Godfrey Boate (1673/1676 - 1722) was an Irish judge: he is mainly remembered now for incurring the enmity of Jonathan Swift, who celebrated Boate's death...
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Mariana, the Godfrey Boate who was described as a clerk in Chancery was almost certainly a younger son of Gerard and Katherine Boate. This Godfrey was the...
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Gerard Boate (also Gérard de Boot, Bootius or Botius) (1604, Gorinchem – 1650, Dublin) was a Dutch physician, known for his Natural History of Ireland...
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were anciently collected by Christ Church, Oxford. The Irish judge Godfrey Boate, subject of a famous mocking elegy by Jonathan Swift, is buried here...
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Value, in the said County of Devon, to the same Uses, in Lieu thereof. Godfrey Boate's Estate Act 1728 2 Geo. 2. c. 17 14 May 1729 An Act for vesting all...
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Robert Blennerhassett 9 February 1712: Morley Saunders 13 June 1715: Godfrey Boate 23 June 1716: Robert Fitzgerald 26 January 1724: Francis Bernard 22...
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September 20 – Thomas Doggett, actor and benefactor (b. c.1670) Autumn – Godfrey Boate, judge (b. 1673) Denis Daly, judge (b. c.1638) Sir John Kirwan, merchant...
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Denton (d. 1576) Elizabeth Denton (d. 1667) Thomas Isham (d. 1676) Godfrey Boate (d. 1722) Mary Rowe, Viscountess of Hillsborough (d. 1742) The pipe...
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quite unperturbed, contented himself with satirising Whitshed and Godfrey Boate, the junior judge at the trial. In 1724, the Crown moved against Swift...
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