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the author of The Art of Jugling or Legerdemaine (1612), an apparent sequel to Martin Markall, Beadle of the Bridewell (1608 or 1610), which, although sometimes attributed to Samuel Rowlands, Rid is also likely to have authored. Martin Markall recounts a history of rogues and Gypsies in England, while the second book describes the legerdemain practiced by those two loosely aligned groups.
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William Fowler 1560 ca 1581 1612 1612 a Scottish poet, writer, courtier, and translator. Fowler was part of a literary circle around Ki... Richard Hakluyt 1553 1583 1612 1616, Nov 23 an English writer. He is known for promoting the British colonisation of North America by the Eng... William Shakespeare 1564 ca 1585 1613 1616 an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English lan... Sir Thomas Overbury 1581 1601 1613 1613, Sep 14 an English poet and essayist, also known for being the victim of a murder which led to a scandalo... Vincenzo Scamozzi 1548, Sep 2 1568 1614 1616, Aug 7 an Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venic... Mary Sidney 1561, Oct 27 1575 1615 1621, Sep 25 one of the first English women to achieve a major reputation for her poetry and literary patronag... Miguel de Cervantes 1547, Sep 29 1569 1616 1616, Apr 22 a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of... Pieter Cornelisz van der Morsch 1543 1598 1616 1628 a man in Leiden best known today for his portrait that was painted by Frans Hals in 1616. He was ... Lughaidh O Cleirigh unknown 1603 1616 unknown an Irish Gaelic poet and historian. He is best known today as the author of Beatha Aodha Ruaidh ... Sir Henry Mainwaring 1587 1610 1616 1653 an English lawyer, soldier, author, seaman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 16... Franz Schmidt 1555 1573 1617 1634 an executioner in Hof from 1573 to April 1578, and from 1 May 1578 till the end of 1617 execution... John Thornborough 1551 1593 1617 1641 an English bishop. In a long ecclesiastical career, he was employed as a chaplain by the Earl of ... Thomas Coryat 1577 ca 1603 1617 1617 an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally... Sir Walter Raleigh 1554 ca 1569 1618 1618, Oct 29 an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He i... Thomas Ashe [1] unknown 1600 1618 unknown an English legal writer. Ashe entered as a student of Gray's Inn in 1574, was called to the bar 2... Thomas Bretnor unknown 1600 1619 unknown an almanac maker. Bretnor calls himself on the title-page of one of his almanacs 'student in astr... Emilia Lanier 1569, Jan 27 1600 1619 1645, Apr 3 the first Englishwoman to assert herself as a professional poet through her single volume of poem... John Andrews [1] unknown 1610 1619 unknown an English poet. Andrews was the author of a poem called the ‘Anatomie of Basenesse’ (1615), ... Robert Anton unknown 1610 1619 unknown an English poet and satirist. A unique quarto prose tract of Anton's, in black letter, entitled M... Henry Austin [1] unknown 1610 1619 unknown an English poet postulated by Alexander Balloch Grosart as author of The Scourge of Venus, or the... Yusuf Biscaino unknown 1610 1619 unknown a Morisco in the service of the Moroccan Sultan Mulay Zidan. He was sent as an ambassador to the ... Robert Carliell unknown 1610 1619 unknown an English poet. Carliell is remembered mainly for a verse defence of the new Church of England a... Edmond Graile unknown 1610 1619 unknown an English poet and physician. Graile was born at Gloucester about 1577. He matriculated at Magda... Joseph Swetnam unknown 1610 1619 1621 a Renaissance pamphleteer and Jacobean fencing master. He is best known for his misogynistic auth... Kyrillos III Loukaris unknown 1601 1620 unknown Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria for the Greek Orthodox Church (1601-1620). He co-authored many l... 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 ... 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... 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... 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... 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... Anthony Knivet unknown 1591 1649 unknown an English sailor who fell into Portuguese hands in Brazil, lived for a while with a native Brazi... 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... 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... 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... 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...
