humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

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Friday February 25, 1594 (after Ash Wednesday)
Henry IV crowned king of France.

<Stationers'
Registers on the 25th of February, 1597-8 as "a booke intitluled The
historye of
Henry the iiijth with his battaile of Shrewsburye against Henry
Hottspurre of
the Northe with the conceipted mirthe of sir John ffalstoff;" and a
quarto
edition was printed in 1598.>> - http://tinyurl.com/2ukb8k
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Peter Nockolds wrote,
>
> 25 Feb 1598 =3D Shrove Saturday
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2vk98l
>
> The Earl of Essex wrote to Sir Robert Cecil
> between 25 and 28 February 1598
> asking him to inform their friend Sir Alex Ratcliff
> that 'his sister is married to Sir John Falstaff
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Saturday February 25, 1598 : Henry IV, Part I, registered
=2E.....................................................
____ King Henry IV, Part i Act 2, Scene 4

FALSTAFF: Shall the blessed *SUN* of heaven
_ prove a micher and *eat blackberries* ?
_ a question not to be asked. Shall the *SUN*
_ of England prove a thief and take purses?
_ a question to be asked.
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Saturday February 25, 1598 RARE TOTAL solar eclipse
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/5MCSEmap/1501-1600/1598-03-07.gif
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=2E Greatest Saros Eclipse. Sun Path
Date Eclipse Type # Gamma Mag. Lat. Long. Alt Width
(N.S.) U.T.. . =B0 =B0 =B0 km
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1598 Mar 07 10:08 T 133 0.889 1.021 47.7N 8.0W 27 156
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THE TOTAL ECLIPSE EVENT for southern Great Britain
=2E was February 25, 1598 (O.S.):
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(Total) Eclipses Visible from Cornwall
http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=3D6325

=2E 24 January 1023
=2E 14 May 1230

=2E 25 February 1598

=2E 3 May 1715
=2E 11 August 1999
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HISTORICAL (Total) ECLIPSES IN WALES
http://brynjones.members.beeb.net/wastronhist/eclipseshist.html

Total solar eclipses occur only extremely rarely
=2E at any single place on the Earth.
The last total solar eclipses visible in Wales occurred in:

=2E January 1023
=2E March 1140

=2E February 1598

=2E April 1652
=2E May 1715
=2E May 1724
=2E June 1927
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http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SENL/SENL200302A.pdf
http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/quotes3.html

February 25, 1598 "There is a tradition that some persons in the north
*LOST THEIR WAY* in the time of this eclipse, and perished in the
snow." Refers to the total solar eclipse of 25 February 1598.
From: Maclaurin, Philosophical Transactions, vol xi, p193, 1737.
Quoted in UK Solar Eclipses from Year 1 by Williams.
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King Ethelbert of Kent, Feast day : February 25 & 26
(also known as =C6dilberct, =C6thelberht, Aibert, Edilbertus)

Born c. 560; died at Canterbury on February 24, 616;

<his use,
founded a cathedral there, and built the abbey of Saints *Peter &
Paul* just
outside the city walls. He also laid the foundations for Saint
Andrew's in
Rochester and many other churches. He built the cathedral of *Saint
Paul's in
London* in the territory of King Sebert. Upon his death, Ethelbert was
buried
beside his first wife Bertha in the porticus (side-chapel) of St.
Martin in the
Abbey Church of SS. Peter and Paul. Later his relics were deposited
under
the high altar of that same church, then called Saint Austin's.
Polydore Virgil
reports that a vigil light was kept before the tomb of St. Ethelbert,
and was
sometimes an instrument of miracles even in the days of King Henry
VIII.
There seems to have been an unofficial cultus at Canterbury from
early times,
but his feast is found in calendars only from the 13th century, and
generally
on February 25 or 26, because Saint Matthias occupied February 24.>>
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Saturday February 26, 1564 Christ. MAR-L.O. Christened
________________ + 2 x 17
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Saturday February 25, 1598 RARE TOTAL solar eclipse
Saturday February 25, 1598 Henry IV, Part I, registered
Saturday July 22, 1598 The Merchant of Venice registered
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"WILLIAM CECIL, BARON BURGHLEY." 1911 Encyclopedia.
http://26.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BU/BURGHLEY_WILLIAM_CECIL_BARON.htm

<and the worthless Thomas, Burghley died at his London house on
[Friday] August 4, 1598, and was buried in St Martins, Stamford.
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Marlowe was released from the Privy Council on May 20, 1593 (Julian)
_ and was killed the same *SUNday* : May 30, 1593 (Greg.)

during the eclipse of the *SUN* that started the 1001st Ramadan.

There was simultaneously a *SATURN / VENUS* conjunction.
_ (the 29+ *SATURN* period ~ Marlowe's age.)

PRINCE HAL (aside to Poins) *SATURN & VENUS* this
_ year in conjunction! What says th' almanac to that?
_. (Henry IV, Part I, 2.4.264-6)
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On Shrove Tuesday, February 24, 1601, the Lord Chamberlains's Men
_. were summoned for a Command Performance.
=2E
<is explained by a sentence in the Anglo-Saxon _Ecclesiastical
Institutes_ translated by Abbot Aelfric about A.D. 1000: "In the week
immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess
his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then my hear
by his deeds what he is to do [in the way of penance]".>>
=2E
http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/19980101/ARTICLES/SHROVE.HTM
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On Ash Wednesday, February 25, 1601, Essex was beheaded
____________ 'in a private ceremony.'
__ "He acknowledged, with thankfulness to God,
____ that he was thus spewed out of the realm."
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Art Neuendorffer