Tales of the Ridings by F. W. (Frederic William) Moorman
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a tribute, heartfelt and irrepressible, to the charm of a singularly
bright and winning spirit: to a life which had spent itself, without stint and without one thought of self, in the service of others. Endnotes (were footnotes): (1) To this family is believed to have belonged John Moreman, Canon and eventually Dean of Exeter (though he died, October, 1554, "before he was presented to the Deanery"), of whom an account will be found in Prince's _Worthies of Devon_ (ed. 1701, pp. 452-453), as well as in Wood's _Athenoe_ and _Fasti Oxonienses_ and Foxe's _Book of Martyrs_. He was "the first in those days to teach his parishioners to say the Lord's Prayer, the Belief and the Commandments in the English tongue" (whether the contrast is with Latin or Cornish, for he was then Vicar of Menynhed, in East Cornwall, does not appear). He was imprisoned, as a determined Catholic, in Edward VI.'s reign, but "enlarged under Queen Mary, with whom he grew into very great favour," and was chosen to defend the doctrine of Transubstantiation before the Convocation of 1553. (2) His thesis for this degree, on _The Interpretation of Nature in English Poetry from Beowulf to Shakespeare_, was published in 1905. (3) He published editions of _The Faithful Shepherdess_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_ and _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ in 1897, and an elaborately critical edition of Herrick's _Poems_, in completion of his _Study_, in 1915. He also contributed the chapter on "Shakespeare's Apocrypha" to the _Cambridge History of English Literature_; and for many years acted as English editor of the _Shakespeare Jahrbuch_. |
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