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A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, vulgarly called vagabonds was first published in 1566 by Thomas Harman, and although no copies of that edition survive, it must have been popular, because two printers were punished by the Stationers' Company in 1567 for pirated editions. Two editions were published in 1568, and a revised edition in 1573. It is one of the fundamental texts for rogue literature. Harman is one of the first writers to use the word rogue, which was adopted in the Poor Law legislation of 1572.
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Pedlers French: The canting language, the special speech of the beggars, vagabonds, and thieves of Tudor times. It is used,...
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Thomas Harmanunknown1560
 
1569unknown

Michelangelo1475, Mar 61490
 
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Lewys Morgannwgunknown1520
 
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15661566, Jul 2
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15671570, Jan 8
 a French architect, one of the great masters of the French Renaissance; also wrote two books on a...
Benvenuto Cellini1500, Nov 31519
 
15691571, Feb 13
 an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist who also wrote a famous ...
Giorgio Vasari1511, Jul 301530
 
15691574, Jun 27
 an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most ...
Jeronimo de Vivarunknown1540
 
1569unknown
 a Spanish historian of the early conquest and settlement of the Kingdom of Chile, and author of C...
William Baldwinunknown1547
 
1569unknown
 an English author. From the West Country, England, Baldwin studied logic and philosophy at Oxford...
John Phillipunknown1550
 
1569unknown
 an English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan era. He is known for his play The Commodye of Pa...
John Barthletunknown1560
 
1569unknown
 an English theological writer. Barthlet was a minister of the Church of England, and held strongl...
Robert Fillsunknown1560
 
1569unknown
 an English-French translator who translated works from French into English. In 1562, Fills publis...
Goddred Gylbyunknown1560
 
1569unknown
 an English translator. These is very little that is known about his life. A son of Anthony Gilby,...
Abraham Hartwell the Elderunknown1560
 
1569unknown
 an English poet, who wrote in Latin. When Richard Shacklock published a translation of a letter w...
John Rollandunknown1560
 
1569unknown
 a Scottish poet who appears to have been a priest of the diocese of Glasgow, and to have been kno...
Aonghus Fionn O Dalaighunknown1520
 
1570unknown
 an Irish poet. Thought to have been born in County Meath, Aonghus Fionn was the head of the branc...
Arthur ap Huwunknown1555
 
1570unknown
 a clergyman, patron of Welsh poets, and a translator of religious literature into Welsh. He was a...
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15721572, Nov 24
 a Scottish clergyman, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the Protestant Reformation and i...
Isabella Whitney1547 ca1567
 
1573unknown
 the earliest identified woman to have published secular poetry in the English language. She has b...
Donald Monrounknown1526
 
1574unknown
 a Scottish clergyman, who wrote an early and historically valuable description of the Hebrides an...
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15741578, Oct 13
 a French architect and sculptor who built the tombs of Anne de Montmorency, Grand ConnĂ©table of ...
Paulus Juusten1516/201563
 
15751575, Aug 22
 the first bishop of Viipuri, and later, bishop of Turku for the Lutheran Finish Church from 1563 ...
John Awdelyunknown1559
 
1577unknown
 an English printer in London, known as a writer of popular and miscellaneous works. Many of his p...
George Buchanan1506, Feb1529
 
15821582, Sep 28
  a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was "the...
Jan Kochanowski15301559
 
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 a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to the Polis...
John Bellendenunknown1533
 
1587unknown
 a Scottish writer of the 16th century. At the request of James V he translated Hector Boece's His...
Mary Stuart1542, Dec 81558
 
15871587, Feb 8
 reigned over Scotland from 14 December 1542 to 24 July 1567. As Mary was an infant when she inher...
Francois Hotman1524, Aug 231542
 
15891590, Feb 12
 a French Protestant lawyer and writer, associated with the legal humanists and with the monarchom...
Morus Dwyfechunknown1520
 
1590unknown
 a Welsh-language poet. There is very little information available concerning the details of his l...
William Webbeunknown1568
 
1591unknown
 an English critic and translator. Little is known about him except that he attended Trinity Colle...
Michel de Montaigne1533, Feb 281546
 
15921592, Sep 13
 one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the es...
Queen Elizabeth I1533, Sep 71558
 
16031603, Mar 24
 Queen of England and Ireland (and Supreme Governor of the Church of England ) from 17 November 15...
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16051609 ca
 an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher, imperialist, and adviser to...
Sir Geoffrey Fenton1539 ca1567
 
16081608, Oct 19
 an English writer, Privy Councillor, and Principal Secretary of State in Ireland. Geoffrey is sai...
Vincenzo Scamozzi1548, Sep 21568
 
16141616, Aug 7
 an Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venic...
George Silverunknown1550
 
1629unknown
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1661610/1611
 one of the first Britons to explore Muscovy and present day Russia. Jenkinson was a traveller and...
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