John Selden

This tour marks Hobbes' first recognition by philosophical contemporaries.

He was at Florence in April 1636, anxious, as he says in a letter, to read Halen's History of the Sabbath and Selden's Mare Clausum.

At this time, too, he saw Galileo, who had lately made his famous recantation and was living near Florence as a prisoner of the Inquisition.

He was admitted to the friendship of the great man, whom he mentions in his books with profound respect.

One was Harvey, 1578-1657, whose great discovery of the circulation of the blood had been first published in 1616, and of whom Hobbes always speaks with profound admiration.

Harvey is said to have left him ten pounds in his will.

The other was John Selden, 1584-1654.

Their acquaintance began by Hobbes sending him a copy of the Leviathan, after which, says Aubrey, there was a strict friendship between them.

This tour marks Hobbes's first recognition by philosophical contemporaries.

He was at Florence in April 1636, anxious, as he says in a letter, to read Halen's History of the Sabbath and Selden's Mare Clausum.

At this time too he saw Galileo, who had lately made his famous recantation and was living near Florence as a prisoner of the Inquisition.

He was admitted to the friendship of the great man, whom he mentions in his books with profound respect.

One was Harvey, 1578 to 1657, whose great discovery of the circulation of the blood had been first published in 1616, and of whom Hobbes always speaks with profound admiration.

Harvey is said to have left him ten pounds in his will.

The other was John Selden, 1584 to 1654.

Their acquaintance began by Hobbes sending him a copy of the Leviathan, after which, says Aubrey, there was a strict friendship between them.

Uh, as I said, the fate of the rest of the originals, bar the one, uh, in, in, uh, Ossory, uh, are unknown.

They were all delivered to Lambeth Palace, uh, Library at some point, and later passed into the hands of John Selden, who was an antiquarian in mid-17th century England, and he retrieved them for safekeeping during the civil war, uh, in England.

And following Selden's death, it's likely that his executor, a guy called Matthew Hall, uh, took possession of them.

Uh, Selden's contemporary, the Irish antiquarian, uh, James Ware, uh, he was just beginning his own kind of career, uh, within Irish officialdom at the time of the 1622 commission.

They also held them for a time, but after that, what happened to them is, uh, unknown.

Now, barring some exceptions, uh, such as Alan Ford and John McCafferty, who just walked in to hear his name being mentioned there.

In sixteen oh one, he joined the failed Essex Rebellion, was captured and fined, and thereafter began to assemble a circle of like-minded Catholics ready for revolt.

Catesby's early network consisted of Thomas Wintour, a former soldier with experience on the frontier, brothers John and Christopher Wright, who had fought against the Dutch in the Low Countries, and the noble Thomas Percies, whose family had deep Catholic sympathies.

Together they shared the belief that an abrupt, decisive blow could force political change.

Among those recruited was Guy Fawkes.

Although the plot itself failed, its discovery accelerated reforms that expanded parliamentary oversight of taxation and curtailed royal prerogative, principles that later shaped England's gradual shift toward a more representative system.

Consequent to the failed attempt, Catholics were driven underground, yet retained pockets of resilience, most notably the Jesuits, who continued clandestine ministry, and the network of recusants that endured until the Relief Statutes of the late eighteenth century.

Contemporary chroniclers such as John Selden recorded the proceedings in detail, noting how swiftly authorities moved and how public opinion was shaped by the stark visuals of executed conspirators displayed in Parliament Square, a vivid illustration of early modern state power.

Every November, effigies of Guy Fawkes are carved, flamed, and flung, yet scholars caution that such ritual glosses over the complex political and social dynamics behind a single act of violence that could have reshaped the nation.

This multiplicity of interpretations underscores how a single event can illuminate the complex mechanics of early modern political life.

Primary sources such as the court minutes from the trial, the letters of Sir Robert Carr, Anne Turner's own confession, and contemporary chronicles like those by John Selden offer divergent viewpoints that must be carefully triangulated.

The recorded testimonies reveal inconsistencies.

For example, Anne Turner claimed she only supplied medicine while other witnesses assert a more direct role in poisoning.

This tour marks Hobbes' first recognition by philosophical contemporaries.

He was at Florence in April 1636, anxious, as he says in a letter, to read Halen's History of the Sabbath and Selden's Mare Clausum.

At this time, too, he saw Galileo, who had lately made his famous recantation and was living near Florence as a prisoner of the Inquisition.

He was admitted to the friendship of the great man, whom he mentions in his books with profound respect.

One was Harvey, 1578-1657, whose great discovery of the circulation of the blood had been first published in 1616, and of whom Hobbes always speaks with profound admiration.

Harvey is said to have left him ten pounds in his will.

The other was John Selden, 1584-1654.

Their acquaintance began by Hobbes sending him a copy of the Leviathan, after which, says Aubrey, there was a strict friendship between them.

This shows you how people don't see Hashem's hand always on us all the time.

John Selden, who impacted English common law, he wrote a book called Desenadrus.

Desenadrus is the Latin word for Sanhedrin, and it's where we get the word Senate.

And he and other thinkers of that time It's a big span of time.

And fifteen who were already in Sienti before leaving England, and which even the most censorious can hardly lay to the charge of the B.E.F., and of all that six thousand what percentage do you suppose has had to be sent back for what is euphemistically known i believe as getting into trouble since landing in france no percentage at all if i may express myself thus unmathematically but exactly five cases five out of six thousand compare that with the morality of any village in england or anywhere else in the world and then say if you dare to be so obviously dishonest that there is any reason why the women's army should be aspersed these statistics were given to me at the office of the area controller and later repeated at the women's army h q by the controller in chief but on that first sunny morning amongst the pines and pale golden sand dunes it was naturally the human and individual side rather than any of figures however startling that claimed the mind the most for one thing i had the actual organization and attributes of the women's army to learn i knew nothing the actual working knowledge apart from impressions and things learnt only by seeing them that i gathered during the days i spent at various wax centers is as follows the women's army differs from the fany and the v a d in being a paid instead of a volunteer body in being directly under the army not the red cross and in its members being ranked as privates but it also differs from the g s v a d though that too is paid and its members rank as privates the g s v a d is far more mixed its members are of all classes and educations and are drafted off for work accordingly but the bulk of the wax are working girls and do manual labor such as gardening cooking baking scrubbing etc though there are amongst them girls of a more specialized education who are signalers and clerks the officers of course are women of education who have undergone a stiff training and have been carefully selected for the post they fill for as will be seen nearly everything depends upon whack officers they have certainly a greater power for good or harm than the officers of the regular army and never were both the force and danger of personality more acutely illustrated than in the position of the whack leaders a unit administrator has to know individually every girl in her camp though there may be several hundreds she has to blend with her absolute authority a maternal interest and supervision while she has no power to say whom a girl shall or shall not walk out with yet she makes it her business to know what choice of men friends the girl makes and to influence as far as she can that choice towards discretion she must not nag but must inculcate by subtle methods a realization of what is due to the uniform a sense of the idea the symbol of it she does not actually say to a girl that she is not to walk arm in arm with a tommy or pin her collar with her paste brooch but she conveys to her that these things are not done in the best uniforms and the girl learns with incredible rapidity a thing is not done what a potency in those words in that attitude of mind it probably influenced the earliest savages in the manner of wearing their cowries After all, the whole idea of uniform, of distinguishing one cast from another by bits of different colored cloth, is based on the instinct for being superior.

Was it not John Selden who said something to the effect, that our rulers have always tried to make themselves as different from us as possible? Of course they have, and it is exactly the same thing which the wise Pope Gregory VII had in mind when he definitely crystallized the measures for celibacy of the priesthood, and it is exactly the same thing which puts the policeman into a dark blue uniform and a helmet before he can so much as stop a milk cart.

A policeman in plain clothes is a dethroned monarch.

nothing in the nature of controlling others was ever done without dressing up the marvel is that for so many centuries the principle should have been confined to the masculine sex when it had such an obvious appeal to the feminine This principle, when carried a step further, and applied to those controlled, by giving them the sensation of being different from the rest of the world, results in that spirit called esprit de corps, which is really the esprit de la uniforme.