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Tooke

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Tooke [tʊk]
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(Biographies / Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812) M, British, POLITICS: radical politician, WRITING: writer) John Horne, original name John Horne. 1736-1812, British radical, who founded (1771) the Constitutional Society to press for parliamentary reform: acquitted (1794) of high treason. He also wrote the philological treatise The Diversions of Purley (1786)


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But the gentlemen persuaded Caxton until at last he undertook to "imprint a book of the noble histories of the said King Arthur and of certaine of his knights, after a copy unto me delivered, which copy Sir Thomas Malory tooke out of certaine bookes in the Frenche, and reduced it into English.
 
 
 
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