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Cawdrey

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Cawdrey [ˈkɔːdrɪ]
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(Biographies / Cawdrey, Robert (16th century-17th century) M, English, EDUCATION: schoolmaster, LANGUAGE: lexicographer) Robert. 16th-17th-century English schoolmaster and lexicographer: compiled the first English dictionary (A Table Alphabeticall) in 1604


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ROBERT CAWDREY was the first person to write a reference work in 1604, entitled A Table Alphabetical.
In chapter six, John Guy studies the prosecution of the deprived minister Robert Cawdrey to show how Archbishop Whitgift championed the Queen's "imperial," theocratic power despite contradictions with civil law, canon law, and Magna Carta.
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