Suffolke
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Suffolke
- Obsolete spelling of Suffolk. (a county of eastern England)
- 1572, Thomas Palfreyman, “An exhortation ſent from a ſtraunger, a worthy and famous learned man of God, to the righte big he and mightie Prince, Edvvard Duke of Somerſet, for the ſeeking and quiet eſtablishing of peace and rightuouſneſle, in the Church of England: Immediatly vpon the commotions, ſodainly raiſed vp in the vveſt partes, as alſo in Suffolke and Norfolke. In the yeare of our Lord Chriſt. 1545.”, in A paraphrase uppon the epistle of the holie apostle S. Paule to the Romanes, page 86:
- 1590, John Stow, A Svmmarie of the Chronicles of England, from the Firſt arriuing of Brute in this Iſland, vnto this preſent yeere of Chriſt, 1590[1]:
- From thence to the riuer of Trent, which paſſeth through the middeſt of England, be 16 ſhires, whereof the firſt ſix (ſtanding Eaſtward) are Eſſex, Middleſex, Hartfordſhire, Suffolke, Northſolke and Cambridgeſhire: […]
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 120, column 2:
- We heere create thee the firſt Duke of Suffolke, / And girt thee with the Sword. Coſin of Yorke
- 1624, John Drue, The Duchess of Suffolke:
- 1627, William Hawkins, Apollo Shroving, Composed for the Schollars of the Free-schoole of Hadleigh in Suffolke: