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an Irish chronicler. He contributed to The Annals of the Four Masters. He belonged to a family of hereditary men of letters in Connacht, where he was born, probably at Cluainnahoidhche, near Lochnahoidhche, in the parish of Clooncraff, County Roscommon. He was one of the authors of the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland and, with the three other chief writers, was included by John Colgan in the designation Annales Quatuor Magistrorum (Preface to Acta Sanctorum Hiberniæ, p. 7), which has become the popular name of the book.
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Fearfeasa O'Mulconry unknown 1636
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William Alabaster 1567, Feb 27 1592 1637 1640, Apr 28 an English poet, playwright, and religious writer. He became a Roman Catholic convert in Spain wh... Ben Jonson 1572, Jun 11 1598 1637 1637, Aug 6 an English playwright, poet, actor and literary critic of the 17th century, whose artistry exerte... Robert Fludd 1574, Jan 17 1605 1637 1637, Sep 8 a prominent English Paracelsian physician with both scientific and occult interests. He is rememb... Galileo Galilei 1564, Feb 15 1581 1638 1642, Jan 8 an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major rol... Johann Heinrich Alsted 1588, Mar 1608 1638 1638, Nov 9 a German Calvinist minister and academic, known for his varied interests: in Ramism and Lullism, ... Nicholas Bradshawe unknown 1630 1639 unknown an English writer. Very little is known about the details of his life. He was a fellow of Balliol... Xu Xiake 1587, Jan 5 1607 1640 1641, Mar 8 a Chinese travel writer and geographer of the Ming Dynasty, known best for his famous geographica... Richard Bernard 1568 1598 1641 1641 an English Puritan clergyman and writer. Barnard was a Calvinist Puritan, but a moderate one. Ber... Edward Finch unknown 1630 1641 unknown an English Royalist divine. On 9 December 1630 Edward was admitted to the vicarage of Christ Chur... James Shirley 1596, Sep 1625 1642 1666, Oct an English dramatist. He belonged to the great period of English dramatic literature, but, in Lam... Sir John Suckling 1609, Feb 10 1631 1642 1642 ca an English poet and a prominent figure among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit, the acco... Charles de Valois 1573, Apr 28 1589 1643 1650, Sep 24 a French royal bastard, count of Auvergne, duke of Angoulême, and memoirist. Charles de Valois w... Joseph Hall 1574, Jul 1 1597 1643 1656, Sep 8 an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and... Francisco Pacheco 1571 1611 1644 1654 a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher and father-in-law of Diego Velázquez and Alonzo Can... Hugo Grotius 1583, Apr 10 1599 1645 1645, Aug 28 a Dutch jurist. Along with the earlier works of Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili, Grotiu... John Abbot 1587/88 1623 1647 1650 ca an English Roman Catholic clergyman and poet. His birthplace is uncertain, but may have been Lond... Thomas Edwards [2] 1599 ca 1625 1647 1647 an English Puritan clergyman. He was a very influential preacher in London of the 1640s, and also... Anthony Knivet unknown 1591 1649 unknown an English sailor who fell into Portuguese hands in Brazil, lived for a while with a native Brazi... Fearfeasa O Maol Chonaire unknown 1620 1649 unknown co-compiler and scribe of the Annals of the Four Masters. As a young man, he participated in the ... Andre du Ryer 1580 ca 1630 1649 1660/1672 a French orientalist who wrote the third western translation of the Qur'an. He was a diplomatic a... Jasper Fisher 1591 1630 1649 unknown an English divine and dramatist. About 1631 (according to Anthony Wood) he became rector of Wilsd... Rene Descartes 1596, Mar 31 1619 1650 1650, Feb 11 a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosoph... Niccolo Cabeo 1586, Feb 26 1620 1650 1650, Jun 30 an Italian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, engineer and mathematician. He is noted for his contri... John Selden 1584, Dec 16 1612 1652 1654, Nov 30 an English jurist and a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish ... Pierre Gassendi 1592, Jan 22 1617 1653 1655, Oct 24 a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church po... Theodore Tronchin 1582, Apr 17 1608 1655 1657, Nov 19 a Swiss Calvinist theologian, controversialist and Hebraist. He studied theology at Geneva, Basel... Edward Fisher unknown 1627 1655 unknown an English theological writer. He is generally considered the author of The Marrow of Modern Divi... Johann Heinrich Bisterfeld 1605 1629 1655 1655, Feb 16 a German philosopher, logician and encyclopedic writer from Siegen. A follower of Ramus and pupil... Margherita Costa 1600 ca 1628 1657 1657 a singer, poet, playwright and feminist, is the most Baroque of the seventeenth-century Italian w... Menasseh Ben Israel 1604 1632 1657 1657, Nov 20 a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebr... Henry Cockeram unknown 1623 1658 unknown an English lexicographer. In 1623, he authored the third known English Language dictionary, and t... Anthony Jenkinson 1529 1550 166 1610/1611 one of the first Britons to explore Muscovy and present day Russia. Jenkinson was a traveller and... Saul Levi Morteira 1596 ca 1616 1660 1660, Feb 10 a Dutch rabbi of Portuguese descent. Morteira was the founder of the congregational school Keter ... Thomas Fuller 1608 1630 1661 1661, Aug 16 an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worth... Robert Abbot [1] 1588 ca 1610 1662 1662 ca an English theologian who promoted puritan doctrines. He is sometimes mistakenly described as the... Cu Choigcriche O Cleirigh unknown 1624 1664 unknown an Irish historian and genealogist, known in English as Peregrine O'Clery. Along with Brother Mí... Mildmay Fane 1602, Jan 24 1621 1666 1666, Feb 12 an English nobleman, politician, and writer. One hundred and thirty seven poems by Fane appeared ... William Day 1605 ca 1624 1666 1684 an English cleric and biblical commentator. He received his education at Eton College. He was ele... Jean Ogier de Gombauld 1576 1624 1666 1666 a French playwright and poet. Gombauld was born in Saint-Just-Luzac, Charente-Maritime and was a ... Ismael Bullialdus 1605, Sep 28 1632 1667 1694, Nov 25 a famous astronomer and mathematician during the seventeenth century. He published several books,... Pierre Corneille 1606,Jun 6 1629 1668 1684, Oct 1 a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French ... Jean-Baptiste Tavernier 1605 1630 1668 1689 a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant tra... John Trapp 1601, Jun 5 1622 1669 1669, Oct 16 an English Anglican Bible commentator. His large five-volume commentary is still read today and i... William Prynne 1600 1627 1669 1669, Oct 24 an English lawyer, author, polemicist, and political figure. He was a prominent Puritan opponent ... John Webb 1611 1628 1669 1672, Oct 24 an English architect and scholar. In 1654 Webb designed the first classical portico on an English... William Brough unknown 1630 1671 1671 an English royalist churchman, Dean of Gloucester from 1643. Brough was a supporter of William La... Ingen Ryuki 1592, Dec 7 1620 1673 1673, May 19 a Chinese Linji Chán Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher. He is most known for founding the Ob... Adam Vaclav Michna z Otradovic 1600, Jun 30 1633 1673 1676, Oct 16 a Czech Catholic aristocrat, poet, composer, hymn writer, organist and choir leader of the early ... Salvator Rosa 1615, Jun 20/Jul 21 1634 1673 1673, Mar 15 an Italian Baroque painter, poet, and printmaker, who was active in Naples, Rome, and Florence. A... Robert Herrick 1591, Aug 1623 1674 1674, Oct a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. T... John Milton 1608, Dec 9 1623 1674 1674, Nov 8 an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of Engl... Thomas Hobbes 1588, Apr 5 1608 1675 1679, Dec 4 an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book L... Roger Williams 1603, Dec 21 ca 1628 1676 1683, Jan-Mar a Puritan, an English Reformed theologian, and later a Reformed Baptist who was expelled by the P... Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598, Dec 7 1609 1678 1680, Nov 28 an Italian artist and a prominent architect who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sc... Thomas Ady unknown 1630 1679 unknown an English physician and humanist who was the author of three sceptical books on witchcraft and w... George Hartgill unknown 1590 168 unknown an English astronomer. Hartgill was in considerable repute during Elizabeth I's reign, from his k... Denzil Holles 1599, Oct 31 1624 1680 1680, Feb 17 an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the Five Members whose attempted unconstitu... Edmund Waller 1606, Mar 3 1624 1686 1687, Oct 21 an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and ...
