Who is Richard Rowlands

Richard Rowlands, born Richard Verstegan (c. 1550 – 1640), was an Anglo-Dutch antiquary, publisher, humorist and translator. Verstegan was born in East London the son of a cooper; his grandfather, Theodore Roland Verstegen, was a refugee from Guelders who arrived in England around the year 1500. A convert to the Catholic Church, Rowlands produced an English translation of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary; the translation and primer prayer book that contained it remained among the most popular English Catholic devotionals for two centuries.

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Under the patronym Rowlaunde, Richard went to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1564, where he may have studied early English history and the Anglo-Saxon language. Having become a Catholic, he left the university ...
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Richard Rowlands Poems

  • Lullaby
    Upon my lap my sovereign sits
    And sucks upon my breast;
    Meantime his love maintains my life
    And gives my sense her rest....
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Joy 1 Life 1 Love 1 Mother 1 Work 1 I Love You 1 Sense 1 Nurse 1 Duty 1


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Bnayahu1: richard forst: you're a lovely girl. jeannie rapp: i'm too old to be lovely. and i haven't got a heart of gold. the nights are long, and little orphan annie of hard knocksville gets tough, you know. gena rowlands & john marley, faces (1968) dir. john cassavetes.
Nielstofthanse1: montana on hbo max i cannot remember who gena rowlands is but she is probably pretty and wears rawhide in this old western with rambo's honorary father richard crenna. montana as i understand is the montainous state in the us and therefore beautiful
Derekwinnert: the sizzling 1967 neo-noir thriller film tony rome finds frank sinatra enjoying a classic hard-boiled detective role as tough, footloose and fancy free miami private investigator tony rome, an ex-cop who lives on a powerboat called straight pass.
Wgxanews: have you seen or heard from richard rowlands?
Cofeportsmouth: please pray for the parishes of blendworth with chalton with idsworth and rowlands castle, their clergy vickie morgan, richard hutchins and joy windsor, (1/2)
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