Unlearned Parliament (The). The parliament convened by Henry IV., at Coventry, in Warwickshire (1404), was so called because lawyers were excluded from it.
Unlucky Possessions, the gold of Nibelungen and the gold of Tolosa, Graysteel, Harmonia’s necklace, Sherborne, in Dorsetshire, etc.
Unready (The), Ethelred II. (*, 978-1016).
⁂ “Unready” does not mean “never ready or prepared,” but lacking rede, i.e., “wisdom, judgment or kingcraft.”
Unreason (The abbot of), or Father Howleglas, one of the masquers at Kennaquhair.--Sir W. Scott, The Abbot (time, Elizabeth).
Unwashed (The Great), the common people. It was Burke who first applied this term to the artizan class.
Upholsterer (The), a farce by Murphy (1758). Abraham Quidnunc, upholsterer, in St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, being crazed with politics, so neglects his business for the affairs of Europe that he becomes a bankrupt; but, at this crisis, his son, John, who had married the widow of a rich planter, returns from the West Indies, pays off his father’s debts, and places him in a position where he may indulge his love for politics without hampering himself with business.
Ura´nia, sister of Astrophel (Sir Philip Sidney), is the countess of Pembroke.
Urania, sister unto Astrophel,
In whose brave mind, as in a golden coffer,