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Brewer's: Bluff Harry
or Hal. Henry VIII., so called from his bluff and burly manners (1491, 1509-1547.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BlunderboreBluff A B C D E F G H I…Brewer's: Marching Watch
A splendid pageant on Midsummer Eve, which Henry VIII. took Jane Seymour to Mercers' Hall to see. In 1547 Sir John Gresham, the Lord Mayor, restored the pageant, which had been…Brewer's: Scavenger's Daughter
An instrument of torture invented by Sir William Skevington, lieutenant of the Tower in the reign of Henry VIII. As Skevington was the father of the instrument, the instrument was his…Brewer's: Peter-pence
An annual tribute of one penny, paid at the feast of St. Peter to the see of Rome. At one time it was collected from every family, but afterwards it was restricted to those “who had the…Brewer's: Regius Professor
One who holds in an English university a professorship founded by Henry VIII. Each of the five Regius Professors of Cambridge receives a royally-endowed stipend of about 40. In the…Brewer's: Paris-Garden
A bear-garden; a noisy, disorderly place. In allusion to the bear-garden so called on the Thames bank-side, kept by Robert de Paris in the reign of Richard II. “Do you take the court for a…Brewer's: Tizzy
(A). A sixpence. A variant of tester. In the reign of Henry VIII. a “testone” was a shilling, but only sixpence in the reign of Elizabeth. (French, teste, tête, the [monarch's] head.)…Brewer's: Whip with Six Strings
(The). Called “the Bloody Statute.” The religious code of six articles enacted by Convocation and Parliament in the reign of Henry VIII. (1539…Brewer's: “Surest Way to Peace is a constant Preparation for War”
Fox, afterwards Bishop of Hereford, to Henry VIII. (In Latin, “Si vis pacem, para bellum.”) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SuretySure as Demoivre A B C…Brewer's: Wallop
To thrash. Sir John Wallop, in the reign of Henry VIII., was sent to Normandy to make reprisals, because the French fleet had burnt Brighton. Sir John…Trending
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