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28-891: Sherburne may refer to: People with the surname [ edit ] Edward Sherburne (1618–1702), English poet, translator, and Royalist Henry Sherburne (1611–1680), early settler in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Henry Sherburne (colonel) (1748-1824), officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution John C. Sherburne (1883-1959), attorney and judge from Vermont John Samuel Sherburne (1757–1830), politician from New Hampshire Moses Sherburne (1808–1868), jurist and politician from Maine and Minnesota Places [ edit ] Sherburne, Kentucky , an unincorporated community Sherburne County, Minnesota ,

56-600: A county in the central part of the state Sherburne (town), New York , a town in Chenango County, and Sherburne (village), New York , a village therein Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge , Minnesota Lake Sherburne , Montana Killington, Vermont (formerly known as Sherburne), a ski resort town in Vermont Other uses [ edit ] USS Sherburne (APA-205) A well-known melody from

84-641: Is a Divine Providence". The latter contained a dedication to the 'King of Sorrows' Charles I, then captive on the Isle of Wight, who may detect " a glympse of Your own invincible Patience and inimitable Magnanimity; in bearing and ever-mastering Mis-fortunes " carefully omitting the continuing line " being a Stoicall Exhortation to the Anticipation of Death ". Following the execution of the king in January 1649, Sherburne moved from London, along with Thomas Stanley, staying at

112-615: Is buried in the chapel of the Tower. Sherburne's literary reputation rests principally on his work as a translator. His poems, rare in number and largely unoriginal, serve largely to illuminate the literary fashions of the day, rather than stand as model works in their own right. Books : Stonyhurst Stonyhurst is the name of a 1,000-acre (4 km ) rural estate owned by the Society of Jesus near Clitheroe in Lancashire , England. It

140-457: Is centred on Stonyhurst College , occupying the great house, its preparatory school Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall and the parish church, St Peter's . The grounds are bounded by the River Hodder , the village of Hurst Green and Longridge Fell . The Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty overlaps in places. The earliest deed for the estate dates back to 1200 A.D. when it

168-471: Is written, ‘OFT EVENINGS GLAD MAKE MORNINGS SAD'. On the left is ‘PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF JAMES WELLS' and on the right, ‘DIED FEB. 12TH, 1834'. Saint Paulinus' Cross stands at Kemple End and is a listed monument believed to date from Anglo-Saxon times. It may well mark a spot at which Saint Paulinus of York , who converted King Edwin of Northumbria and founded the See of York , preached. Hague’s Cross stands above

196-586: The River Hodder in the woods close to the former Jesuit novitiate and preparatory school, Hodder Place. This commemorates the death of William Hague who drowned in the Hodder here (the old Stonyhurst bathing huts are located in Hodder Wood), on the 5th of April, 1877. The grounds of St Mary's Hall contain a Marian grotto and a statue of the Sacred Heart . The estate is a tourist attraction. Many visitors come to view

224-505: The Sacred Harp , to which the lyric, " While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night ", by Nahum Tate, may be sung See also [ edit ] Henry Sherburne House , ca, 1766-1770, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Sherburn (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sherburne . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

252-628: The Restoration Sherburne was restored to his office as Clerk of the Ordnance, and references in state papers suggest that he continued to be a diligent public servant. In this role he was principal author of the Rules, Orders, and Instructions given to the office of ordnance in 1683 , which continued in use largely unaltered until the office was abolished in 1857. Near the time of the popish plot efforts were made to remove him on grounds of religion, but he

280-549: The collector and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane . It was at this stage that he began the truly literary portion of his life, devoting a great deal of time to scholarship of the classics and publishing his first independent published works in 1648, both translations in verse of Seneca the Younger : "Medea, a Tragedie, written in Latine, by Lucius Annæus Seneca" and "Seneca's Answer to Lucius his Quære: Why Good Men suffer Misfortunes, seeing there

308-485: The college would take the route to visit their younger brothers at Saint Mary's Hall although the term could originate from when St Mary's Hall operated as a seminary for trainee Jesuits. They walked along the path reciting the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius . A number of teachers and Jesuit priests work and live on the site. Adjacent to the school buildings are workshops employing masons and craftsmen working on

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336-534: The country homes of the latter's relations in Cumberlow Green, Hertfordshire and Flower, Northamptonshire. His budding French and Italian scholarship, greatly encouraged by Stanley, bore fruit in his 1651 "Poems and Translations Amorous, Lusory, Morall, Divine" dedicated to Stanley. Sherburne was then enlisted as a tutor to the young Sir George Savile (later the Marquess of Halifax), and was linked at this time with

364-552: The custody of the usher of the black rod until his release in October of that year, whereupon he joined the forces of the king at Oxford. On the surrender of Oxford, in June 1646, he moved to London to live in Middle Temple with his kinsman Thomas Povey . He also asserted, in petitioning for compensation in 1661, that he 'kept the train of ordnance together, to serve as a troop in the field in

392-404: The decline of the late king's cause* and preserved the ordnance records, so that it is now restored to its primitive order and constitution'. Now living in near poverty—due to the seizure of his estate and considerable library—he obtained the acquaintance of several notable literary figures of the day, including his kinsman the author Thomas Stanley , the dramatist James Shirley , and latterly of

420-500: The early history of the United States ; these descendants included Henry Sherburne and John Sherburne . Stonyhurst College and Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall are Jesuit boarding schools with approximately 800 pupils in total, most of whom are boarders. The schools are connected by parallel footpaths through the woods, known as Brothers' Walk. The name derives from the fact that before the schools became co-educational, pupils from

448-404: The estate. Pupils from the school used to visit each cross in an annual pilgrimage to mark Palm Sunday . The Pinfold Cross is a memorial to a former servant at Stonyhurst College and fiddler, James Wells, who fell to his death in a quarry nearby on 12 February 1834. It was erected in 1834 at Stockbridge. On the front is inscribed the legend, ‘WATCH FOR YOU KNOW NOT THE DAY NOR HOUR.' Above this

476-720: The estate. Richard Sherburne built an almshouse on Longridge Fell, the predecessor of the Sherburne Almshouse, which his son Sir Nicholas built in circa 1707. The latter was dismantled in 1946 and re-erected in Hurst Green . Religious monuments in the area are a reminder of the Jesuit presence and strength of Catholicism in the locality. Most notably, the Lady Statue at the top of the Avenue connecting Stonyhurst College with Hurst Green. It

504-482: The grade one listed Stonyhurst College which is open for tours during the summer. The gardens of the college are also open to visitors and include a small shop in the meteorological station. The area is also criss-crossed with public footpaths, in particular the Tolkien Trail, a walk around some of the areas thought to have inspired the author during his stay at the college in the late 1940s. Public events hosted on

532-518: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sherburne&oldid=907548363 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Edward Sherburne Sir Edward Sherburne (18 September 1618 – 4 November 1702)

560-406: The maintenance and restoration of the buildings. There is a large mill which was once a granary but is currently used as a sawmill. The Church of St Peter is the parish church for the neighbouring village of Hurst Green . The Stonyhurst Observatory began operations in 1838, transferring to a new building in 1866. The records of temperature taken there are the oldest continual daily records in

588-505: The news of the grave illness of his father, who died in December of that year. He succeeded his father as Clerk of the Ordnance, having obtained the reversion of that office in 1637–1638. Due to his staunch royalist and Roman Catholic views, Sherburne was removed as Clerk of the Ordnance by order of the House of Lords at the outbreak of the civil war. For the following months he was prisoner in

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616-616: The steward (of the same name) of Rufford Abbey who was involved in the Penruddock uprising . On the recommendation of Savile's mother, he was then attached as tutor to John Coventry , accompanying him on an extensive trip through "All France, Italy, some Part of Hungary, the Greater Part of Germany, Holland, and the Rest of the low Countries, and Flandres, returning Home about the End of October 1659". At

644-460: The world. Today, the observatory is one of four used by the Met Office to provide temperature data for central England. The estate contains the two hamlets of Stockbridge and Woodfields, both of which are inhabited by teachers from Stonyhurst College . Hodder Place , the former site of the preparatory school is now divided into residential flats which are privately owned; the grounds remain part of

672-709: Was an English poet, translator, and royalist soldier of the seventeenth century. Edward Sherburne was born 18 September 1618 in Goldsmith Rents, Cripplegate, London, the son of another Sir Edward Sherburne (1578–1641), a civil servant and secretary of the East India Company, and his wife Frances (1588-1673), a daughter of John Stanley of Roydon Hall, Essex. His father, a descendant of the Sherburnes of Stonyhurst , had moved from Oxford to London to be employed as agent to Sir Dudley Carleton (later Viscount Dorchester); he

700-463: Was erected in 1882, and inscribed with the words "Ave Maria". Cromwell's rock is situated at the top of the Avenue, near St Peter's church graveyard. According to tradition, Cromwell stood on this inconspicuous stone and described the mansion ahead of him as "the finest half-house in England" (the symmetry of the building was, at that time, incomplete). Four old crosses stand at disparate locations around

728-742: Was known as the "Stanihurst". It passed through the Bayley family to their descendants, the Shireburns ("Sherburnes" etc), before passing into the hands of Thomas Weld (of Lulworth) . Already possessing a large estate, he donated it to the Jesuits in 1794 as a new home for their school , of which he was an old boy when it was located at Liège . A junior branch of the Sherburnes, who had earlier fled to Oxford to build and dwell in Beam Hall, subsequently emigrated to New England , where they contributed in various ways to

756-469: Was later employed as secretary to Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper) from 1617 to 1621, as secretary of the East India Company from 1621, and finally as Clerk of the Ordnance of the Tower of London from 1626. The younger Edward was tutored first under Thomas Farnaby and later Charles Alleyn, until the latter's death in 1640. Thereupon he attempted an abortive tour of France and Italy, returning in late 1641 upon

784-649: Was supported by the king, by whom he was granted a knighthood on 6 January 1682. At the time of the Glorious Revolution Sherburne was unable to swear the new oaths on grounds of his Roman Catholicism, and was forced to retire. As his petition to the then Master-General of the Ordnance the Earl of Romney went unanswered, it is likely he was supported in his final years by his cousin Sir Nicholas Sherburne of Stonyhurst Hall. He died on 4 November 1702 and

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