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Samuel Ayscough, the Glossary

Samuel Ayscough (1745–1804) was a librarian and indexer, who was described as the "Prince of Index Makers".^[1]

46 relations: Bishop of Chichester, British Library, British Museum, Charles I of England, Concordance (publishing), Cudham, Derbyshire, Edema, Folio, Foundling Hospital, Francis Twiss, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, James VI and I, John Bridges (topographer), John Buckner (bishop), John Caley, John Nichols (printer), John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, John Stockdale, List of lord mayors of London, Lord Mayor of London, Normanton on Soar, Nottingham, Nottingham High School, Owen Manning, Palaeography, Patent roll, Paul Henry Maty, Quarto, Record Commission, Richard Southgate (priest), Royal Society, Society of Antiquaries of London, St George's, Bloomsbury, St Giles in the Fields, St Leonard's, Shoreditch, St Paul's Churchyard, Taxatio Ecclesiastica, The Gentleman's Magazine, Thomas Birch, Thomas Fairchild (gardener), Tower of London, Typography, Wigston, William Bray (antiquary), Wirksworth.
Indexers

Bishop of Chichester

The Bishop of Chichester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the counties of East and West Sussex. The see is based in the City of Chichester where the bishop's seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Concordance (publishing)

A concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, listing every instance of each word with its immediate context.

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Cudham

Cudham is an area in Greater London, England, located within the London Borough of Bromley and beyond London's urban sprawl.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Edema

Edema (AmE), also spelled oedema (BrE), and also known as fluid retention, dropsy, hydropsy and swelling, is the build-up of fluid in the body's tissue.

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Folio

The term "folio" has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for a common method of arranging sheets of paper into book form, folding the sheet only once, and a term for a book made in this way; second, it is a general term for a sheet, leaf or page in (especially) manuscripts and old books; and third, it is an approximate term for the size of a book, and for a book of this size.

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Foundling Hospital

The Foundling Hospital (formally the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children) was a children's home in London, England, founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram.

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Francis Twiss

Francis Twiss (bapt. 1759 – 1827) was an English drama critic, known as the compiler of a concordance to William Shakespeare.

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J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur (December 31, 1735 – November 12, 1813), naturalized in New York as John Hector St.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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John Bridges (topographer)

John Bridges (1666–1724) was an English lawyer, antiquarian and topographer.

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John Buckner (bishop)

John Buckner, LL.D. (1734–1824) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of England as the Bishop of Chichester from 1797 to 1824.

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John Caley

John Caley (1760–1834) was an English archivist and antiquary.

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John Nichols (printer)

John Nichols (2 February 1745 – 26 November 1826) was an English printer, author and antiquary. Samuel Ayscough and John Nichols (printer) are 1745 births.

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John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, (4 June 1751 – 13 January 1838) was a British barrister and politician.

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John Stockdale

John Stockdale (25 March 1750Probable – Stockdale (2005) p. 117 – 21 June 1814) was an English publisher whose London shop became a salon for the political classes and who had to face two actions for defamation.

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List of lord mayors of London

This is a list of all mayors and lord mayors of London (leaders of the City of London Corporation, and first citizens of the City of London, from medieval times).

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Lord Mayor of London

The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London, England, and the leader of the City of London Corporation.

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Normanton on Soar

Normanton on Soar, formerly known as Normanton-upon-Soar and known locally as Normanton, is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England near the River Soar.

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Nottingham

Nottingham (locally) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.

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Nottingham High School

Nottingham High School is a private fee-charging day school for boys and girls in Nottingham, England, with an infant and junior school (ages 4–11) and senior school (ages 11–18).

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Owen Manning

Owen Manning (1721–1801) was an English clergyman and antiquarian, known as a historian of Surrey.

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Palaeography

Palaeography (UK) or paleography (US; ultimately from παλαιός,, 'old', and γράφειν,, 'to write') is the study and academic discipline of the analysis of historical writing systems, the historicity of manuscripts and texts, subsuming deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts, including the analysis of historic penmanship, handwriting script, signification and printed media.

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Patent roll

The patent rolls (Latin: Rotuli litterarum patentium) are a series of administrative records compiled in the English, British and United Kingdom Chancery, running from 1201 to the present day.

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Paul Henry Maty

Paul Henry Maty (1744 – 16 January 1787) was an English librarian.

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Quarto

Quarto (abbreviated Qto, 4to or 4º) is the format of a book or pamphlet produced from full sheets printed with eight pages of text, four to a side, then folded twice to produce four leaves.

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Record Commission

The Record Commissions were a series of six Royal Commissions of Great Britain and (from 1801) the United Kingdom which sat between 1800 and 1837 to inquire into the custody and public accessibility of the state archives.

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Richard Southgate (priest)

Richard Southgate (1729–1795) was an English clergyman and numismatist.

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Royal Society

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.

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Society of Antiquaries of London

The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom.

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St George's, Bloomsbury

St George's, Bloomsbury, is a parish church in Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom.

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St Giles in the Fields

St Giles in the Fields is the Anglican parish church of the St Giles district of London.

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St Leonard's, Shoreditch

St Leonard's, Shoreditch, is the old parish church of Shoreditch, often known simply as Shoreditch Church.

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St Paul's Churchyard

St Paul's Churchyard is an area immediately around St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London.

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Taxatio Ecclesiastica

The Taxatio Ecclesiastica, often referred to as the Taxatio Nicholai or just the Taxatio, compiled in 1291–92 under the order of Pope Nicholas IV, is a detailed database valuation for ecclesiastical taxation of English, Welsh, and Irish parish churches and prebends.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Ayscough

Also known as Ayscough, Samuel.

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