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1604 ca 1640s-1650s 1664 ca
an English merchant and writer. He is best known for a work on religious toleration, Liberty of Conscience from 1644. He wrote extensively on trade and economics, including advocacy for English trade policy during the Rump Parliament, In economic policy his writings had some effect: in the areas of interest rates, naturalisation of foreigners, redistibution of trades from the London centre, and inland navigation, there was a measure of economic reform in the directions he with Hartlib had proposed
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Henry Robinson 1604 ca 1640
1659 1664 ca
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... Feardorcha O Meallain unknown 1641 1647 unknown an Irish poet the reputed author of An DÃbirt go Connachta. He is said to have been a Franciscan... Matthew Hopkins 1620 ca 1644 1647 1647, Aug 12 an English witch-hunter whose career flourished during the English Civil War. He claimed to hold ... 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... William Drury unknown 1640 1649 unknown an English dramatist. Drury was an English gentleman "of singular parts and learning". He was for... Edmund Gregory 1615 ca 1640 1649 unknown an English author. The son of Henry Gregory, rector of, and benefactor to, Sherrington, Wiltshire... Naftali Hertz unknown 1640 1649 unknown a German rabbi, born in Frankfurt, author of the controversial work Emeq HaMelekh (Valley of the ... Anna Hume unknown 1640 1649 unknown a Scottish translator, poet and writer. Controversy surrounded her publication of History of the ... James Yorke unknown 1640 1649 unknown an English heraldic writer. He wrote a compilation on heraldry and genealogy that appeared in fol... 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... Tarlach O Meallain unknown 1641 1650 unknown an Irish Franciscan, author of CÃn Lae Uà Mhealláin . Tarlach was the chaplain to Felim ... Richard Elton unknown 1650 1650 unknown an English military writer. Elton was the author of The compleat Body of the Art Military. . .... Agneta Horn 1629, Aug 18 1650 1650 1672, Mar 18 a Swedish writer born to noble parents and a military father. She traveled a great deal throughou... 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 ... John Smith [3] 1618 1644 1652 1652, Aug 7 an English philosopher, theologian, and educator. Smith entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1... 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... Blaise Pascal 1623, Jun 19 1642 1659 1662, Aug 19 a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child pro... Richard Balam unknown 1650 1659 unknown an English mathematician. Balam was the author of Algebra, or the Doctrine of composing, inferrin... Richard Whitlock unknown 1650 1659 unknown Author of the satirical book 'Zootomia', published in 1654. 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 ... Claude Lancelot 1615 ca 1638 1660 1695 Born in Paris, later to become a Jansenist monk and grammarian. Helped to establish the Petites Ã... Nathaniel Bacon [3] 1593, Dec 12 1645 1660 1660 an English Puritan lawyer, writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times... William Rand unknown 1650 1660 unknown an English physician who projected general reforms in medical education, practice and publication... Thomas Fuller 1608 1630 1661 1661, Aug 16 an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worth... Laurence Clarkson 1615 1646 1661 1667 an English theologian and accused heretic. He was the most outspoken and notorious of the loose c... Robert Abbot [1] 1588 ca 1610 1662 1662 ca an English theologian who promoted puritan doctrines. He is sometimes mistakenly described as the... William Aspinwall unknown 1648 1662 unknown a nonconformist English minister. He proceeded B.A. in 1657, but having obtained orders, went no... William Ames [2] unknown 1655 1662 1662 an early English itinerant Quaker preacher and writer. He joined the Quakers in 1655 at Dublin, h... Cu Choigcriche O Cleirigh unknown 1624 1664 unknown an Irish historian and genealogist, known in English as Peregrine O'Clery. Along with Brother MÃ... 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,... Pope Alexander VII 1599, Feb 13 1655 1667 1667, May 22 Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 7 April 1655 to his death in 1667. Alexander VII disliked... 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 Wilkins 1614, Feb 14 1637 1668 1672, Nov 19 an Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal S... John Knowles [1] unknown 1646 1668 unknown an English antitrinitarian preacher, imprisoned in 1665. A short paper of arguments for the deity... 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... Madeleine de Souvre 1599 1640 1669 1678, Jan 16 a French writer, was the daughter of Gilles de Souvré, marquis de Courtenvaux, tutor of Louis XI... Robert Bayfield 1629 1650 1669 unknown an English physician. He was born in Norwich and wrote with much energy on both religious and med... Sarah Blackborow unknown 1650 1669 unknown the author of tracts that strongly influenced Quaker thinking on social problems and the theologi... William Brough unknown 1630 1671 1671 an English royalist churchman, Dean of Gloucester from 1643. Brough was a supporter of William La... Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh unknown 1640 1671 unknown an Irish scribe, translator, historian and genealogist. He was one of the last traditionally trai... Moise Vauquelin unknown 1650 1672 unknown An officer under François l'Ollonais, he also had a partnership with Pierre Le Picard. In his l... 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... Moliere 1622, Jan 15 1643 1673 1673, Feb 17 a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in We... 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... Thomas Watson [2] 1620 ca 1646 1679 1686 an English, Nonconformist, Puritan preacher and author. He showed strong Presbyterian views durin... Henry Fell unknown 1650 1679 unknown a Quaker missionary and writer. The first mention of him is in 1656 as suffering much from the ma... 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... William Robertson unknown 1650 1680 unknown a Scottish Hebraist. He was educated at Edinburgh University, taught Hebrew in London from 1653â€... Thomas Browne 1605, Oct 19 1637 1682 1682, Oct 19 an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields i... Guarino Guarini 1624, Jan 7 1648 1683 1683, Mar 6 an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque and Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer. H... 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 ... Basil Ringrose unknown 1653 1686 unknown surgeon and cartographer ……runaway indentured servant who joined Bartholomew Sharp's "Pacific... Ferghal Dubh O Gadhra unknown 1655 1686+ unknown an Irish cleric and scribe. O Gadhra was the compiler of the O Gara Manuscript (now RIA MS 23 F 1... John Bunyan 1628, Nov 1644 1688 1688, Aug 31 an English writer and Baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory Anna Weamys unknown 1650 1688 unknown an English author. Weamys has been identified as the author of A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydne... Colonel Cuthbert Potter 1637 ca 1653 1690 1691 Born in England and died in Barbados. He practiced law in Lancaster County, Virginia, as early as... Michael Wigglesworth 1631 1651 1691 1705 a Puritan minister, doctor and poet whose poem The Day of Doom was a bestseller in early N... Samuel Pepys 1633, Feb 23 1655 1691 1703, May 26 an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most well known for the diary ... John Evelyn 1620, Oct 31 1640 1694 1706, Feb 27 an English writer, gardener and diarist. Evelyn's diaries, or memoirs, are largely contemporaneou... Daibhidh O Duibhgheannain unknown 1651 1696 unknown an active Iriish scribe, compiler and poet between the years 1651 and 1696. In the earliest of hi... Edward Phillips 1630, Aug 1651 1696 1696 ca an English author. His most important work is Theatrum poetarum (1675), a list of the chie... Marie de Rabutin-Chantal 1626, Feb 5 1651 1696 1696, Apr 17 a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her letters, celebrated for their... Joan Baptista Aguilar unknown 1655 1699 1714 a dramatic author and poet who lived in Valencia, Spain from his birth until his death in 1714. I... Jacques-Benigne Bossuet 1627, Sep 27 1643 1701 1704, Apr 12 a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been conside... Roger L'Estrange 1616, Dec 17 1639 1702 1704, Dec 11 an English pamphleteer, author and staunch defender of Royalist claims. L'Estrange was involved i... Philipp Spener 1635, Jan 13 1653 1702 1705, Feb 5 a German Christian theologian known as the "Father of Pietism." Highly influenced by Johann Arndt... Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux 1636, Nov 1 1656 1711 1711, Mar 13 a French poet and critic. Boileau did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, as Bla... Pierre Daniel Huet 1630, Feb 8 1651 1721 1721, Jan 26 a French churchman and scholar, editor of the Delphin Classics, founder of the Academie du Physiq... Constantin Christian Dedekind 1628, Apr 2 1652 178 1715 a German poet, dramatist, librettist, composer and bass singer of the Baroque era. His 1657 songb...
