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ERSKINE. HENRY (1746-1817), lord advocate of Scotland, the second son of Henry David, loth earl of Buchan and brother of the lord chancellor Erskine, was born in Edinburgh on the ist of November 1746. He was educated at the universities of St Andrews, Glasgow ...

ERSKINE. JOHN (1721-1803), Scottish divine, son. of John Erskine of Carnock, was born on the 2nd of June 1721. He studied law for a time after completing his course in arts at the university of Edinburgh, but was eventually licensed to preach in 1743; and was ...

ERSKINE, EBENEZER (1680-1754), Scottish divine, the chief founder of the Secession Church (formed of dissenters from the Church of Scotland), was born on the 22nd of June 1680, most probably at Dryburgh, Berwickshire. His father, Henry Erskine, who was at one ...

HENRY ARUNDELL, 3rd Baron Arundell of Wardour (c. 16071694), son of Thomas, 2nd baron, and of Blanche, daughter of Edward, earl of Worcester, was born on the 2ist of July 1607, and succeeded on his father's death in 1643 to the family title and estates. A stro ...

... of his term. It was a writ of trespass, and carried damages, but in the time of Henry VII., if not before that date, the courts of common law added thereto a species of remedy neither warranted by the original writ nor demanded by the declaration, viz. a judgm ...

... lowing year, commended him to the care and favour of his brother and successor, Henry III., who faithfully fulfilled the charge. His mother married Francois de Balzac, marquis d'Entragues, and one of her daughters, Henriette, marchioness of Verneuil, afterward ...

... Though outwardly on good terms with James, he treacherously made a treaty with Henry VII. about 1489 or 1491, by which he undertook to govern his relations with James according to instructions from England, and to hand over Hermitage Castle, commanding the pa ...

... alt. Bernard died in 1212, and Anhalt, separated from Saxony, passed to his son Henry, who in 1218 took the title of prince and was the real founder of the house of Anhalt. On Henry's death in 1252 his three sons partitioned the principality and founded respec ...

... with the ligh-priest at Jerusalem," "the perfection of the art." His medals of Henry II. of France and Pope Paul III. are greatly valued.

... nvolved. Undeterred by the fact that the leading spirit in these abuses, Bethel Henry Strousberg (1823-1884), was a Jew, Lasker presented the results of his inquiry to the diet on the 7th of February 1873, in a speech of great power and full of sensational dis ...

... llous weak and narrow understanding." He married secondly Rose, daughter of Sir Henry O'Neill, but had no children, being succeeded in the earldom by his brother Alexander, 3rd earl of Antrim. See Hibernia Anglicana, by R. Cox (1689-1690) esp. app. xlix. vol. ...

... peals rather to the atonement as deeper neglected truth. So in Scotland, Thomas Erskine and Thomas Chalmers — the latter in contradiction t3 his earlier position — hold that the doctrine of salvation, when translated into experience, furnishes " internal evide ...

... dicunt apostolicam vitam ducere." It is possible that they were Henricians (see HENRY OF LAUSANNE). During his mission in the south-east of France in 1 146-1 147 St Bernard still met disciples of Henry of Lausanne in the environs of Perigueux. The heretics of ...

... es of the medical profession were not regularly distinguished till the reign of Henry VIII., when separate duties were assigned to them, and peculiar privileges were granted to each. In 1518 the physicians of London were incorporated, and the barbersurgeons in ...

... uits in favour of the League, and was thus able to secure solid advantages when Henry IV. overcame the confederacy. To him is due the Jesuit system of education in the book Ratio atque institutio studiorum (Rome, 1586). But the Dominicans denounced it to the I ...

... t as her dowry. When Eleanor was divorced from Louis and was married in 1152 to Henry II. of England the duchy passed to her new husband, who, having suppressed a revolt there, gave it to his son Richard. When Richard died in 1199, it reverted to Eleanor, and ...

... After the extensive transfers of property on the seizure of the church lands by Henry VIII., much timber was sold by the new owners, and the quantity thus thrown into the market so lowered its price, as Hollingshed informs us, that the builders of cottages, wh ...

... Liszt, does not seem to be traced to an earlier source than its edition by Sir Henry Bishop, which has possibly the same kind of origin in Arcadelt as the hymn tune " Palestrina " has in the delicate and subtle Gloria of Palestrina's Magnificat Quinli Toni, t ...

... ents for the express purpose of illustrating prehistoric man, was recognized by Henry Christy (1810-1865), who had made extensive investigations and collected relics in conjunction with Edouard Lartet in the now famous caverns of the Dordogne, at a time when s ...

... Though outwardly on good terms with James, he treacherously made a treaty with Henry VII. about 1489 or 1491, by which he undertook to govern his relations with James according to instructions from England, and to hand over Hermitage Castle, commanding the pa ...

... ntury occupies the site of an older one in which Diana of Poitiers, mistress of Henry II., resided. The only other building of interest is the church, which dates from the isth century. In front of it there is a statue of Danton, a native of the town. Arcis-su ...

... of oxygen present and assuming the remainder to be nitrogen. Since the time of Henry Cavendish no one seemed even to have asked the question whether the residue was, in truth, all capable of conversion into nitric acid. The manner in which this condition of c ...

... daughter of Bishop Claughton of St Albans (d. 1894); and thirdly (1895) to Ina Erskine M'Neill. Few men of the duke's era displayed more versatility of intellect, and he was remarkable among the men of his time for his lofty eloquence. He was succeeded as 9th ...

... rations for the subsequent books common to the two treatises. It is true, as Dr Henry Jackson has pointed out, though with some exaggeration, that the Eudemian agrees in detail rather better than the Nicomachean treatment of the voluntary with the subsequent d ...

... at Plymouth with the lord high admiral. The others were in the Downs with Lord Henry Seymour and Sir William Winter, to co-operate with a Dutch squadron under Justinus of Nassau in blockading the Flemish ports, then occupied by the Spanish army of the duke of ...

... he incessant defeats sustained by the English until the accession of their king Henry V. At that moment Count Bernard VII. was all-powerful at the French court; and Charles of Orleans, in order to be able to avenge his father, Louis of Orleans, who had been as ...

ARMSTEAD, HENRY HUGH (1828-1905), English sculptor, was first trained as a silversmith, and achieved the highest excellence with the " St George's Vase " and the " Outram Shield." He rose to the front rank among contemporary sculptors, his chief works being th ...

... uous, insolent and mischievous, excited foolish jealousies between the king and Henry, prince of Wales, and was much disliked by the members of the court. In 1623 he accompanied Prince Charles and Buckingham in their adventure into Spain, where he was much car ...

... t the Jesuits in 1594, accusing them of gross disloyalty to the newly converted Henry IV. This speech was afterwards known as the original sin of the Arnaulds. Of his twenty children several grew up to fight the Jesuits on more important matters. Five gave the ...

... eption had been immortalized for Englishmen more than half a century earlier by Henry Purcell. Arne's individuality of style first distinctly asserted itself in the music to Dr Dalton's adaptation of Milton's Comus, which was performed at Drury Lane in 1738, a ...

... Arson was deprived of " benefit of clergy " under the Tudors, while an act of 8 Henry VI. c. 6 (1429) made the wilful burning of houses, under particular circumstances, high treason, but acts of i Ed. VI. c. 12 (1547) and i Mary (1533) reduced it to an ordinar ...

... t family of Arundells of Lanhernc in Cornwall, and of Margaret, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, was born about 1562. In 1579 he was personally recommended by Queen Elizabeth to the emperor Rudolph II. He greatly distinguished himself while serving with the i ...

... llion. Aske went under the guarantee of a safe-conduct and was well received by Henry. He put in writing a full account of the rising and of his own share in it; and, fully persuaded of the king's good intentions, returned home on the 8th of January 1537, brin ...

... any honest allegation." She had as good a reason for repudiating her husband as Henry VIII. for repudiating Anne of Clcves. In any case, she came to London and made friends with Joan Bocher, who was already known for heterodoxy, and other Protestants. She was ...

... among the possessions of Countess Godiva, the widow of Leofric. In the reign of Henry III. it passed to the monks of Bee in Normandv, who in 1246 obtained the grant of an annual fair at the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin, and the next year of a market eve ...

... ey love to record the prowess of the kings and their court*. Thu* it if told of Henry V. thmt he " was to twift a runner that he and two of hit lords, without bow or other engine, would take a wild buck in a large park." Several romance* of the middle age*, qu ...

... emorial hospital (opened in 1892), supported by the city and named in honour of Henry W. Grady; the Presbyterian hospital: the Baptist Tabernacle Infirmary; the Wesley Memorial hospital; St Joseph's infirmary; the Municipal hospital for contagious diseases; th ...

... han to prevent a sacrifice of the property under a given price. By a charter of Henry VII., confirmed by Charles I., the business of selling by auction was confined to an officer called an outroper, and all other persons were prohibited from selling goods or m ...

... Audley of Walden; and soon afterwards presided as lord steward at the trials of Henry Pole, Lord Montacute, and of the unfortunate marquess of Exeter. In 1539, though inclining himself to the Reformation, he made himself the king's instrument in enforcing reli ...

... oire des insectes nuisibles a la vigne (1842), was completed after his death by Henry MilneEdwards and Emile Blanchard. His papers mostly appeared in the Annales des sciences naturelles, which, with A. T. Brongniart and J. B. A. Dumas, he founded in 1824, and ...