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- George Ashby (c. 1390–1475) was an English civil servant and poet.
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George Ashby (c. 1390–1475) was an English civil servant and poet. Life. He was born about 1390, and was from Warwickshire. [1] . He was Clerk of the Signet, first to Henry VI from the beginning of his reign, and afterwards to Margaret of Anjou, in whose service he evidently travelled abroad. Margaret named him steward of Warwick in 1446. [2] .
This chapter examines how Ashby's poetry enlarges upon references to his life in historical records, pertaining to his service to the Lancastrian royal family and his work in the signet office.
George Ashby (c. 1385-1475) was scribe of the signet seal for the Lancastrian royal family. He is known to have authored two poems: a mirror for princes for Prince Edward of Lancaster, the Active Policy of a Prince
George Ashby (c. 1390-1475) is commonly thought of as a writer of political verse, or at least as a writer involved in the politics of his day, an involvement that shows through the ostensible purpose of his work (lament on being imprisoned, general advice to accept such vicissitudes with patience).
May 16, 2019 · George Ashby, MP for Warwick in the Parliament of 1459, is worthy of notice as the only known poet among the MPs of Henry VI’s reign. His poetry reflected his own troubled times and the personal difficulties that assailed him as a loyal servant of Henry VI.
GEORGE ASHBY'S original intention in writing The Active Policy of a Prince1 seems to have been to provide little more than a metrical translation of the Liber de dictis philosophorum antiquorum.
ASHBY, GEORGE (d. 1475), poetical writer, was born about 1390. Little is known of him till late in life, when he appears to have owned an estate named 'Breakspeares' in Harefield, Middlesex, and to have been clerk of the signet, first to Henry VI from the beginning of his reign, and afterwards to Margaret of Anjou, in whose service he evidently ...
