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a Scottish official, tutor and author. He followed James VI of Scotland to England on his accession in 1603. In June 1618 he was engaged in the work of raising voluntary gifts for the supply of the king's exchequer by threatening persons with prosecutions for usury. Six years later (August 1624) King James I wrote a letter of recommendation on his behalf. Scot apparently acted as occasional tutor to Prince Charles. In 1623 and 1625 he was in Amsterdam, and observed the separatist churches there. Scot's position resembled those of Joseph Hall and Thomas Tymme, with emphasis on unity of doctrine. He attacked alchemy, in particular, as example of curiosity, leading to skepticism, leading to a large-scale questioning of orthodoxy.
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Thomas Harriot 1560 ca 1580 1621 1621, Jul 2 an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, and translator. He is sometimes credited with... William Strachey 1572, Apr 4 1605 1621 1621, Jun 21 an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English ... Richard Argall unknown 1621 1621 unknown a poet, of whom little is known, and whose existence is disputed. His name appears on the title-p... Pedro Paez 1564 1589 1622 1622, May 25 a Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia. Páez is considered by many experts on Ethiopia to be th... Ottavio Codogno unknown 1599 1623 unknown the deputy postmaster general of the Duchy of Milan and author of an extensive guidebook to the p... John Brinsley the Elder unknown 1581 1624 unknown an English schoolmaster, known for his educational works. His best-known work is Ludus Literarius... George Chapman 1559 ca 1596 1624 1634, May 12 an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influ... Ericus Erici Sorolainen 1546 1583 1625 1625 a Finnish Lutheran bishop, a Bishop of Turku from 1583 to 1625 as the successor to Paulus Juuste... King James I 1566, Jun 19 1603 1625 1625, Mar 27 King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland (and Supreme Head... John Fletcher [1] 1579, Dec 1606 1625 1625, Aug a Jacobean playwright. Following William Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men, he w... Willem Schouten 1567 ca 1615 1625 1625 a Dutch navigator for the Dutch East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route ... Francis Bacon 1561, Jan 22 1579 1626 1626, Apr 9 an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist and author. He served both... Robert Naunton 1563 1606 1626 1635, Mar 27 an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1606 an... Thomas Smith [1] unknown 1600 1627 unknown an English soldier. Smith as he styles himself on the title-page of the first edition (4to, 1600)... John Preston 1587, Oct 1611 1627 1628, Jul 20 an Anglican cleric and master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. About 1611, the year in which he co... Samuel Rowlands 1573 ca 1598 1628 1630 an English author of pamphlets in prose and verse, which reflect the follies and humours of lower... George Silver unknown 1550 1629 unknown a gentleman of England during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, who is known for his writin... Johannes Buxtorf 1564, Dec 25 1589 1629 1629, Sep 13 a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine ye... Oliver Almond unknown 1590 1629 unknown a Roman Catholic priest and writer, born in the diocese of Oxford. He is believed by Foley to hav... Thomas Beard unknown 1590 1629 1632 an English clergyman and theologian, of Puritan views. He is known as the author of The Theatre o... Nicolas de Cardona unknown 1610 1629 unknown a Spanish entrepreneur and adventurer with residence in Seville, who was involved in the explorat... John Ashmore unknown 1620 1629 unknown the first who attempted a translation into English of selected odes of Horace. In 1621 he publis... Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda unknown 1620 1629 unknown the pseudonym of a man who wrote a sequel to Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. The identity of Fe... Diego Beltran Hidalgo unknown 1620 1629 unknown a seventeenth century Spanish Marrano poet. The son of a Jew from Murcia, he was noted as an edi... Johannes Kepler 1571, Dec 27 1594 1630 1630, Nov 15 a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific r... Edmund Howes unknown 1607 1631 unknown an English chronicler. Howes lived in London, and designated himself "gentleman". Undeterred by J... Randle Cotgrave unknown 1590 1632 1634 an English lexicographer who in 1611 compiled and published A Dictionarie of the French and En... Henry Wotton 1568, Mar 30 1588 1633 1639, Dec an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. Of 2... John Harrison [1] unknown 1610 1633 unknown an English representative in Morocco in the 17th century. James I of England sent John Harrison t... George Abbot 1562, Oct 19 1611 1633 1633, Aug 5 an English divine who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633 for the Church of England. H... Felix Lope de Vega 1562, Nov 25 1594 1634 1635, Aug 27 a Spanish playwright, poet and novelist. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Cent... John Marston 1576, Oct 7 1598 1634 1634, Jun 25 an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. His ca... Geoffrey Keating 1569 ca 1603 1634 1644 ca a 17th-century historian. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and is buried in Tubrid Grave... Patrick Anderson unknown 1618 1635 unknown a physician and author. Anderson was the author of ‘The Colde Spring of Kinghorne Craig’ (161... Peregrine O Duibhgeannain unknown 1627 1636 unknown an Irish historian and chronicler. Nothing is known of his life and activities until he began wor... 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, ... 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... James Shirley 1596, Sep 1625 1642 1666, Oct an English dramatist. He belonged to the great period of English dramatic literature, but, in Lam... 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 ... 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... Margherita Costa 1600 ca 1628 1657 1657 a singer, poet, playwright and feminist, is the most Baroque of the seventeenth-century Italian w... 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 ... 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 ... 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... 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... 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... 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 ...
