Rowe, Nicholas, dramatist and poet laureate (1715), editor of a
monumental edition of Shakespeare
Rymer, Thomas, Historiographer-royal, and the compiler Of Foedera--a
collection of historical documents concerning the relations of England
and foreign powers (1639-1714)
Ryswick, Peace Of, by this treaty (in 1697) Louis XIV. recognised
William as King of England, and yielded certain towns to Spain and the
Empire
SALVATOR ROSA, a Neapolitan author and artist (1615-73); “the initiator
of romantic landscape,”
Satirist . . . Age, small, libellous, and short-lived weekly papers in
the year 1838
Saxe, led the invading Austrian army into Bohemia, and afterward became
a marshal of the French army, defeating the Duke of Cumberland at
Fontenoy, 1745