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# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/K'ang Hsi

​941 K'ang Hsi 康熙. A.D. 1655-1723. The title of the reign of 玄燡 Hsüan-i, the third son of the Emperor Shun Chih. He succeeded to the throne when he was only eight years of age, and six years later he took up the reins of government. Fairly tall and well proportioned, he loved all manly exercises and devoted three months annually to hunting. Large bright eyes lighted up his face, which was pitted with smallpox. Contemporary observers vie in praising his wit, understanding, and liberality of mind. Indefatigable in government, he kept a careful watch on his Ministers, his love for the people leading him to prefer economy to taxation. He was personally frugal, yet on public works he would lavish large sums. His piety towards his grandmother endeared him to the Chinese; and his affability to foreigners, although he deemed foreign trade undesirable, won the good will of Europeans. He was hardly of age when the Three Feudatories rebelled; but though in 1675 only Chihli, Honan, and Shantung were leftin his peaceable possession, he never despaired. In 1681 his rule was re-established over China, and two years later over Formosa. His punitive expeditions against Galdan and Ts'ê Wang Arabtan carried the frontiers of the empire to the borders of Kokand and Badakshan and to the confines of Tibet. In 1679 the first treaty with Russia was made, and nine years later he firmly checked an attempt by his new allies at encroachment. He patronised the Jesuits whom he employed in surveying the empire, in astronomy, and in casting cannon; though latterly he found it necessary to impose restrictions on their propagandism. In 1677 the East India Company established ​an agency at Amoy, which though withdrawn in 1681 was re-established in 1685. His literary enterprise alone would suffice to render him illustrious. Daring his reign, and almost under his personal supervision, the following works were produced: — The great Imperial Dictionary containing 40,000 characters; the vast Concordance to all literature, known as the 佩文韻府; twoextensive Encyclopædias, the 淵監類函 and the 古今圖書集成, the latter of which fills 1628 volumes 8vo and is profusely illustrated; and the 駢字類編, a kind of Gradus toaid in literary composition. He had also begun the 子史精華, a collection of elegant extracts from the historical and philosophical writers, and the 分類字錦, a collection of selected phrases from renowned masterpieces. His own writings are considerable. In the 庭訓格言, which purports to be his familiar sayings jotted down by his son, the aged Emperor depicts his own character; and though a justifiable vanity and sense of his own importance are discernible, a very kingly character it is. Canonised as 聖祖仁皇帝.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Huang Ti

​871 Huang Ti 黃帝. The Yellow Emperor, one of the most famous of China's legendary rulers. He is said to have reigned B.C. 2698— 2598, and to have been miraculously conceived by his mother 附寶 Fu Pao, who gave birth to him on the banks of the river 姬 Chi, from which he took his surname. His personal name was 有熊 Yu-hsiung, taken from that of his hereditary Principality; and also 軒轅 Hsien-yüan, said by some to be the name of a village near which he dwelt, by others to refer to wheeled vehicles of which he was the inventor, as well as of armour, ships, pottery, and other useful appliances. The close of his long reign was made glorious by the appearance of the phoenix and the mysterious animal known as the ch'i lin (see K'ung Ch'iu), in token of his wise and humane administration. He died at the age of 111 years.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Fêng Tao

​573 Fêng Tao 馮道 (T. 可道). A.D. 881-954. A native of 瀛 Ying-chou in modern Chihli, who has been credited by some with the invention of block-printing. Entering the service of Liu Shou-kuang and later on of 張承業 Chang Ch'êng-yeh, he was recommended by the latter to the Prince of Chin and received a post in modern Shansi. When the second Prince of Chin mounted the throne as first Emperor of the Later T'ang dynasty, A.D. 923, Fêng Tao was appointed secretary in the Board of Revenue and member of the Han-lin College. The second Emperor, whom he served for ten years, raised him to still higher rank; yet when in the following reign 從珂 Ts'ung K'o rebelled and subsequently entered the capital, Fêng Tao quietly took service under him. And when Shih Ching-t'ang crushed Ts'ung K'o and founded the Later Chin dynasty, Fêng Tao once more entered the service of his old masters. When the Kitans put an end to the Chin dynasty, Fêng Tao presented himself at the Court of Yeh-lü Tê-kuang, second sovereign of the ​Liao dynasty, and positively asked for a post. He said he had no home, no army, and very little brains; a statement which appears to have appealed forcibly to the Tartar monarch, who at once appointed him Grand Tutor to the Heir Apparent. This did not prevent him from quitting his new patrons at the earliest opportunity, and entering the service of the successful founder of the Later Han dynasty, A.D. 947. And again when the Hans went down before the Later Chou dynasty, Fêng Tao once more ranged himself on the side of victory and success, receiving a high post as a reward for the transfer of his services. Thus he served first and last under no less than ten sovereigns of four different Houses. He gave to himself the sobriquet of 長樂老, which finds its best equivalent in the "Vicar of Bray." Also known as 馮瀛王.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/K'ung Ch'i

​1041 K'ung Ch'i 孔祈. Son of K'ung Mu-chin, and great-great grandfather of Confucius. His tablet stands in the Confucian Temple among ancestors glorified as sages. His name is variously given as 臯夷 and 睾夷.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Fêng Po

​572 Fêng Po 風伯 or 風神 or 風師. The God of the Winds, also known as 飛廉 Fei Lien. Said by some to be identical with the constellation 箕 Sagittarius; by others to be a supernatural bird; by others again to have the body of a deer, the head of a bird (with horns), the tail of a serpent, and the spots of a leopard. A statue of this being was cast in bronze by the Emperor Wu Ti of the Han dynasty.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/K'ung Fang-shu

​1044 K'ung Fang-shu 孔防叔. Son of K'ung Ch'i, and great grandfather of Confucius. In order to escape the enmity of the descendants of Hua Tu (see K'ung Ch'i), he fled to and settled in the State of Lu, where he became Magistrate of Fang. Hence his name. His tablet stands in the Confucian Temple among ancestors glorified as sages.
# A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Fêng Pao

​571 Fêng Pao 馮保. Died A.D.? 1582. A native of Shên-chou in Chihli, and the eunuch ally of Chang Chü-chêng whom he helped to supplant Kao Kung. On the death of the Emperor Mu Tsung in A.D. 1572, Fêng forged a Decree associating himself with the Regents. He established his power over the Emperor Shên Tsung by reporting his boyish freaks to the stern old Dowager, who never failed to rate her sovereign. By the end of 1580 Fêng had ​driven out all his rivals, and ruled the Emperor, who spoke of him as his "colleague," with a rod of iron. He and Chang together defied all attempts to displace them; but the death of the Dowager and of Chang, coupled with the Emperor's growing experience of government, weakened Fêng's position, and in 1582, by the machinations of two rival eunuchs, he was degraded to be Groom of the Imperial Stud at Nanking, where he died.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Kirby (George)

​KIRBY (GEORGE), (?) bookseller in London, 1642. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Organs Funeral, 1642.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Joyce (George)

​JOYCE (GEORGE), bookseller in London; Westminster Hall, 1662. Advertisement of patent medicine in the Kingdoms Intelligencer for that year.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Keynton (Matthew)

​KEYNTON (MATTHEW), bookseller in London; Fountain in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1656. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled: Stephens (Nath.) Plain and Easie calculation, 1659. [Harl. 5965 (158).]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Kingston, or Kyngston (Felix)

​KINGSTON, or KYNGSTON (FELIX), printer in London, (1) Over against the sign of the checker, Paternoster Row, 1603 [Sayle, p. 604]; (2) In Pater-Noster-Row, at the Signe of the Gilded Cock, 1644. 1597-1651. Son of John Kingston, printer, 1553-84. Originally a member of the Company of Grocers, from which he was transferred to the Company of Stationers and admitted a freeman June 25th, 1597. [Arber, ii. 718.] According to Sir John Lambe's notes he succeeded his father in 1615, in ​which year he had two presses. [Arber, iii. 699.] In 1618, in company with Matthew Lownes and Bartholomew Downes, Felix Kingston was appointed by Privy Seal one of the King's Printers in Ireland. He also held a share in the Latin stock, in which he was one of the second rank, but only paid £35 out of the £50 due him, and subsequently withdrew from the venture. [Library, July, 1907, p. 290 et seq.] Master of the Company of Stationers, 1635-6. One of the twenty printers appointed under the Act of 1637. Mr. Sayle states that he used five devices before 1640. At the time of his death he must have been one of the oldest printers in London. For a list of books printed by him the reader is referred to Gray's Index to Hazlitt, p. 425. In the will of John Reeve, of Teddington, co. Middlesex, husbandman, proved on December 24th, 1621, several bequests are made to a Felix Kingston and other persons of the name of Kingston, but there is no evidence that they refer to the printer. [P.C.C. 89 Savile.] The second imprint given above occurs in Richard Bernard's Thesaurus Biblicus seu Promptuarium Sacrum, 1644.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Jordan (Tobias)

​JORDAN (TOBIAS), bookseller in Gloucester, 1644-64. Sheriff of Gloucester in 1644 and Mayor in 1659. [Bibl. Glouc, pp. liii, clvi.] His name is found on a broadside entitled A Perfect and most useful table to compute the year of our Lord, 1656, which was to be sold in London at the shop of Master Michell in Westminster Hall. [B.M. 669, f. 20 (32).] On September 13th, 1664, a warrant was issued to certain Aldermen of Gloucester to search his house for seditious books and papers. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol 102, 51.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Kels (R.)

​KELS (R.), (?) bookseller in London, 1653. Only known from the imprint to a broadside entitled Lillies Banquet, or the star gazer's feast. London: Printed for R. Kels, 1653.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Kemm ( )

​KEMM, bookseller in London; Duck Lane, 1653. Smyth in his Obituary, p. 34, under date May 17th, 1653, has the following entry: "Mr. Kemm, bookseller in Duck Lane, died." This may refer to Andrew Kembe.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Kembe (Andrew)

​KEMBE (ANDREW), bookseller in London, (1) By St. Margaret's Hill in long Southwarke, 1636; (2) St. Margaret's Hill in Southwark, 1642; (3) St. Margarets Hill, near the Talbot in Southwark. 1635-64. Took up his freedom June 7th, 1631. [Arber, iii. 686.] Under the year 1653, May 17th, Smyth records the death of "Mr. Kemm bookseller in Duck Lane." [Obituary, p. 34.] No books with a Duck Lane imprint and bearing Andrew Kembe's name have been found, but if the entry relates to him then the above list of imprints must be revised, and those books dated after 1653 must be held to have been published by his successor, possibly a son. A list of eight books published by Andrew Kembe in 1664 is given at the end of Palladine of England, 1664. [B.M. 12450, d. 7.]
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Jones ( )

​JONES, bookseller at Worcester, 1663. Mentioned in an advertisement of patent medicines in The Intelligencer and Newes of that year.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Kendal (G.)

​KENDAL (G.), bookseller (?) in London; near the Old Bayly, 1663. Only known from the imprint to a pamphlet entitled Merry Newes from Epsom Wells, 1663. [Hazlitt, iii. 242.]
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Conti, Princess de

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CONTI, PRINCESS DE,
Whose maiden name was Mademoiselle de Blois, was the daughter of Louis the Fourteenth, and Louise de la Valliére. She married Louis Armand de Bourbon, Prince de Conti, brother of the prince who was chosen King of Poland. Louis Armand died of small pox. The princess was equally celebrated for her wit and wonderful beauty. Muley Ismael, King of Morocco, happening to see her portrait, fell in love with her, and sent an ambassador to demand her hand. Another likeness of this princess inspired the son of the Viceroy of Lima with a violent passion; and one of these pictures having been lost in India, was found by the natives, who worshipped it as the image of the goddess Monas. The princess was a protectress of literary men. She died at the commencement of the eighteenth century.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Constance

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CONSTANCE,
Daughter of Conan, Duke of Brittany, wife of Geoffrey Plantagenet, son of Henry the Second, King of England. She was contracted to him while they were both in the cradle, and, by her right, Grcoffrey became Duke of Brittany. By him she had two children, Eleanor, called the Maid of Brittany, and Arthur, who was born after the death of his father. She afterwards married Ralph Blundeville, Earl of Chester, who suspected her of an intrigue with John of England, his most bitter enemy. He obtained a divorce, and Constance married Guy, brother of the Viscount de Thouars. She had by him a daughter Alix, whom the Bretons, on the refusal of John to set free her elder sister, elected for their sovereign. The King of France and Richard Cœur de Lion, King of England, both claimed Brittany as a fief. Constance, to keep It in her own name, fomented divisions between the two sovereigns. On the death of Richard, it was found that he had left the kingdom to his brother John, instead of his nephew Arthur, to whom it rightfully belonged. Constance resented this injustice, and being a woman of judgment and courage, might have reinstated her son in his rights, if she had not died before she had opportunity of asserting his claims. Her death occurred in 1202.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Contat, Louise

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CONTAT, LOUISE,
(By marriage, Madame de Pamy, but known on the stage by her maiden name,) was born at Paris, in 1760, made her début as Atahde, in Bajazet, at the Theatre Français, in 1776, but afterwards devoted her brilliant endowments entirely to comedy. She possessed ​great versatility of talent, and united beauty, grace, ease, and archness, with dignity, tenderness, delicacy, and judgment. She restored to the stage the masterpieces of Moliere, which had long been neglected by the public. After a theatrical career of thirty-two years, most of which were a continual series of triumphs, Madame de Pamy retired from the stage in 1808, and became the centre of a brilliant circle of friends, in which she was remarkable for her powers of conversation. A few weeks before her death, she threw into the fire a large collection of anecdotes and other of her writings, in prose and verse, because they contained some strokes of personal satire. She died in 1813. M. Arnault owed his liberty and life, in 1792, to her interference in his favour, at the risk of her own life.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Contarini, Gabriello Catterina

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CONTARINI, GABRIELLO CATTERINA,
Of Agolfio. No exact date of her birth is to be procured; that she lived towards the end of the fifteenth century is indubitable. She possessed a very fertile vein of poetic fancy. Her poetry manifests natural felicity in composing, as well as considerable erudition. She was distinguished for her pleasing manners and solid virtues. Her works are, "Life of St. Francesco," a poem; "Life of St. Waldo," a poem; five odes, seven canzonets, and some occasional poems.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Coppoli, Elena or Cecilia

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COPPOLI, ELENA or CECILIA,
Of Perugia, born 1425, died 1500. This learned woman was the daughter of Francesco Coppoli. In the twenty- seventh year of her age she entered the religious house of Santa Lucia, and became a member of the sisterhood. She was an intimate friend of the famous Porcellio, who addressed many Latin poems to her. She was not only mistress of the Greek and Latin, but well acquainted with elegant literature. She has left some Latin poems, "Ascetic Letters," a manuscript life of a certain sister Eustachia of Messina, and a "History of the Monastery of St Lucia."
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Cooper, Miss

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COOPER, MISS,
Daughter of the distinguished novelist, J. Fennimore Cooper, has written a work of rare merit, entitled "Rural Hours; by a Lady," published in 1850. It is a journal of daily life, commencing with the spring of 1848, and ending with the spring of 1849. The scenery described so charmingly, is that surrounding her own fair home in Cooperstown. Out of these simple materials Miss Cooper has formed one of the most interesting volumes of the day, displaying powers of mind of a high order. This path of literature is peculiarly appropriate for the female sex and a new country. Beautified as these scenes from common life may be by the touch of genius and the soul of piety, we are taught how fair is the world we live in, when viewed in the gentle spirit of love, hope, and faith.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Corbaux, Fanny

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CORBAUX, FANNY.
Was born in the year 1812; her father was an Englishman, although he resided much abroad; he was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and published several mathematical and statistical works, which gained for him a high place in the estimation of scientific men. Fanny early manifested a love for the fine arts, and when, she being but fifteen years of age, her father's circumstances became much reduced, and his mind and body enfeebled by ill health, she turned her attention entirely to painting as a means of support for herself and parent. Of her almost unaided struggles, her devotion to her chosen art, her perseverance, much might be said; but let it suffice that in 1827 she received the first public recognition of her merit in the large silver medal of the Society of Arts, for an original portrait in miniature; the Isis medal for a copy of figures in water-colours; and the silver palette for a copy of an engraving. In the following year she again obtained the silver Isis medal, and in 1830, the Society's highest award—the gold medal, for a miniature portrait. Thenceforward her success as a portrait-painter has been rapid and steady, and to this branch of art she as chiefly devoted herself, more, perhaps, from necessity than choice; for she has a vigorous and lively fancy, and, as many of her paintings shew, possesses all the requisites for excelling in imaginative subjects. To her belongs the credit of having broken down the barrier of custom, which excluded female painters from the Academy lectures; and of having, solely by her own genius and ability, attained a high position in a most difficult and laborious branch of her profession.
But not only as an artist is Miss Corbaux known to the intelligent public of this country,—her reputation as a Biblical historiographer and critic stands deservedly high. Her deep study of the Bible, chosen, it would seem, as a recreation, has resulted in various papers, communicated to literary societies, and such periodicals as the "Athenæum," and the "Journal of Sacred Literature;" in the former appeared her "Letters on the Physical Geography of the Exodus;" and in the latter, a series of articles embodying the history of the nation termed in the Bible the Rephaim, whose close connections with the political institutions and monumental history of Egypt is clearly pointed out by the author, whose critical acumen has thrown much light in this abstruse field of research.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Conti, Margaret Louisa

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CONTI, MARGARET LOUISA,
Of Lorraine, Princess de, daughter of Henry, Duke de Guise, surnamed the Balafre, or The Scarred, was born in 1577, and died in 1631. In 1605, she married, by the request of Henry the Fourth, who was in love with her and wished her to remain at court, Francis de Bourbon, Prince de Conti. They, however, left Henry's court secretly, on the wedding night, and went to Brussels. The Prince de Conti dying in 1614, Louisa devoted herself to literature, patronized the learned, and employed . her time in studying their works, and in writing. She was one of Cardinal Richelieu's enemies, and he banished her to Eu, where she died. She wrote the loves of Henry the Fourth, under the title of "Les Amoures du Grande Alexandre." She was suspected of having married tho Marshal de Bassompierre for her second husband.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Norton (Alice)

​NORTON (ALICE), printer in London, 1641-2. Printer of political pamphlets and broadsides. It is not clear what relationship, if any, she bore to the other Nortons of this period.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Norton (John)

​NORTON (JOHN), printer in London, 1621-45. This is probably the John Norton who took up his freedom on July 8th, 1616. [Arber, iii. 684.] There were three stationers of this name at work in London during the first quarter of the 17th century, (1) John Norton, cousin of William Norton, and printer of Sir H. Saville's Chrysostom, who died in 1612; (2) John Norton, son of Mark Norton, citizen and grocer of London, apprentice to John Atkinson in 1598 and out of his time in 1605, of whom no more is heard, and (3) the subject of the present article, whose first book entry occurs in the registers on September 18th, 1621. [Arber, iv. 59.] He was in partnership with John Okes, who had succeeded to the business originally established by Thomas Judson in 1586, and in the hands successively of John Harrison the Younger, George and Lionel Snowden, and Nicholas Okes. The position of this printing house is unknown. [Arber, iii. 669 et seq.; Library, April, 1906, pp. 165, 166.] John Norton was for a time associated with Augustine Mathewes, who died in 1625
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Norton (Roger) (I)

​NORTON (ROGER), printer in London, 1658. Smyth in his Obituary, p. 49, has the following entry: "Rog. Norton, printer, who married Nell Houlker, died very poore," November 27th, 1658. Whether this printer was any relation to Roger Norton of Blackfriars, q.v., is not known.
# A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who Were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667/Norton (Roger), the younger

​NORTON (ROGER) the Younger, printer in London; Kings printing office in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, (1) Blackfriars [(?) Hunsdon House]; (2) Clerkenwell Green; (3) Little Britain. 1662-86. Son of Roger Norton, printer, of Blackfriars, q.v., and grandson of Bonham Norton. Succeeded to his father's business in 1662. His premises were burnt in the great fire, and he moved to Clerkenwell Green, and later, back to Little Britain, where he built a printing house. In the survey of the press taken in 1668, he is returned as having three presses, one apprentice, and seven workmen.