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p. 370 1. 36, for Litterae read Epistolae

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p. 396 1. 31, for Hackwell read Hakewill

p. 447 1. 9, for Carew and Ralegh read Carew Ralegh

TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES

1516 More's Utopia.

1527 Death of Machiavelli.

1528 Sedbergh school founded by Roger Lupton.

1532-64 Rabelais's Pantagruel. 1541 The Mercers' school founded. 1547 The Chantries Act. 1551 More's Utopia translated into English.

1552 Wilson's Rule of Reason. 1553 Charter of Christ's Hospital. 1556 Oundle grammar

founded.

school

1599 Death of Spenser.

1601 Grotius's Adamus Exul. 1603-25 James I.

1603 King James's Daemonologie. 1604 Elizabeth's statute against witchcraft superseded by one much more severe.

1605 Sylvester's Du Bartas. 1605 Sir Thomas Browne born (d. 1682).

1605 Gunpowder plot.

1605-15 Don Quixote.

1606 Edmund Waller born (d. 1687). 1606-84 Pierre Corneille.

1607 John Harvard born (d. 1638). 1607 Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem.

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1608

1561 Merchant Taylors' school founded.

1608

1608

1562 First register of admissions,

Shrewsbury school.

1567 Lawrence Sheriff founds Rugby school.

1571 John Lyon founds Harrow school.

1572 Parker founds Society of Antiquaries.

1575 University of Leyden founded. 1580 Montaigne's Essays (1st ed.). 1584 Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft.

1588 Thomas Hobbes born (d. 1679). 1588-1609 Baronius's Annales. 1591 Robert Herrick born (d. 1674). 1592 Francis Quarles born (d. 1644). 1593 Izaak Walton born (d. 1683). 1593 Gifford's Dialogues of Witches. 1593 George Herbert born (d. 1633). 1596 Spenser's Veue of the Present State of Ireland.

1599 Sir John Davies's Nosce Teipsum.

Thomas Fuller born (d. 1661). John Milton born (d. 1674). Perkins's Discoverie of the damned Art of Witch craft.

1609 Sir John Suckling born (d. 1642).

1609 Edward Hyde, first earl of Clarendon, born (d. 1674). 1609 Grotius's Mare liberum. 1609 Sir Thomas Overbury's Observations (ptd 1626).

1609 Death of Joseph Scaliger. 1610-13 Chrysostom printed at Sir Henry Savile's press, Eton. 1611 Authorised Version. 1611 Sir Thomas Urquhart born (? d. 1660).

1611 Charterhouse school founded by Thomas Sutton.

1612 1612

Death of prince Henry.

Sir John Davies's Discoverie... why Ireland was not entirely subdued.

1612 (?) Richard Crashaw born (d. 1649).

1613 Andreini's Adamo.

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1620 The Pilgrim Fathers land in fl. 1636-65 P. Calderon de La Barca.

New England.

1620 Lucy Hutchinson born.

1620 Bacon's Novum Organum. 1621 Henry Vaughan born (d. 1695). 1621 Andrew Marvell born (d. 1678). 1622 Bacon's Henry VII. 1622

Thomas Archer and Nicholas Bourne issue periodicals dealing with foreign wars.

1622 Peacham's Compleat Gentle

man.

1623 Campanella's Civitas Solis. 1623 First folio of Shakespeare. 1624 Lord Herbert of Cherbury's De Veritate.

1625-49 King Charles I.

1625 Grotius's De Jure Belli et Pacis.

1625 The Plague in London.

1626 First complete ed. of George Sandys's Ovid.

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1640 Thomas Carew's Poems. 1627 Bacon's New Atlantis pub- 1640 Meeting of the Long parlia lished.

ment.

1627 Hakewill's Power and Provi- 1640 Busby becomes headmaster of dence of God.

1628 Selden's Marmora Arundel

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Westminster.

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1642 Unauthorised edition of Religio 1653 Gracian's Oráculo Manual.

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1643-6 R. C.'s Mercurius Civicus, the first illustrated journal. 1644 Milton's Areopagitica and Education.

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1656

Harrington's Oceana.

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1656 Cowley's collected works.

1657 The Whole Duty of Man. 1657 Brian Walton's Biblia Sacra Polyglotta.

1657 Henry King's Poems. 1657 Ninon's salon in Paris. 1658 Browne's Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus. 1659-80 Rushworth's Collections. 1659 The Rota meets at Miles's coffee-house.

1659 Chamberlayne's Pharonnida. 1659 Osborne's Sundry Essayes. 1659 Pearson's Exposition of the Creed.

1659 Molière's Les Précieuses Ridicules.

1659 Henry Muddiman's Parliamentary Intelligencer.

1660 The Restoration.

1660 Falkland's Discourse of Infallibility.

1660 Jeremy Taylor's

Dubitantium.

Ductor

1660 Pepys begins his Diary. 1660-76 Poole's Synopsis Criticorum

Bibliorum.

1661 Glanvill's Vanity of Dogmatizing.

1661 Heylyn's Ecclesia Restaurata. 1662 Fuller's Worthies.

1662 Incorporation of the Royal Society.

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