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This writer, politician, and philosopher is best known for 'Novum Organum', and his 'Essays', published in 1597 and 1625
He was the main prosecutor at the trial of the 2nd Earl of Essex, his former patron
He served as Lord Chancellor until he was impeached for corruption in 1621
23 April, 1248
Order of the Garter insituted
Edward III's famous order of chivarly modelled after a similar French chivalric order of knights
This pious king was married to Eleanor of Provence
Eleanor's unpopular relatives became variously Earl of Pembroke, Bishop of Winchester, and Archbishop of Canterbury
This king lost the Battle of Lewes to Simon de Montfort