David Sedley, in his book Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity, traces creationist thought to the presocratic thinkers Anaxagoras and Empedocles, in the 5th century BCE.

Sarah had a rival for Churchill in Catherine Sedley, a wealthy mistress of James II and the choice of Churchill's father, Sir Winston Churchill, who was anxious to restore the family's fortune.

It was later granted into the possession of Sir John Sedley by Mary's half-sister Queen Elizabeth.

Although the Sedley family made some changes to the priory, it was the next owner Sir John Banks that was responsible for the rebuilding of the Friary during the 1670s.

His great-grandfather William Phipps had married Lady Catherine Annesley, who was the daughter and heiress of James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey and his wife Lady Catherine Darnley ( an illegitimate daughter of King James II by his mistress Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester ).

His great-grandfather William Phipps had married Lady Catherine Annesley, who was the daughter and heiress of James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey and his wife Lady Catherine Darnley ( an illegitimate daughter of King James II by his mistress Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester ).

Buckingham was one of the archetypal Restoration rakes, part of the " Merry Gang " of courtiers whose other members included John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and the playwrights William Wycherley and George Etherege.

He was the son of William Phipps and Lady Catherine Annesley ( daughter and heiress of James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey and his wife Lady Catherine Darnley, illegitimate daughter of King James II by his mistress Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester ).

In the 17th century, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester ( 1647 – 80 ) was notorious for obscene verses, many of which were published posthumously in compendiums of poetry by him and other Restoration rakes such as Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and George Etherege.

The Earl of Mulgrave's grandfather William Phipps had married Lady Catherine Annesley, who was the daughter and heiress of James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey and his wife Lady Catherine Darnley ( an illegitimate daughter of King James II by his mistress Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester ).

His grandfather William Phipps had married Lady Catherine Annesley, who was the daughter and heiress of James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey and his wife Lady Catherine Darnley ( an illegitimate daughter of King James II by his mistress Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester ).

Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet ( March 1639 – 20 August 1701 ) was an English wit, dramatist and politician, ending his career as Speaker of the House of Commons.

Charles Sedley was the son of Sir John Sedley, 2nd Baronet, of Aylesford in Kent, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Savile.

Sedley's grandfather, William Sedley, was knighted in 1605 and created a baronet in 1611.

Sedley was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, but left without taking a degree.

Sedley died at Hampstead on 20 August 1701 and was buried at Southfleet Church on the 26th.

Sedley is famous as a patron of literature in the Restoration period, and was the Francophile Lisideius of Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy.

Apart from the prologues of his own plays, Sedley wrote at least four more prologues to comedies, the best-known of which was written for Shadwell's Epsom-Wells.

Sedley was reputed as a notorious rake and libertine, part of the " Merry Gang " gang of courtiers which included the Earl of Rochester and Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst.

In 1663 an indecent frolic in Bow Street, for which he was fined 2000 marks, made Sedley notorious.

Sedley was member of parliament for New Romney in Kent, and took an active and useful part in politics.

It was probably Sedley who wrote the Ballers ' Oath on behalf of them.

When Charles II died in 1685, Sedley was illegally excluded from the parliament of his successor James II, which convened on May 1685.

It was in the second Pariament of William, elected in March 1690, that Sedley was returned, his political career reaching its zenith through his becoming Speaker of the Commons.

BBC Radio broadcast an adaptation of the novel by Stephen Wyatt in 2004 starring Emma Fielding as Becky, Stephen Fry as the Narrator, Katy Cavanaugh as Amelia, David Calder, Philip Fox, Jon Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead as Mr. Osbourne, Ian Marsters as Mr. Sedley, Alice Hart as Maria Osbourne and Margaret Tyzack as Miss Crawley ( subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7, renamed BBC Radio 4 Extra, in twenty fifteen-minute episodes ).

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The appropriateness of the Italian source material for the setting of the solemn concluding chorus " His yoke is easy " has been questioned by the music scholar Sedley Taylor, who calls it " a piece of word-painting ... grieviously out of place ", though he concedes that the four-part choral conclusion is a stroke of genius that combines beauty with dignity.

Lord Justice Sedley, in his decision regarding Redmond-Bate v Director of Public Prosecutions ( 1999 ), described Speakers ' Corner as demonstrating " the tolerance which is both extended by the law to opinion of every kind and expected by the law in the conduct of those who disagree, even strongly, with what they hear.

Dubbed the " Merry Gang " by poet Andrew Marvell, their members included George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and the playwrights William Wycherley and George Etherege.

He met Ann Ayscough, probably around 1670, by whom he had two illegitimate sons, William and Charles Sedley.

He met Ann Ayscough, probably around 1670, by whom he had two illegitimate sons, William and Charles Sedley.

* ( possibly by Sedley ) The Tyrant King of Crete ; shortened version of Henry Killigrew's Pallantus and Eudora.

* ( possibly by Sedley ) The Grumbler ; translation of a French farce Le Grondeur

They appear to have been acquitted, for when in 1663 Sir Charles Sedley was tried for a gross breach of public decency in Covent Garden, Sackville, who had been one of the offenders, according to Samuel Pepys was asked by the Lord Chief Justice " whether he had so soon forgot his deliverance at that time, and that it would have more become him to have been at his prayers begging God's forgiveness than now running into such courses again.

She travels by carriage to her new position, stopping on the way to see her best friend Amelia Sedley ( Romola Garai ) at Amelia's home.

Her grandmother, née Henrietta-Maria Phipps, was also a descendant of James II of England by Catherine Sedley.

* Amelia Sedley in Vanity Fair ( novel ) by William Thackeray

She is extremely manipulative and, after the first few chapters and her failure to attract Jos Sedley, is not shown as being particularly sincere.

After his first wife had been sent to a convent in Ghent on account of a serious mental condition, Sedley in vain tried to obtain a divorce.

By his first wife Lady Katherine Savage, daughter of John, 2nd Earl Rivers he had only one legitimate child, Catherine, Countess of Dorchester, mistress of James II After his first wife had been sent to a convent in Ghent on account of a serious mental condition, Sedley in vain tried to obtain a divorce.

Neil Sedley is chief engineer, while Peter Gee is head of creative.