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Henry and Sully
His chief work on penance, the Liber poenitenitalis dedicated to Henry de Sully, exercised great influence on the many manuals of penance produced as a result of the Fourth Lateran Council.
The English clockmaker Henry Sully had already invented a marine clock to determine longitude accurately, a sophisticated pendulum clock.
* Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully of France ( 1560 – 1641 ), Favourite and minister under Henry IV and Louis XIII
Ably assisted by Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, Henry reduced the land tax known as the taille ; promoted agriculture, public works, construction of highways, and the first French canal ; started such important industries as the tapestry works of the Gobelins ; and intervened in favor of Protestants in the duchies and earldoms along the German frontier.
* Uncredited cast members include Hooper Atchley, James Donlan, Don Douglas, Billy Engle, Robert Fiske, James Flavin, Byron Foulger, Gregory Gaye, Fay Holden, Mary Howard, Gladden James, Cyril Ring, Henry Roquemore, Syd Saylor, Frank Sully, Phillip Terry and Richard Tucker.
The Concinis had Henry IV's able minister, the Duke of Sully, dismissed, and Italian representatives of the Roman Catholic Church hoped to force the suppression of Protestantism in France by means of their influence.
The discovery of the burial is described by chroniclers, notably Gerald of Wales, as being just after King Henry II's reign when the new abbot of Glastonbury, Henry de Sully, commissioned a search of the abbey grounds.
Henry and his advisor, the Duke of Sully saw the essential first step in this to be the negotiation of the Edict of Nantes, which, rather than being a sign of genuine toleration, was in fact a kind of grudging truce between the religions, with guarantees for both sides.
At the monastic cathedral of Worcester, he disciplined the monks between the death of Henry de Sully and the election of John of Coutances, as was his right as the archbishop of the province.
He praised Calonne, comparing him with the great Sully, and likened Louis XVI to Henry IV of France, but he ended up as the Reign of Terror's official poet.
After the death of Henry IV, de Thou had a disappointment ; the queen regent, Marie de Medici, refused him the position of premier président of the parlement, appointing him instead as a member of the Conseil des finances intended to take the place of Sully.
According to two accounts by the chronicler, Giraldus Cambrensis, the abbot, Henry de Sully, commissioned a search, discovering at the depth of a massive hollowed oak trunk containing two skeletons.
Previous military expeditions against the Sioux by Alfred Sully, Henry Hastings Sibley, and Patrick Edward Connor from 1863 to 1865 had numbered more than 2, 000 soldiers.
Maximilien de Béthune, first Duke of Sully ( 13 December 1560 – 22 December 1641 ) was the doughty soldier, French minister, staunch Huguenot and faithful right-hand man who assisted Henry IV of France in the rule of France.
It was Sully, too, who arranged the marriage between Henry IV and Marie de ' Medici.
The political role of Sully effectively ended with the assassination of Henry IV on 14 May 1610.
After Henry IV, Sully caused the happy transformation in France between 1598 and 1610, by which agriculture and commerce were benefited and foreign peace and internal order were reestablished.
* Isabelle ( died 1335 ), married ( 1287 ) Louis III, Duke of Lower Bavaria ; then Lord Henry of Sully ; and then ( 1306 ) Count Henry III of Vaudémont ( died 1348 )
* Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully ( 1560 – 1641 ), French statesman and minister of Henry IV
The château was expanded by Maximilien de Béthune, first duke of Sully and Minister of King Henry IV of France ( 1560 – 1641 ), who is buried on the grounds of his château.
Then Henry of Blois tried to secure the see for Henry de Sully, another nephew of Stephen and Henry's.

Henry and writing
Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.
Sir Henry Howorth, writing in 1898, put himself firmly in the Lappenburg-Kemble tradition by attacking the veracity of the West Saxon annals.
His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.
In the contemporary writing of the priest Henry of Livonia from Riga it is said that Bishop Theoderich was killed during the 1219 battle, when the enemy stormed his tent, thinking it was the King's tent.
Lyly installed Henry Evans, a Welsh scrivener and theatrical affectionado, as the manager of the new company of Oxford's Boys, composed of the Children of the Chapel and the Children of Paul's, and turned his talents to play writing until the end of June, 1584, when the original playhouse lease was voided by its owner.
The Cobhams appear to have intervened while Shakespeare was in the process of writing either The Merry Wives of Windsor or the second part of Henry IV.
He acquired goats, a rooster he called " Henry Ford ", and a poodle puppy he called " Marx " and settled down to animal husbandry and writing Homage to Catalonia.
Influenced by Henry Salt's writing, he joined the Vegetarian Society, was elected to its executive committee, and started a local Bayswater chapter.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917 he edited several journals, lectured on writing, and edited Russian translations of works by Jack London, O. Henry, H. G. Wells, and others.
One of the first people to do so was the English historian Henry Bourne, who, writing in the 1720s, described the practice occurring in the Tyne valley.
Sanders held Anne responsible for Henry VIII's rejection of the Catholic church, and writing fifty years after her death, was keen to demonize her.
He remained " at the top of the tree ," as he put it, for the remaining decade and a half of his life, producing several large novels, notably Pendennis, The Newcomes, and The History of Henry Esmond, despite various illnesses, including a near fatal one that struck him in 1849 in the middle of writing Pendennis.
His writing influenced many subsequent novelists such as Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Benito Pérez Galdós, Marie Corelli, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino, and philosophers such as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.
A crystal lens, turned on the lathe, was discovered by Austen Henry Layard at Nimrud along with glass vases bearing the name of Sargon ; this could explain the excessive minuteness of some of the writing on the Assyrian tablets, and a lens may also have been used in the observation of the heavens.
* 1980: William A. Henry III, Boston Globe, " for critical writing about television.
* 2000: Henry Allen, Washington Post, " for his fresh and authoritative writing on photography.
He lived to see the tragic death at sea in November 1120 of William Adeling, the son of his niece Edith and heir to Henry I. Edgar was still alive in 1125 according to William of Malmesbury who was writing at the time.
In the 19th century Admiral William Henry Smyth, writing in his nautical lexicon The Sailor's Word-Book, described Friday as
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), by Henry Watson Fowler ( 1858 – 1933 ), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing.
In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry W. Fowler ’ s general approach encourages a direct, vigorous writing style, and opposes all artificiality, by firmly advising against convoluted sentence construction, the use of foreign words and phrases, and the use of archaisms.
Before writing A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry Fowler and his younger brother, Francis George Fowler ( 1871 – 1918 ), wrote and revised The King's English ( 1906 ), a grammar and usage guide later superseded by this book in the 1930s.
Nervous of the lengths to which Anne might go, James formally charged Mar in writing never to surrender Henry to anyone except on orders from his own mouth, " because in the surety of my son consists my surety ," nor to yield Henry to the Queen even in the event of his own death.
Henry Newbolt, writing in the early 1930s, estimated that there were at least 1000 active British poets ; the vast majority of these would be recognisably ' Georgian ', making the pool of names close to unfathomable.

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