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In the article "One of the mysteries of angling literature", John's parents were reported on page 184 to be the son of Hugh and
Katherine Trye Dennys by Rev. H.N. Ellacombe of Bitton. Sir Harris Nicholas reported that he was the younger son of Sir Walter Dennys of Pucklechurch and Agnes Danvers or
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Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Tintern Abbey,: Including a Variety of Other Particulars, Deserving the Stranger's Notice, Relating to that Much-admired Ruin, and Its Neighborhood.: The Whole Never Before Published.: Collected from Original
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It was first published in 1613. Dennys's book was published after his death, the author identified by the initials J.D., and had been attributed to up to 6 poets. In 1811 the authorship was determined from
Stationers' Registers, which showed that Dennys authored the book.
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Calm be his sleep in the old aisle of
Pucklechurch! or if any sound reach him from the outer world, may it be only the soughing of the sweet south wind, and the ripple of Boyd, that with "crooked winding way" past cliff and meadow, "Its mother Avon runneth soft to
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was written a century earlier than believed. Ellacombe claims that Sir Walter and
Katherine were his great-grand parents. The author of the article claimed that Ellacombe had the correct genealogy of author John Dennis. The introductions of the 1883 and 1885
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According to the information attributed to Chitty and stated in his biography by
Watkins, Hugh died in 1559. Chitty said he was the Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1551. According to the Angler's article, Hugh died in 1609, as did his son
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The information is to some extent based upon inscriptions on funerary monuments at St Thomas a Becket Church, however, it is not stated what monuments were viewed, nor the inscriptions of the monuments.
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editions state that it is believed that John's father was Hugh and his mother was
Katherine Trye. Watkins, his biographer, said that Ellacombe's account was "correcting Sir Harris Nicolas's account".
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Katherine, daughter of Thomas Trye of Hardwicke, Gloucestershire. Hugh's father John had been the heir of
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Ellacombe, Vicar of Bitton, was familiar with the history of the Dennis family of Pucklechurch, and wrote of John Dennys descendants who owned property in the 17th century.
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As heir, John's father established the "Dennis scholarship" for Magdalene College, Cambridge for monies originally intended by his uncle, Hugh, to be made to the
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and his biographer stated that Katherine died in 1583. There was previously a statement that she died after 1618, but that info was not properly attributed.
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was the earliest English poetical treatise on fishing. John Dennys may have been an acquaintance of Shakespeare.
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