The following year The Arte of English Poesie, attributed to George Puttenham, placed Oxford among a " crew " of courtier poets ; he also considered Oxford among the best comic playwrights of the day.

( 2 ) The Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), attributed to George Puttenham, includes Oxford on a list of courtier poets and prints some of his verses as exemplars of " his excellencie and wit.

In another passage 23 chapters later, the author ( probably George Puttenham ) speaks of aristocratic writers who, if their writings were made public, would appear to be excellent.

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** George Puttenham, critic ( d. 1590 )

George Puttenham, calls it a satire in his Arte of English Poesie, noting its obscure language unapprovingly.

These include Friedrich Schiller, George Puttenham, William Empson, Frank Kermode, Raymond Williams, Renato Poggioli, Annabel Patterson, Paul Alpers, and Ken Hiltner.

George Puttenham was one of the first Pastoral theorists.

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In his social-climbing manual, Elizabethan George Puttenham recommends that would-be courtiers have " sickness in his sleeve, thereby to shake off other importunities of greater consequence " and suggests feigning a " dry dropsy [...] of some such other secret disease, as the common conversant can hardly discover, and the physician either not speedily heal, or not honestly bewray.

George Puttenham, in the Arte of English Poesie speaks of " Maister Edward Dyar, for Elegie most sweete, solemne, and of high conceit.

George was the second son of Robert Puttenham of Sherfield-on-Loddon in Hampshire and his wife Margaret, the daughter of Sir Richard Elyot and sister of Sir Thomas Elyot.

These documents paint a decidedly troubled picture of George Puttenham as a compulsive adulterer, a serial rapist and a wife-beater.

George Puttenham is said to have been implicated in a plot against Lord Burghley in 1570 and in December 1578 was imprisoned.

Since George Puttenham received two leases in reversion from the queen in 1588, this seems to clearly identify him as the author.

There is no direct evidence beyond Bolton's ascription to identify the author with George or Richard Puttenham, the sons of Robert Puttenham and his wife Margaret, the sister of Sir Thomas Elyot, who dedicated his treatise on the Education or Bringing up of Children to her for the benefit of her sons.

Richard Puttenham is known to have spent much of his time abroad, whereas George is only known to have left England a single time, to get the deed for Sherfield House from his brother.

According to George Puttenham, presumptive author of The Arte of English Poesie, Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, " trauailed into Italie " ( 49 ) and brought back the verse forms that make them " the first reformers of our English meter and stile " ( 49 ).

* Walter Nash, " George Puttenham ," The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 281: British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660, Second Series, Detroit: Gale, 2003, pp. 229 – 248.

* Steven W. May, ‘ Puttenham, George ( 1529 – 1590 / 91 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 8 Nov 2007

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When a union of the evangelicals in upper and lower Germany was contemplated as a means of improved defense against the retaliatory measures of the Roman Catholic Church, George had a meeting with Elector John of Saxony at Schleitz in 1529, where they agreed on certain articles of faith and confession to be drawn up by Luther ; the commission was executed in the seventeen articles of Schwabach on the basis of the fifteen theses of the Marburg Colloquy.

* Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 12 May 1529 – 2 November 1575 ) married John George, Elector of Brandenburg.

Secondly, he married Margravine Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 12 May 1529 – 2 November 1575 ), daughter of George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, in 1548.

George Cavendish, Wolsey's chamberlain, records that the servants who waited on the king and Anne at dinner in 1529 in Grafton heard her say that the dishonour that Wolsey had brought upon the realm would have cost any other Englishman his head.

** George Blaurock, Swiss founder of Anabaptism ( d. 1529 )

* George Boleyn ( c. 1504 – 17 May 1536 ); later Viscount Rochford ( 1529 – 1536 ) by courtesy

George Cavendish says in a poem that George was about 27 when he gained a place on the Privy Council in 1529.

In addition to Cavendish's verses, foreign diplomats believed George was too young to be appointed as Ambassador to France in October 1529.

It was also in December 1529 that he was ennobled as George, Viscount Rochford, and undertook his first assignment as a diplomat to France as Ambassador.

* George Boleyn ( 1504 – 1529 )

* Sir George Boleyn ( c. October 1529 )

In 1529 he became secretary to Duke George of Saxony, at Dresden and Meissen.

Jörg vom Haus Jacob ( Georg Cajacob, or George of the House of Jacob ), commonly known as George Blaurock ( c. 1491 – September 6, 1529 ), with Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz, was co-founder of the Swiss Brethren in Zürich, and thereby one of the founders of Anabaptism.

* George Hastings, 5th Baron Hungerford ( 1488 – 1545 ) ( created Earl of Huntingdon in 1529 )

# George Sisler: 1529

In Oct., 1529, he attended the Colloquy of Marburg, and in the following year, at the request of the Margrave George of Brandenburg, he was present at the diet in Augsburg, where he seconded Melanchthon in his efforts to reach an agreement with the adherents of the ancient faith, but refused all association with the followers of Zwingli.

Mary Hungerford married William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings in about 1478 and their son George was created Earl of Huntingdon in 1529.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* George Orwell's Animal Farm – MP3 Audio ( web archive )

* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).

* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )

* 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1471 – George, Duke of Saxony ( d. 1539 )

* 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia ( d. 1972 )

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1976 – Melissa George, Australian actress

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )

* 1943 – Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )

* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )

* 1947 – King George II of Greece ( b. 1890 )

* 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer ( d. 1883 )

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.