In 1643 John Ellis was born to Reverend John Ellis [aged 37].
In 1681 [his father] Reverend John Ellis [aged 75] died.
In 1696 [his brother] Bishop Welbore Ellis [aged 45] was appointed Prebendary of Winchester.
Before 26th June 1707 [his brother] Bishop Welbore Ellis [aged 56] and [his sister-in-law] Diana Briscoe were married.
In 1734 John Ellis [aged 91] and Elizabeth Stanhope were married.
On 1st January 1734 [his brother] Bishop Welbore Ellis [aged 83] died. He was buried at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin [Map].
In 1738 John Ellis [aged 95] died. His nephew Welbore Ellis 1st Baron Mendip [aged 24] inherited his considerable fortune.
In November 1747 [his nephew] Welbore Ellis 1st Baron Mendip [aged 33] and [his former wife] Elizabeth Stanhope were married.
In August 1761 [his former wife] Elizabeth Stanhope died.
Sober Advice from Horace Page 5. But here's his point; A Wench (he cries) for me!
"I never touch a Dame of Quality.
To P [...]l [...]r's Bed no Actress comes amiss,
He courts the whole Personae Dramatis:
He too can say, "With Wives I never sin."
But Singing-Girls and Mimicks draw him in.
Sure, worthy Sir, the Diff'rence is not great,
With whom you lose your Credit and Estate?
This, or that Person, what avails to shun?
What's wrong is wrong, wherever it be done:
The Ease, Support, and Lustre of your Life,
Destroy'd alike with Strumpet, Maid, or Wife.
What push'd poor E[...]s on th' Imperial Whore?
'Twas but to be where CHARLES had been before.
The fatal Steel unjustly was apply'd,
When not his Lust offended, but his Pride:
Too hard a Penance for defeated Sin,
Himself shut out, and Jacob Hall let in.
Suppose that honest Part that rules us all,
Should rise, and say-"Sir Robert! or Sir Paul!
The Affairs of State Volume 3 The Session of the Poets. 36. Ellis in great Discontent went away,
Whilft D'Avenant against Apollo did rage
Because he declar'd the Secrets a Play,
Fitting for none but a Mountebank Stage.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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The Affairs of State Volume 3 The Town Life. Warwick, North, Paget, Hinton, Martin, Willis,
And that Eqitome of Lewdness, Ellys:
I'll not turn that way, but obferve the Play
Pox, 'tis a tragick Farce of Banks to Day:
Besides, some Irish Wits the Pit invade
With a worse Din than Cat-call Serenade.
I must be gone, let's to Hide-Park repair,
If not good Company, we'll find good Air.
Here with affected Bow and Side-Glass look,
The self-conceited Fool is eas'ly took.
There comes a Spark with fix inTarsels drest,
Charming the Ladies Hearts with dint of Beast
Like Scullers on the Themes with frequent Bow,
They labour, tug, and in their Coaches row;
To meet some fair one, still they wheel about, Till he retires, and then they hurry out.