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In 1748 a folio edition of Drayton's complete works was published under the editorial supervision of William Oldys, and again in 1753 there appeared an issue in four volumes quarto.
It seems likely, however, that the link between the saying and the Globe was made only later, originating with the industrious early Shakespeare biographer William Oldys, who claimed as his source a private manuscript to which he once had access.
William Oldys ( British Librarian, p. 374 ) acknowledges obligations to Ames, whom he styles ‘ a worthy preserver of antiquities .’
William Oldys said of him that he " would not stoop to fawn ," and some of his verses seem to show that he disliked the pressures of life at court.
The illegitimate son of Dr William Oldys, chancellor of Lincoln, London was probably his place of birth.
William Oldys, the younger, lost part of his small patrimony in the South Sea Bubble, and in 1724 went to Yorkshire, spending the greater part of the next six years as the guest of the Earl of Malton.
William Oldys was the son of John Oldys b. 13 July 1563 who was son of John Oldys b. 1520 who was son of John Oldys, Bishop of Clanmacknoise, Ireland in 1444 who was son of Richard Oldys b. 1366.
( William Oldys reports a traditional view that the inscription on Jonson's tomb (" O rare Ben Jonson ") refers to the applause this play received, after the failure of Catiline, indicating some degree of popularity.
William and 1795
* 1795 – The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands.
The style gained momentum in the west with the publication of views of India by William Hodges, and William and Thomas Daniell from about 1795.
William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau ( Willem Batavus ; 8 March 1748 – 9 April 1806 ) was the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, and between 1795 and 1806 he led the Government of the Dutch Republic in Exile in London.
Supported by the French Army, the revolutionaries returned from Paris to fight in the Netherlands, and in 1795 William V fled to the safety of England.
The name first appears in 1795 in William Owen Pughe's Cambrian Register: " The Mabinogion, or Juvenile Amusements, being Ancient Welsh Romances.
* William Bradford ( 1755 – 1795 ), fought in the American Revolution and became attorney general and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
" The time and circumstances under which the name South Orange originated will probably never be known ," wrote historian William H. Shaw in 1884, " and we are obliged to fall back on a tradition, that Mr. Nathan Squier first used the name in an advertisement offering wood for sale " in 1795.
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