Darién Scheme
Darién Scheme Scottish project to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama (Darién). In 1695, the Scottish Parliament passed an act that chartered a company for trading with Africa and the Indies. William Paterson directed the first efforts of the company to found a colony on the Isthmus of Panama to compete with the Dutch and Spanish for trade. Stock was subscribed in England and Scotland, but opposition by the English government and by the East India Company caused English investors to withdraw. The company's two expeditions (1698, 1699) failed because of poor leadership and equipment, disease, and the hostility of the Spanish; many lives were lost. The failure, with its immense losses to Scottish investors, vividly demonstrated Scotland's commercial disadvantage outside the British realm. By the terms of the Act of Union with England (1707), Scotland secured equality in trade. Investors in the Darién venture were partially indemnified for their losses.
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Beginning and Discoveries. Polydore Vergil's De inventoribus rerum. An Unabridged Translation and Edition with Introduction, Notes and Glossary by Beno Weiss and Louis C. Perez.(Italian Bookshelf)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Annali d'Italianistica; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Beginning and Discoveries. Polydore Vergil's De inventoribus rerum. An Unabridged Translation and Edition with Introduction, Notes and Glossary by Beno Weiss and Louis...
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On Discovery
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 10/1/2002; ; 334 words
; On Discovery, by Polydore Vergil. This is the latest volume in...I Tatti Renaissance Library. Polydore Vergil, who was born in Urbino, flourished...instruments? "They say," Polydore Vergil writes, that Mercury, son of...
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Jane Shore and the politics of cursing.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...ruler was well underway. In 1506, Polydore Vergil began his Anglica Historia at the...Henry VII. Denys Hay says that Vergil's "implicit purpose" in writing...of Tudor." (5) To that end, Vergil depicts Richard III, the last king...
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The uses of Richard III: from Robert Cecil to Richard Nixon.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Bulletin; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...his History of King Richard the Thirde (1513) and Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia (1534). Edward Hall (1548) and Raphael Holinshed (1587) both drew on More and Vergil, perpetuating Richard's reputation as an ugly, scheming...
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Further relics of the `Once and Future King' Arthurian Notes
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/21/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Romans. These feats seemed credible enough until in 1552 Polydore Vergil, historian at the court of Henry VIII, pointed out...their credibility. Yet there is a simple answer to Vergil's conundrum. The Brut Tysylio was probably written...
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Levy, F. J. Tudor Historical Thought.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...helped lead to a rise in antiquarianism and the pursuit of a uniquely English history. The new chroniclers, such as Polydore Vergil, Hall, Holinshed, and Stow, enjoined rulers and their subjects to greater virtue and constructed for them a more...
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Richard III: Tonypandy in the Twentieth Century
Magazine article from: Literature/Film Quarterly; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...spider," "foul devil," "fouler toad." We also know today that Shakespeare based his portrait on the works of Polydore Vergil, Sir Thomas More, Edward Hall, and Raphael Holinshed: Tudor chroniclers who had their motives for blackening the...
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Obituary: Professor Denys Hay
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/21/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...of them was without some publication of note. Hay's earlier work on the Renaissance historian and man of letters Polydore Vergil was completed with an edition of the Anglica Historica (1950) and a definitive study of the man and his work (1952...
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A strange and unquenchable people
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 5/8/2007; 700+ words
; ...people, which all differ among themselves, either in tongue, either in manners, or else in laws and ordinances. Polydore Vergil, 1535 The language found in the extreme part of Cornwall is not English, but British. John de Grandisson, 1328...
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The rise and fall of Thomas Wolsey: Russel Tarr considers key issues from the life of the famous cardinal. (Profiles in Power).
Magazine article from: History Review; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...who enjoyed the fine things of life. He was sociable, witty and convivial, a sponsor of musicians and artists. Polydore Vergil, the Tudor historian, gives us a glimpse into his tactics when he tells us that whenever the Cardinal wanted something...
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Polydore Vergil
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Polydore Vergil 1470?-1555?, historian and humanist, b. Urbino, Italy. He studied...In 1515 he was briefly imprisoned for his criticism of Thomas Wolsey. Vergil remained largely aloof from the religious controversies of the time...
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Vergil, Polydore
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Vergil, Polydore (?1470–?1555), a native of Urbino, who came to England in 1502; he was archdeacon of Wells 1508–...
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Polydore Virgil
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Polydore Virgil see Vergil, Polydore .
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Henry VII
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...There are descriptions by foreign diplomats and by Polydore Vergil, who knew him in later years. It is more that people...condescensions. ‘His appearance’, wrote Vergil, ‘was remarkably attractive and his face...
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‘Brutus’
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...its popularity and ‘Brutus’ ran and ran. Tudor historians deeply resented the suggestion of Polydore Vergil (a foreigner) that the story was not very likely as a slur upon the nation. The myth had important political consequences...
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