A brotherhood which rose in the Low Countries in the twelfth century, and was so called from Lambert Bégue. The male society were Beghards, the female, Beguins. They took no vows, and were…
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Edward Bright, of Essex, weighed 44 stone, or 616 pounds, at death. He was 5 feet 9 inches high, 5 feet round the chest, and 6 feet 11 inches round the paunch. He died 1750, aged thirty.…
Son of the King of Naples, and suitor of Miranda, daughter of Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan. (Shakespeare Tempest.) In Love's Labour's Lost, the same name is given to the King of…
(St.) (1 syl.). Patron saint of lawyers, being himself a lawyer. As he used his knowledge of the law in defending the oppressed, he is called in Brittany “the poor man's advocate.”…
The Old Pretender. James F. E. Stuart, son of James II. (1688-1766.) The Young Pretender. Charles Edward Stuart, son of the “Old Pretender.” (1720-1788.) God bless the king, I mean the…
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