John of Lancaster love

John of Lancaster

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • English soldier and statesman who was regent of England and France (1422–1435) during the early reign of his nephew, Henry VI.

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Examples

  • In the same year he was sent to the north with a letter directed to John of Lancaster ordering the latter to come to London to the king's council.

    Chaucer's Official Life James Root Hulbert 1926

  • The others under a divided command, make head against the King's troops under John of Lancaster.

    William Shakespeare John Masefield 1922

  • John of Lancaster, and he had imprisoned John Ball, the peasant leader, as his predecessors had done, at Maidstone.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • In the same year he was sent to the north with a letter directed to John of Lancaster ordering the latter to come to London to the king's council.

    Chaucer's Official Life Hulbert, James Root, 1884- 1912

  • [Sidenote: 1377] of William Courtenay, Bishop of London, and, had he not been protected by the powerful prince, John of Lancaster, it might have gone hard with him.

    The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

  • The first is from a Latin manuscript on arithmetic, [584] of which the original was written at Paris in 1424 by Rollandus, a Portuguese physician, who prepared the work at the command of John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, at one time Protector of England and Regent of France, to whom the work is dedicated.

    The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902

  • John of Lancaster as this, that a man cannot make him laugh.

    Obiter Dicta Augustine Birrell 1891

  • Hence his dislike to Prince John of Lancaster, and his mortification when he finds his wit fail on him: --

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • [Footnote: p. 230.] "Outwardly, much depended on the ascendancy of John of Lancaster.

    Chaucer's Official Life James Root Hulbert 1926

  • The only important fact which I have found with regard to de Graunson ” aside from those mentioned in Romania XIX ” is an indenture made apparently in 48 Edward III, between Otz de Granson chivaler, and John of Lancaster.

    Chaucer's Official Life Hulbert, James Root, 1884- 1912

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