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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beornwulf

​BEORNWULF, king of the Mercians (d. 826), deposed Ceolwulf and succeeded to his kingdom in 828. At the date of his accession the long quarrel between the see of Canterbury and the Mercian crown was still in progress. The immediate occasion of this quarrel was the seizure of the Kentish monasteries, South Minster and Reculver, by Coenwulf, though the true source of the disagreement is to be found in the jealousy of the Mercian king. Beornwulf had no desire to prolong the discord. In a synod and witenagemot held at Clevesho in 824 he vainly endeavoured to make some arrangement between the archbishop and the abbess Cwenthryth, daughter of Coenwulf, who had inherited the lands her father had seized from the archbishop. At the same meeting, as it seems, was decided a famous suit concerning the monastery at Westbury, the inheritance of Æthelric. In another council held by Beornwulf at Clevesho in the next year the archbishop and the abbess were reconciled, and their reconciliation put an end to the quarrel which, according to the record of the suit still preserved to us, had deprived the whole people of the Angles 'of primordial authority and the administration of holy baptism for the space of six years.' In this council also, as it seems, a suit was determined between the king and the Bishop of Selsey touching certain lands at Denton, in Sussex. The desire of Beornwulf to gain the support of the church may be connected with his jealousy of the rising power of Wessex. In 826 he marched against Ecgberht with a large army, and advanced as far as Ellandune, which is generally supposed to have been in the neighbourhood of Salisbury, There he was met by the West-Saxon army, after heavy losses on both sides was defeated and fled. The terrible slaughter made at Ellandune is commemorated by Henry of Huntingdon in a scrap of an old ballad preserved in his chronicle. This battle caused the general break-up of the Mercian power. During the next year the king and people of East Anglia put themselves under the protection of Ecgberht, and sought his help against Mercia. Beornwulf, however, seems to have made light of the alliance between Wessex and East Anglia. He invaded East Anglia, and began to slay the chief men of the kingdom. Encouraged by the promise of help from Ecgberht, the East Anglians fought with Beornwulf. They defeated and slew him, together with a large part of his army.
[Anglo-Sax. Chron.; Florence of Worcester; Henry of Huntingdon; Haddan and Stubbs's Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents, iii. 656-604; Kemble's Codex Dipl. i. 276-85].
W. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Benwell, John Hodges

​BENWELL, JOHN HODGES (1764–1785), genre painter, was born in 1764 at Blenheim, where his father was under-steward to the Duke of Marlborough. He was a pupil of an obscure portrait painter named Sanders, but he studied also in the schools of the Royal Academy, and gained a silver medal in 1782. He afterwards for a time taught drawing at Bath, and likewise executed a few small oval drawings in water-colours, which he combined effectively with crayons in a manner peculiar to himself; but his works have suffered much from the ravages of time. He returned to London and exhibited a classical subject at the Royal Academy in 1784, but he died prematurely of consumption in 1786, and was buried in Old St. Pancras churchyard. Several of his works are well known by engravings from them. Among these are two scenes from 'Auld Robin Gray,' the 'Children in the Wood' engraved by W. Sharp, and 'A St. Giles's Beauty' and 'A St. James's Beauty' engraved by Bartolozzi. There is a drawing of 'The Chevalier de Bayard' by him in the South Kensington Museum.
[Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists, 1878.]
R. E. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beorn

​BEORN, earl of the Middle Angles (d. 1049), was the son of Ulf, the famous Danish jarl, put to death in the reign of Cnut, and of Estrith, Cnut's sister. He was therefore a nephew of Gytha, the wife of Earl Godwine, and brother of Sweyn, called Estrithson, who succeeded to the throne of Denmark 1047. Although on the accession of Eadward the Confessor the friends of Sweyn were marked for punishment for the hopes they entertained of placing him on the throne, and Beorn's brother Osbeorn was banished, Beorn himself remained in England, and probably in 1045, the year of Eadward's marriage to Godwine's daughter Eadgyth, received the ​earldom of the Middle Angles; for his first signature as earl belongs to that year (Codex Dipl. iv. 99), and his appointment was doubtless connected with the marriage of his cousin. His earldom took in all the country between the Humber and the Nen, while south of Northamptonshire — which was attached to the earldom of Siward — he was also earl over Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Huntingdonshire. He may therefore be described as 'earl of the Middle Angles, of eastern or Danish Mercia' (Freeman, Norman Conquest, i. 656–60). On the banishment of Godwine's eldest son, Swegen, in 1046, his lordships were divided between his cousin Beorn and his brother Harold. In 1049 Swegen came back to England, left his ships, some seven or eight in number, in harbour at Bosham, went to the king, who was then at Sandwich with the fleet, and craved his pardon. Harold and Beorn withstood him, though he seems to have made a special appeal to his cousin; for they were not willing to restore him the lands which the king had given them, and Swegen went back to Bosham disappointed. It happened that a report was raised at Sandwich that the Danes were harrying the west coast. Earl Godwine accordingly set sail with the ships of the country people and with two of the king s ships, one of them being under the command of Harold, who, however, gave up the command to Beorn. This fleet was weather-bound at Pevensey; and while Godwine and Beorn were there Swegen came and prayed his cousin to go with him to the king and help him to make his peace. Beorn agreed, and, trusting to his kinship with Swegen, rode off with him, taking only three companions. So secure did he feel that heassented to his cousin's request that he would turn out their way and go with him to his ships; for Swegen declared that he feared that his crews would desert him unless they saw that he had gained his cousin over to his cause. When they came to Bosham, Swegen invited Beorn to go on board. He vehemently refused, but the sailors seized him, bound him, and rowed him to one of the ships. They then set sail for Dartmouth, and there slew him by Swegen's orders. He was buried in the church. When Harold and Beorn's friends and seamen, who were in London, heard of his murder, they went to Dartmouth, took up his body, carried it to Winchester, and buried it in the old minster by the side of King Cnut, his uncle.
[Anglo-Sax. Chron.; Freeman's Norman Conquest, ii. 10–104 passim.]
W. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Benwell, Mary

​BENWELL, MARY (fl. 1761–1800). portrait painter, is not known to have been in any way related to John Hodges Benwell [q. v.] She resided in Warwick Court, London, and exhibited many crayon portraits and miniatures at the Incorporated Society of Artists and the Royal Academy between the years 1761 and 1791. She worked also in oil colours and obtained some reputation in her profession, but she retired from it on her marriage about 1762 with an officer named Code. She was still living at Paddington in 1800. There is a portrait of Queen Charlotte, engraved after her by Richard Houston, another of Miss Brockhurst, by J. Saunders, 'The Studious Fair' (said to be a portrait of Queen Charlotte), by Charles Spooner, and 'Cupid disarmed,' by Charles Knight.
[Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists, 1878.]
R. E. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Beorhtwulf

​BEORHTWULF or BERTULF (d. 852), king of the Mercians, succeeded Wiglaf in 839. In his days Mercia was subject to the West-Saxon king. In 851 came 350 ships of the Danes to the mouth of the Thames, crews landed and took Canterbury and London by storm. Beorhtwulf gathered all his host, and went out to battle against them. He was defeated and fled. Henry of Huntingdon adds, possibly from some old ballad, that he never rallied from the blow. He died the following year. He had, by his wife Sæthryth, a son named Beorhtferth, who in 850 slew his kinsman St. Wistan, the grandson of the two Mercian kings, Wiglaf and Ceolwulf. The descent of St. Wistan from these kings doubtless roused the jealousy of Beorhtferth, and prompted the deed of violence. Several charters of Beorhtwulf are printed in Kemble's 'Codex Dipl.' vol. ii. He was succeeded by Burhred.
[Anglo-Sax. Chron. 850; Florence, a. 850–1; Henry of Huntingdon, p. 737, M.H.B.]
W. H.
# De La Mettrie v. Keane/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
272 U.S. 731
De La Mettrie v. Keane
Argued: Dec. 6, 1926. --- Decided: Jan 3, 1927
The challenged decrees were entered March 2, 1925. 55 App. D. C. 354, 6 F. (2d) 479. Both causes had been heard upon a single record.
In No. 54 appellants, citizens of France, sought to recover from the Alien Property Custodian certain funds seized by him November 5, 1918, as the property of an alien enemy. They relied upon section 9, Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended by Act June 5, 1920, c. 241, 41 Stat. 977 (Comp. St. § 3115 1/2 e). The court below held that the claim did not arise with reference to money or property held by the Custodian or by the Treasurer of the United States and affirmed the decree of the trial court which dismissed the bill. Banco Mexicano v. Deutsche Bank, 263 U.S. 591, 44 S.C.t. 209, 68 L. Ed. 465. Considering the facts disclosed and the definite terms of the statute, this action was clearly right. Subsection (e) of section 9 provides: 'No money or other property shall be returned nor any debt allowed under this section to any person who is a citizen or subject of any nation which was associated with the United States in the prosecution of the war, unless such nation in like case extends reciprocal rights to citizens of the United States; nor in any event shall a debt be allowed under this section unless it was owing to and owned by the claimant prior to October 6, 1917, and as to claimants other than citizens of the United States unless it arose with reference to the money or other property held by the Alien Property Custodian or Treasurer of the United States hereunder.'
No. 55 is a separate appeal by a receiver. The appellants in No. 54 instituted in the Supreme Court, New York County, supplemental proceedings for the purpose of enforcing judgments which they held against Mrs. James, and on June 18, 1923, that court appointed David Keane receiver of all the debtor's property. Thereafter he asked to be made party to cause No. 54, claiming that by reason of such appointment he had an interest in the fund held by the Custodian. The trial court denied this application and upon appeal the court below affirmed that action. The claim is without merit. Subsection (f) of section 9, Trading with the Enemy Act, provides:
'Except as herein provided, the money or other property conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid to the Alien Property Custodian, shall not be liable to lien, attachment, garnishment, trustee process, or execution, or subject to any order or decree of any court.'
The appointment of the receiver gave him no better position than the one occupied by the judgment creditors-the New York court had no jurisdiction over funds held by the Custodian.
The decrees below are affirmed.
In No. 55 Mr. Justice BRANDEIS, Mr. Justice SANFORD, and Mr. Justice STONE concur in the result.

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# De La Rama v. De La Rama

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# De La Rama v. De La Rama (241 U.S. 154)

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United States Supreme Court
241 U.S. 154
De La Rama v. De La Rama (241 U.S. 154)
Argued: April 18, 1916. --- Decided: May 1, 1916
Messrs. Rufus S. Day, Charles Edmond Cotterill, and Edmund W. Van Dyke for plaintiff in error and appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 155-156 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Frederic R. Coudert and Howard Thayer Kingsbury for defendant in error and appellee.
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

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# De La Mettrie v. Keane

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United States Supreme Court
272 U.S. 731
De La Mettrie v. Keane
Argued: Dec. 6, 1926. --- Decided: Jan 3, 1927
Citizens of France cannot recover from Alien Property Custodian funds seized by him November 5, 1918, as property of alien enemy, since claim did not arise with reference to property held by Custodian or by Treasurer of United States, in view of Trading with the Enemy Act, § 9(e), as amended June 5, 1920 (Comp. St. § 3115 1/2 e).
Application of debtor's receiver to be made party to suit by third persons to recover from Alien Property Custodian funds seized November 5, 1918, as property of alien enemy held properly denied, in view of Trading with the Enemy Act, § 9(f), as amended June 5, 1920 (Comp. St. § 3115 1/2 e).
Messrs. J. Noble Hayes, of New York City, and Guy H. Johnson and Ralph P. Barnard, both of Washington, D. C., for appellants.
Messrs. W. D. Mitchell, Sol. Gen, of Washington, D. C., Assistant Attorney General Letts, and Dean Hill Stanley, of Washington, D. C., for appellee Alien Property Custodian.
Messrs. Mansfield Ferry, of New York City, Frank Davis, Jr., S. M. Stellwagen, and William J. Neale, all of Washington, D. C., and Frederick Geller, of New York City, for other appellees.
Mr. Justice McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# De La Rama Steamship Company v. United States

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## Concurring Opinion

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United States Supreme Court
344 U.S. 386
De La Rama Steamship Company v. United States
Argued: Jan. 15, 1953. --- Decided: Feb 2, 1953
Mr. Harold M. Kennedy, Brooklyn, N.Y., for petitioner.
Mr. Benjamin Forman, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# De La Rama Steamship Company v. United States/Concurrence Douglas

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United States Supreme Court
344 U.S. 386
De La Rama Steamship Company v. United States
Argued: Jan. 15, 1953. --- Decided: Feb 2, 1953
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS concurs in the result.

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# Curry v. McCanless

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United States Supreme Court
307 U.S. 357
Curry v. McCanless
Argued: April 28, 1939. --- Decided: May 29, 1939
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee.
[Syllabus from pages 357-359 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Marion Rushton, Ray Rushton, and A. A. Carmichael, all of Montgomery, Ala., for appellants.
Mr. Edwin F. Hunt, of Nashville, Tenn., for appellee.
Mr. Justice STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley

* Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1781), 1st ed., part 1 & 2, in The Gentleman's Magazine of December 1781 and annual supplement for 1781 (January 1782)
* Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782), 2nd ed., published February 1782 by J. Nichols
* Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1966), reprinted with an introduction by the Augustan Reprint Society in 1966
# Curtains (Hall)/The World's Voice

​THE WORLD'S VOICE
# Currin v. Wallace

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United States Supreme Court
306 U.S. 1
Currin v. Wallace
Argued: Jan. 4, 1939. --- Decided: Jan 30, 1939
[Syllabus from pages 1-3 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. J. C. Lanier, of Greenville, N.C., B. S. Royster, Jr., of Oxford, N.C., J. W. H. Roberts, of Greenville, N.C., for petitioners.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 3-5 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Robert H. Jackson, Sol. Gen., and Robert K. McConnaughey, of Dayton, Ohio, for respondents.
Mr. Chief Justice HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Curry v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
314 U.S. 14
Curry v. United States
Argued: Oct. 23, 24, 1941. --- Decided: Nov 10, 1941
Messrs. Thomas S. Lawson and John W. Lapsley, both of Montgomery, Ala., for petitioners.
Mr. Charles Fahy, Acting Solicitor General, for respondents.
[Argument of Counsel from page 15 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Chief Justice STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Curses

CURSES
Fain would I curse thee, sweet unkind!  That thou art fair; Fain curse my mother, that not blind  She did me bear; But, no! each curse would break, not bind,  The heart ye share.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bond, Henry John Hayles

1904 Errata appended.
​BOND, HENRY JOHN HALES, M.D. (1801–1883), professor at Cambridge, was a younger son of the Rev. W. Bond, fellow of Caius College and rector of Wheatacre, Norfolk, in which village he was born in 1801. He was educated at the Norwich grammar school under Dr. Valpy. He studied medicine at Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, and Paris, graduated M.B. at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, 1825, M.D. 1831. Before the latter ​date he had settled in Cambridge, where he had a large practice. In 1851 he was appointed regius professor of physic in succession to Dr. Haviland. From 1858 to 1863 he was a member of the General Medical Council. He resigned his professorship in 1872, having practically retired from practice some time before. He published nothing but an excellent syllabus of his lectures, but his tenure of office was contemporary with a great rise in the reputation of the medical school at Cambridge. He was a man of great integrity and ability, but shy and retiring. He married a daughter of William Carpenter, esq., Toft Marks, Norfolk, niece of Sir E. Berry, bart., and left a large family. He and his father present a case of remarkable longevity, for the year of his death was the 117th from the year of his father’s university degree. He died 1 Sept. 1883.
[Lancet, 15 Sept. 1883 ; Medical Journal, same date; information from Dr. Bond's fami1y.]
E. S. S.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.31 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bond, John James

​BOND, JOHN JAMES (1810–1883), chronologist, born 9 Dec. 1819, entered the public service at the age of twenty-one as a clerk, assisting Mr. (afterwards Sir) Henry Cole, his brother-in-law, in the arrangement of the public records when they were transferred from Whitehall to the Royal Riding School of Carlton House. He was senior assistant keeper of her majesty's record office at the time of his death, which occurred on 9 Dec. 1883. He compiled a useful work of reference entitled 'Handy Book of Rules and Tables for verifying dates of historical events, and of public and private documents; giving tables of regnal years of English sovereigns, with leading dates, from the Conquest to the present time,' London, 1866, 1869, and 1875. 8vo.
[Times 11 Dec. 1883; Cat. of Printed Books. in Brit. Mus.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bond, Daniel

​BOND, DANIEL (1725–1803), painter, is supposed to have been born in London. In 1762 and 1763 he exhibited landscapes at the rooms of the Society of Arts in the Strand. In 1764 he was awarded by that society twenty-five guineas, the second premium, and in 1765 fifty guineas, the first premium, for landscape paintings in oil-colours (A Register of the Premiums and Bounties given by the Society instituted in London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce from the original institution in the year mdcciv). For many years he was engaged in a manufactory at Birmingham as superintendent of the decorative department. His productions are described as highly finished landscapes, broad in treatment, after the style of Wilson, R.A. (Gent. Mag. lxxiv. 1101, and Redgrave). He seems to have amassed property enough to live a retired life during his latter years. He died at Hagley Row, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 18 Dec. 1803 (Gent. Mag. lxxiii. 1259). In 1804, a few months after his death, a number of his pictures and drawings were sold by auction in London.
[Pilkington's Dictionary of Painters; Edwards's Anecdotes of Painters, London, 1808; Redgrave's Dictionary of Artists of the English School.]
W. H-h.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bond, George

1904 Errata appended.
​BOND, GEORGE (1750–1796), lawyer, second son of George Bond, of Farnham, Surrey, by the daughter of Sir Thomas Chitty, knight, was a member of the Middle Temple, and obtained a large practice at the Surrey sessions. He belonged to a class of lawyers now happily approaching extinction, whose chief strength consists in playing upon the susceptibilities of ignorant juries. Enthralled by his coarse and vulgar humour, the jurors of his native county, Surrey, were almost at his mercy, and tradition says that a not uncommon form of verdict at the Surrey sessions was: ‘We finds for Serjeant Bond and costs' He was made a serjeant in 1786. He died 19 March 1796 of a rheumatic fever, having married in 1793 a lady named Cooke, of Conduit Street, a grandaughter of one of the prothonotaries of the common pleas.
Gent. Mag. lxvi. 262; European Magazine, xxix. 215; Law and Lawyers, i. 206; Hayden's Book of Dignities, 260; Beatson's Polit. Index, ii. 341.]
J. M. R.
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.30 N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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