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unknown 1680s unknown
a writing-master based in London, and the author of a system of shorthand published in 1685. The method, a modification of that of Jeremiah Rich, was so much practised that the Bible, the New Testament, and the Singing Psalms were published, according to its system, two years later. The 1695 edition of his work was entitled Stenographia, or the Art of Short-Writing completed in a far more compendious methode than any yet extant. It was engraved throughout. The Bible was engraved by John Sturt. In subsequent editions of the Bible the preliminary leaves were changed, and the book dedicated to King William. All the title-pages are dated 1687.
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William Addy unknown 1680
1689 unknown
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... Uilliam O Duinnin unknown 1670 1682 unknown an Irish scribe. Not much is known about him. The son of Domhnall Óg Ó Duinnín, Uilliam was th... Guarino Guarini 1624, Jan 7 1648 1683 1683, Mar 6 an Italian architect of the Piedmontese Baroque and Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer. H... John Archer unknown 1660 1684 unknown a court physician in the reign of Charles II. Of his origin nothing is certainly known; but he wa... 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... Ferrand Spence unknown 1682 1686 unknown translator 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... Elizabeth Cellier unknown 1668 1688 unknown a notable Catholic midwife in seventeenth-century England. She stood trial for treason in 1679 fo... Aphra Behn 1640, Dec 14 ca 1670 1688 1689, Apr 16 a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the... Raveneau de Lussan unknown 1679 1688 unknown a French buccaneer. In 1679 he embarked for Santo Domingo in search of fortune, but was unsuccess... Claude Bendier unknown 1670 1689 1677 a doctor of the Sorbonne, canon of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, and a well-known French bibliophile. Bor... John Bradshaw unknown 1670 1689 unknown an English criminal and supposed political writer. He was the son of Alban Bradshaw, an attorney,... Jasper Danckaerts 1639, May 7 1670 1689 1703 ca the founder of a colony of Labadists along the Bohemia River in Maryland. He was a cooper, and wa... David Abercromby unknown 1680 1689 1702 a 17th-century Scottish physician and writer. Brought up at Douai as a Roman Catholic by Jesuit p... 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... Rhys Cadwaladr unknown 1666 1690 1690 a Welsh language poet and classical scholar, born in Conwy, north Wales. Died in 1690. He wrote a... 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... Matsuo Basho 1644 1662 1694 1694 the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bash? was recognized for hi... 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... Robert Anderson unknown 1668 1696 unknown an English mathematician and silk-weaver. He wrote articles and books devoting special attention... William Wycherley 1641 ca 1659 1697 1716, Jan 1 an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife ... Gaspar Sanz 1640 1660 1697 1710 an Aragonese composer, guitarist, organist and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the ... Alexandre-Olivier Exquemelin 1645 1669 1697 1707 a French, Dutch or Flemish writer best known as the author of one of the most important sourceboo... Thomas Neale 1641 1664 1698 1699 an English project-manager and politician who was also the first person to hold a position equiva... John Fryer 1650 ca 1671 1698 1733, Mar 31 an English doctor and Fellow of the Royal Society, now best remembered for his descriptions of tr... 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... John Ayres unknown 1680 1700 unknown an English author, scribe and publisher. About 1680 he commenced the execution and publication of... 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... John Locke 1632, Aug 29 1660 1704 1704, Oct 28 an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlighten... Estephan El Douaihy 1630, Aug 2 1670 1704 1704, May 3 He was the 57th Patriarch of the Maronite Church from 1670 to 1704. He is considered one of the m... Charles Montagu 1661, Apr 16 1683 1706 1715, May 19 an English poet and statesman. In 1685, Montagu's verses on the death of King Charles II made suc... Thomas Edwards [3] 1652 1685 1707 1721 a Welsh divine and orientalist. Edwards was born at Llanllèchid, near Bangor, Carnarvonshire, in... 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... Francisco de Artiga 1650 1670 1711 1711 an engraver, an architect, a mathematician, and an author of reputation. He painted several 'Siby... Haquin Spegel 1645, Jun 14 1670 1714 1714, Apr 17 a religious author and hymn writer who held several bishop's seats for the Lutheran Swedish Churc... William Dampier 1651, Sep 1673 1715 1715, Mar the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumn... Karen Brahe 1657, Dec 1 1683 1717 1736, Sep 27 a Danish aristocrat and book-collector. Karen became an able administrator of her father's estate... Samuel Schotten 1644 1685 1719 1719, Jul 5 He became Rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1685. Shmuel Schotten HaCohen was born ... Willem Sewel 1653, Apr 1668 1720 1720, Mar a Dutch Quaker historian, of English background. He was son of Jacob Williamson Sewel, a free cit... Thomas d'Urfey 1653 1676 1720 1723, Feb 26 an English writer and wit. He composed plays, songs, and poetry, in addition to writing jokes. He... 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... Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach 1656, Jul 20 1671 1723 1723, Apr 5 an Austrian architect, sculptor, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundl... Isaac Newton 1642, Dec 25 1665 1726 1726, Mar 20 an English physicist and mathematician (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who ... Cotton Mather 1663, Feb 12 1685 1726 1728, Feb 13 a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphle... Richard Blackmore 1654, Jan 22 1682 1727 1729, Oct 9 an English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an example ... Matthew Tindal 1657 1678 1733 1733, Aug 16 an eminent English deist author. His works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, ... John Arbuthnot 1667, Apr 1685 1735 1735, Feb 27 a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contribution... Melchior de Polignac 1661, Oct 11 1683 1742 1742, Nov 20 a French diplomat, Cardinal and neo-Latin poet. During the last years of Louis XIV, Abbé de Poli... Charlotte-Catherine Patin 1672 ca 1683 1744 1744 a 17th- and 18th-century French writer and art critic. Granddaughter of medical doctor and letter... Gavril Stefanovic Venclovic unknown 1680 1749 unknown a Serbian priest, writer, poet, orator, philosopher, and illuminator. He was one of the first and... Gabrielle-Charlotte Patin 1666 1680 177 unknown a French numismatist, writer and painter during the 17th century. Granddaughter of medical doctor... 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...
