce, a rebel citizen from District 12. Other members of Lucy Gray's...
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    study of Anglo-Saxon, which he shared with his lifelong "trustie frend" William Somner. Edward Stillingfleet, whom Casaubon admired, bought many of his books...
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  • Battely (1648-1704) was an English clergyman and antiquary, editor of William Somner’s Cantuaria Sacra and brother of John Battely. Nicholas Battely was born...
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    Germany), Sarnivos (Sernf, Glarus), etc. According to a suggestion due to William Somner (1701) the Soar river may formerly have been called the Leir, from Brittonic...
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    an estate. Among his particular friends were Sir Robert Cotton and William Somner. In his account of Fenny Drayton he speaks of his "old acquaintance"...
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  • publication of the Leges Anglo-Saxonicae, which built on the work of William Somner between 1645 and 1652. In 1776, David Hoüard reprinted Wilkins' text...
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    Worcester, Gloucester, and Bristol Cathedrals. 1727. The exception is Man. William Somner, the antiquary; after van Dyck (pictured) Franciscus Junius; after the...
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    legal practices. It first received attention from Kentish antiquary William Somner, and the letter's text first appeared in print in the 1840 publication...
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    hold a readership in Anglo-Saxon, and in 1657 John Spelman bestowed on William Somner the annual stipend of the Anglo-Saxon lecture founded by his father...
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  • 7 November 1666: James Stedman, of Strata Florida 6 November 1667: William Somner or Sommers, of Llanllear 6 November 1668: Henry Summers, of Llanllear...
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    church of St Nicolas, the most prestigious position in the village. William Somner thought the site to have formerly been a synagogue. The building was...
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  • Library by Thomas Barlow. He dated gavelkind to an earlier period than William Somner. Magnus Imposter was an anonymous attack on Richard Delamaine the younger...
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    transcript of the Anglo-Saxon dictionary of William Somner. His skill in unravelling ancient writing became known to William Lloyd, the bishop of Lichfield, who...
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  • dictionaries and references were created from the 17th century. The first was William Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum (1659). Lexicographer Joseph...
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  • poem (dated Canterbury, 30 September 1656) addressed to Boys' friend, William Somner, on the completion of his Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum. Boys'...
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    religious and political differences. Kennett contributed a life of William Somner to the James Brome's edition of that antiquary's Treatise of the Roman...
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    the deans of London and Westminster, and engaged in a dispute with William Somner, the registrar of the diocese. Soon after the opening of the Long Parliament...
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  • Seymour, 10th Duke of Somerset Alexander Popham Sir Francis Popham Letitia Carre Daniel Webb Helena/Eleanor Rogers Mary Webb John Somner Elizabeth Somner...
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    daughter of Daniel Webb, of Monkton Farleigh, and wife Elizabeth Somner, daughter of John Somner, of Seend. They had at least five children. His first cousin...
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    permission, and the precedent of Rochester Cathedral had been set. William Somner's account of the state of the Cathedral at the Stuart Restoration outlines...
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  • Northern Tongues. The Whole Compiled From Vossius, Meric Casaubon, Spelman, Somner, Minshew, Junius, Skinner, Verstegan, Ray, Nugent, John Upton, Cleland,...
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    horticultural literature. Cole’s Penny Garden Guide was abridged from the Law Somner and Co. Handbook to the Garden (1880), a device much used by Cole. His biggest...
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  • child actor Gary Goetzman. Sean Penn as Jack Holden, an actor based on William Holden Tom Waits as film director Rex Blau Bradley Cooper as Jon Peters...
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  • Travels through Portugal, Spain, and Italy. He also published in 1693 William Somner's Treatise of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent, and sermons. "Brome...
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