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Oldcastle (Sir John)

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called the Good Lord Cobham, the first Christian martyr among the English nobility (December 14th, 1417).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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