What a puzzle! Here is my best guess (from classical knowledge): dru=oak; or druphe = a tearing, scraping; the =?; xul = wood; venio = combe (come). Somebody Woodcombe. Probably totally wrong.
Penny McC
On 15 Jul 2013, at 13:18, Roger Kuin wrote:
> SidSpenians,
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> In the 1640s there was a small pamphlet war about Prayer Book services, in which the BCP's defender, one Giles Calfine, responding to a Puritan attacker, used the pseudonym "Drupheyra Thexylvenio". If anyone has any ideas to share about the provenance and/or decoding of this peculiar name, I should be most grateful.
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> With thanks,
> Roger Kuin
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> apologies for cross-posting
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