14-453: Andrewe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Laurence Andrewe ( fl. 1510–1537), French translator and printer Thomas Andrewe ( fl. 1604), English poet See also [ edit ] Andrewes Andrew (surname) Andrews (surname) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Andrewe . If an internal link intending to refer to
28-460: A publication now in the public domain : " Andrewe, Laurence ". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. Oldys William Oldys (14 July 1696 – 15 April 1761) was an English antiquarian and bibliographer. He was probably born in London , the illegitimate son of Dr William Oldys (1636–1708), chancellor of Lincoln diocese. His father had held
42-463: A specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrewe&oldid=1095754916 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Laurence Andrewe Laurence Andrewe ( fl. 1510–1537),
56-463: The Prologue he observes: ‘After dyvers and sondry small volumes and tryfeles of myrth and pastaunce some newly composed, some translated and of late finished, [I am] now mynded to exercise my pene in mater to the reader some what more profitable.’ The book contains many woodcut illustrations of distilling apparatus with interesting figures and descriptions of plants. It is this work which has given Andrewe
70-644: The afternoon, never after supper', and 'much addicted to low company.'" The British Muse , one of the earliest poetry anthologies to appear in Britain, was published in 1738. From 1747 to 1760, Oldys contributed twenty-two articles to the Biographia Britannica . Oldys' father, Dr William Oldys (1636–1708), was the son of Rev. William Oldys (1591–1645), who had been murdered in Adderbury, Oxford by Parliamentarian soldiers. The account of his murder tells of how he
84-645: The art of printing from Jan van Doesborch or Peter Treveris (Ames's Typ. Ant. ed. Herbert, i.412), and practised for some time in London in Fleet Street , at the Golden Cross by Fleet Bridge . There, in 1527, he printed his own translation of ‘The vertuose boke of Distyllacion of the waters of all maner of Herbes by Jherom Bruynswyke , and now newly translate out of Duyche,’ sm. folio. He appears to have translated other minor works which have not come down to us, as in
98-681: The books and papers left in his charge. Among these was an annotated copy of Gerard Langbaine 's Dramatick Poets . The book came into the hands of Thomas Coxeter , and subsequently into those of Theophilus Cibber , furnishing the basis of the Lives of the Poets (1753) published with Cibber's name on the title page (though most of it was written by Robert Shiels ). In 1731 Oldys sold his collections to Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer , who appointed him his literary secretary in 1738. Three years later Harley died, and from that time Oldys worked for
112-570: The booksellers. His habits were irregular, and in 1751 his debts drove him to the Fleet prison . After two years' imprisonment he was released through the kindness of friends who paid his debts. In April 1755, he was appointed Norfolk Herald Extraordinary and then Norroy King of Arms by the Duke of Norfolk . According to the current College of Arms, Oldys was, "a noted antiquary and bibliographer but wholly ignorant of heraldry and known for being 'rarely sober in
126-527: The credit of producing an edition of the Grete Herball in 1527. He also printed, without a date, ‘The myrrour & dyscrypcion of the World,’ folio, a reproduction of the 1481 text of Caxton , with some of the original wood blocks. Herbert ( Typ. Ant. iii.1786) says: ‘I have a fragment of Æsop's Fables , bound with his Myrrour, which seems to have been also printed by him.’ Another undated production of his press
140-556: The office of advocate of the admiralty, but lost it in 1693 because he would not prosecute as traitors and pirates the sailors who had served against England under James II . 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 . On his return to London he found that his landlord had disposed of
154-414: Was a printer it might be printed by him, but then he must have been at Antwerp at that time.’ Another edition of a similar work is given by Herbert (p. 1529) as of 1499, and described precisely. Although not an original author, Andrewe deserves consideration as one of the earliest of those who translated into English works on scientific subjects. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from
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#1732876419112168-465: Was a translator and printer. He was from Calais , then controlled by the English. He translated in 1510 ‘The noble life and natures of man, of besets, serpent's, fowles & fishes, yt be made known [col.] Translated be me Laurens Andrewe of the towne of Calis, in the famous cite of Andwarpe. Emprented be me John of Doesborowe [n.d.]’ folio (Hazlitt's Coll. and Notes, 1876, p. 474). He probably learned
182-462: Was hunted all day due to his support of the monarchy and even though he threw down money to distract the closing pack, he was run through with a sword and died. The church bell in Adderbury still bears his name and on the wall of the vestry is a plaque written in Latin describing that dreadful day 15 September 1645. His wife Margaret née Sacheverell died 7 May 1705. She was the daughter of Ambrose Sacheverell,
196-401: Was ‘The Directory of Conscience,’ 4to. A work entitled ‘The Valuacion of Golde and Siluer. Made in the famous city of Antwarpe and newly translated into Englishe by me Laurens Andrewe … Emprentyd in the famous city of Andwarpe,’ without date or printer, is placed by Ames (Herbert's edition, i.412), who does not, however, appear to have seen it, at 1537, with the remark: ‘Mr. Oldis supposed as he
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