Word: recforship
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Dates: during 1897-1897
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...Cambridge, where he obtained the oratorship. At the death of King James, however, all his hopes of securing a position at court vanished, and the resulting disappointment was one of the main causes of his taking orders from the church. Through the Earl of Pembroke, he obtained a small recforship, and in this period of consecration he was engaged only the last three years of his life, during which he wrote the poems which have made him so well-known...
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