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an English jurist and a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath showing true intellectual depth and breadth; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land." It was as a prolific scholar and writer that Selden won his reputation. The early books were on English history. In 1610 three of his works came out. In 1618 his controversial History of Tithes was published. In 1623 he produced an edition of Eadmer's Historia Novarum. He published in 1642 Privileges of the Baronage of England when they sit in Parliament and Discourse concerning the Rights and Privileges of the Subject. In 1652 he wrote a preface and collated some of the manuscripts for Sir Roger Twysden's Historiae Anglicae scriptores decem. |
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| Lotium |
| Stale urine, used by barbers (15th to 18th century) as a hair wash, etc, Latin lavare, lautum, lotum, to wash, whence also the current form, lotion. Cp. lant. In Ben Jonson's THE SILENT WOMAN (1609), heaping execrations upon a barber, Morose says: Let him be glad to eat his sponge for bread; Truewit adds: And drink lotium to it. |
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Thirteen years ago Colonial Sense went live, brought to life by Bryan Wright and Geoffrey Reiss in an effort to create an Early Modern info hub. Bryan was in charge of Content and Geoffrey handled tech/curating. It was supposed to be a business but never made it that far. It rarely made much money and was mostly a labor of love to keep up and, running, and updated frequently.
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| I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree, all the beneficial purposes of society. |
| — Alexander Hamilton Speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June, 1788 |
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This Day in Early Modern History -- January 23rdclick on for links for date verification; or go to the Timeline for more eventsEvents | ||||
| • 1552 | - | Second version of Book of Common Prayer becomes mandatory in England | ||
| • 1556 | - | Most deadly earthquake on record kills 830,000 in Shaaxi (Shensi Province), China | ||
| • 1570 | - | James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated -- civil war breaks out | ||
| • 1571 | - | Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London | ||
| • 1579 | - | Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic | ||
| • 1631 | - | France and Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Bärwalde | ||
| • 1637 | - | Dutch governor John Maurice lands in Pernambuco Brazil | ||
| • 1643 | - | Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for Parliamentarians | ||
| • 1647 | - | Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament | ||
| • 1663 | - | King Louis XIV affirms covenant with Ronstaten | ||
| • 1668 | - | England, Netherlands and Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French | ||
| • 1690 | - | Emperor Leopold I's son Joseph I chosen King of the Romans | ||
| • 1718 | - | Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire | ||
| • 1775 | - | London merchants petition for reconciliation with America | ||
| • 1779 | - | Charles Messier catalogs M56 (globular cluster in Lyra) | ||
| • 1789 | - | Georgetown University, first U.S. Catholic college, founded | ||
| • 1793 | - | Second partition of Poland, between Prussia and Russia | ||
| - | Humane Society of Philadelphia (first aid society) organized | |||
| • 1796 | - | Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500 | ||
| • 1812 | - | 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri | ||
| • 1832 | - | Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation | ||
| • 1845 | - | Uniform U.S. election day for president and Vice President authorized | ||
| • 1849 | - | Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first woman physician in US | ||
| - | US Patent granted for an envelope-making machine to Jesse K. Park and Cornelius S. Watson | |||
| • 1856 | - | Steamer Pacific along with her entire complement of almost 200 passengers and crew go missing without a trace on a voyage from Liverpool to New York. | ||
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| • 1714 | - |  Howell Harris -- Clergy | ||
| • 1729 | - |  Clara Reeve -- Writers | ||
| • 1730 | - |  Joseph Hewes -- Governance • Commerce | ||
| • 1734 | - |  Wolfgang von Kempelen -- Writers • Inventors | ||
| • 1751 | - |  Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz -- Writers | ||
| • 1783 | - |  Stendhal -- Writers | ||
| • 1786 | - | Auguste de Montferrand -- Architects | ||
| • 1798 | - |  Joan Cornelis Reynst -- Governance | ||
| • 1813 | - |  Camilla Collett -- Writers | ||
| - |  Charles Harpur -- Writers | |||
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| • 1516 | - |  Ferdinand II of Aragon -- Governance | ||
| • 1570 | - | James Stewart -- Governance | ||
| • 1622 | - | William Baffin -- Explorers | ||
| • 1648 | - | Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla -- Writers | ||
| • 1654 | - | Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert -- Artists | ||
| • 1698 | - |  Ernest Augustus -- Governance | ||
| • 1744 | - |  Giambattista Vico -- Writers • Legal | ||
| • 1750 | - | Ludovico Antonio Muratori -- Clergy • Writers | ||
| • 1760 | - | Giovanni Antonio Guardi -- Artists | ||
| • 1785 | - |  Matthew Stewart [2] -- Clergy • Scientists | ||
| • 1789 | - | Nicolas Beauzee -- Writers | ||
| - | Frances Brooke -- Writers | |||
| - | John Cleland -- Writers | |||
| • 1800 | - | Edward Rutledge -- Military • Governance | ||
| • 1805 | - | Claude Chappe -- Inventors | ||
| • 1806 | - | William Pitt the Younger -- Governance | ||
| • 1813 | - | George Clymer -- Governance • Commerce | ||
| • 1824 | - | Brooke Boothby -- Writers | ||
| • 1829 | - | Mary Wells -- Writers | ||
| • 1833 | - | Edward Pellew -- Naval | ||
| • 1854 | - | Robert Montgomery Bird -- Writers • Physicians | ||
Latest Broadsheets -- Daily news from around the world about the Early Modern EraOlder articles can be found in the Broadsheet Archive | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 08/24/2021 Did Martin Luther Write of the Plague, ‘I Shall Not Avoid Person or Place’? August 24, 2021, Snopes by Dan MacGuill The 16th century Reformation leader also condemned those who "distain the use of medicines" and "do not avoid places and persons infected by the plague." Claim: In 1527, Martin Luther wrote of the Black Death: "I shall ask God to mercifully protect us"; and "I shall not avoid person or place but will go freely." Rating: Correct Attribution | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 08/07/2021 Did George Washington Order Troops To Get Vaccinated Against Smallpox? August 07, 2021, Snopes by Dan Evon Washington wrote in 1777 that the Continental Army had more to "dread" from smallpox than from the "Sword of the Enemy." Claim: Gen. George Washington ordered troops to get vaccinated against smallpox during the Revolutionary War. Rating: Mostly True | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 12/25/2020 Krampus – The Half-Goat, Half-Demon Devil of Christmas December 04, 2020, HeritageDaily by Staff Around Christmastime, many European countries are celebrating Saint Nicholas Day, usually observed on the 6th December for the feast day of Nicholas of Myra. Saint Nicolas had many miracles attributed to his intercession, but is also known for his generous practice of gift-giving that gave rise to the traditional model of Santa Claus (“Saint Nick”) through Sinterklaas. Whilst Saint Nicolas rewards the well-behaved with gifts, children who misbehaved are visited by Krampus (sometimes with Saint Nicolas), a horned, anthropomorphic figure described as a “half-goat, half-demon” on Krampus Night or Krampusnacht (December 5th). | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 12/24/2020 The Forgotten History of Jingle Bells November 21, 2017, Now I Know by Dan Lewis The first episode of the Simpsons — Season 1, Episode 1 — debuted on December 17, 1989. Homer and Marge (with Maggie in tow) make their way to Springfield Elementary School for Lisa and Bart’s Christmas concert. Bart’s grade is singing a Christmas melody featuring the iconic song “Jingle Bells.” But Bart, as seen in this clip goes with some alternative lyrics — “Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg; the Batmobile broke its wheel; the Joker got awa–,” resulting in him being pulled off-stage. Jingle Bells, the lesson we should learn, is a wholesome Christmas song, not one to be manipulated by a rascally fourth grader. But that lesson is wrong. Jingle Bells is neither a wholesome song nor about Christmas. | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 11/15/2020 Archaeologists dig to uncover one of America's first Black churches in Colonial Williamsburg September 17, 2020, NBC News by Jewel Wicker A gathering in 1776 on a plantation of enslaved and free Black people in colonial Virginia established what would become one of America's first known Black Christian congregations. Although Williamsburg's First Baptist Church has long abandoned its original sites, a group of archaeologists is digging to unearth clues into this early American group of worshippers. While worshippers met in defiance of laws barring Black people from meeting in large numbers, white landowner Jesse Cole could hear them from his home, and he often listened along with his wife. Cole offered the group a piece of property on Nassau Street to establish a physical church. By 1828, the church had a recorded 619 members. | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 11/13/2020 Thomas Jefferson Descendant Calls For Removal Of His Famous Ancestor’s Statues June 19, 2020, The Huffington Post by Jeremy Blum Shannon Lanier, a ninth-generation direct descendant of President Thomas Jefferson, believes that statues of the Founding Father would be better off in museums. Lanier, who works as a journalist and is related to Jefferson through the third president’s relationship with enslaved woman Sally Hemings, penned his thoughts in a Newsweek editorial, arguing that Jefferson was “a participant in the institution of slavery—perhaps the most notorious one among the Founding Fathers, not least because of the jarring contrast between what he practiced and what he preached.” | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 11/11/2020 The Forgotten American Explorer Who Discovered Huge Parts of Antarctica March 26, 2020, Smithsonian Magazine by Gillen D’Arcy Wood The early-1900s exploits of intrepid explorers like Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton captured the public imagination. With the benefit of cameras and deft handling of newspaper media, the Edwardian British explorers, alongside their Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen, established themselves as heroic polar pioneers. In the process, however, the south polar exploits of their American forerunner, Charles Wilkes, have been largely forgotten. It was the round-the-world expedition by Wilkes—whose scientific collection constituted the first treasures of the infant Smithsonian—that first established the continental dimensions of Antarctica. But in a twist of 19th-century international politics, that claim to Antarctica was denied to the Americans by the pole-hungry British. Fast forward to today, and the United States finds itself in another nationalistic race to capitalize on the frozen southern continent. This time, its sparring partner is China. | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 11/09/2020 America’s First Connoisseur May 21, 2020, The Paris Review by Edward White Among his many claims to distinction, Thomas Jefferson can be regarded as America’s first connoisseur. The term and the concept emerged among the philosophes of eighteenth-century Paris, where Jefferson lived between 1784 and 1789. As minister to France he gorged on French culture. In five years, he bought more than sixty oil paintings, and many more objets d’art. He attended countless operas, plays, recitals, and masquerade balls. He researched the latest discoveries in botany, zoology and horticulture, and read inveterately—poetry, history, philosophy. In every inch of Paris he found something to stir his senses and cultivate his expertise. “Were I to proceed to tell you how much I enjoy their architecture, sculpture, painting, music,” he wrote a friend back in America, “I should want words.” Ultimately, he poured all these influences into Monticello, the plantation he inherited from his father, which Jefferson redesigned into a palace of his own refined tastes. More than in its domed ceilings, its gardens, or its galleries, it was in Monticello’s dining room that Jefferson the connoisseur reigned. Here, he shared with his guests recipes, produce, and ideas that continue to have a sizable effect on how and what Americans eat. | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 11/07/2020 Mysterious, centuries-old rock inscription finally deciphered February 27, 2020, LiveScience by Mindy Weisberger A mysterious, 230-year-old rock inscription in a French harbor stumped translators for decades. But now, nearly a year after the launch of a contest to decipher the writing, experts have finally decoded its secret message. In May 2019, officials in the town of Plougastel-Daoulas in Finistère, France, challenged members of the public to interpret the 20-line carved message, Live Science previously reported. Etched into a stone in a cove that's accessible only at low tide, the writing included two dates — 1786 and 1787 — as well as letters and symbols such as a heart-topped cross and a ship. | |||
| posted on Colonial Sense: 11/05/2020 Pilgrim fathers: harsh truths amid the Mayflower myths of nationhood September 20, 2020, The Guardian (UK) by Carrie Gibson For a ship that would sail into the pages of history, the Mayflower was not important enough to be registered in the port book of Plymouth in 1620. Pages from September of that year bear no trace of the vessel, because it was only only 102 passengers and not cargo, making it of no official interest. The port book is one of the many surprising objects at Mayflower 400: Legend & Legacy, the inaugural exhibition of the Box in Plymouth, Devon, which will open to the public later this month, and which is part of the city’s efforts to mark the 400th anniversary of the ship’s Atlantic crossing. “This wasn’t a huge historic voyage in 1620. If anything, it was an act of madness because they were going at the wrong time of year into an incredibly dangerous Atlantic,” said the exhibition’s curator, Jo Loosemore. | |||
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| Census People: 11,727 | Pix: 5,465 (46.60%) | Countries: 10,930 (93.20%) | Dates: 4,077 (34.77%) | Bio: 10,497 (89.51%) | TLs: 1,426 (12.16%)/3,770 (48.75%) | Links: 19,342 (164.94%) | Gallery: 117 (1.00%) | Notes: 1,884 (16.07%) | ||
| Architecture: Fortifications: 142 | Pix: 2 (1.41%) | Countries: 142 (100.00%) | Dates: 0 (0.00%) | Bio: 88 (61.97%) | TLs: 2 (1.41%)/9 | Links: 118 (83.10%) | Gallery: 118 (83.10%) | Notes: 118 (83.10%) | ||
| Dictionary Entries: 1,409 | Broadsheet Archive: 3,215 | Food and Farming Items: 200 |
| Timeline Events: 7,734 Tagged: 6,399 (82.74%) With Links: 4,512 (58.34%) Total Links: 5,684 | ||
| Colonial Quotes: 3,327 | Trivia Challenge: 293 | Videos: 92 |
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