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The 1680 comet seen from Rotterdam on 29 December 1680 as simulated by Stellarium The comet was discovered by Gottfried Kirch , a German astronomer, on 14 November 1680 ( New Style ), in Coburg , and it became one of the brightest comets of the seventeenth century – reputedly visible even in daytime – and was noted for its spectacularly ...
On 24 March 1680, Shaftesbury told the Privy Council he had received news that the Roman Catholics of Ireland were about to launch a rebellion, backed by the French. Several Privy Councillors, including Henry Coventry , thought Shaftesbury was making this story up to inflame public opinion, so an investigation was launched.
As the threat of French invasion continued throughout the seventeenth century, Adamson was tasked with updating the 16th-century treatise by Thomas Digges, Muster Master-General to Queen Elizabeth's forces in the Low Countries, compromised by being leaked to the Earl of Leicester shortly before the Spanish attempted invasion of England in 1588.
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The Burying in Woollen Acts 1666–80 were acts of the Parliament of England (citation 18 & 19 Cha. 2.c. 4 (1666), [1] [2] 30 Cha. 2.c. 3 (1678) [3] and 32 Cha. 2.c. 1 (1680) [4]) which required the dead, except plague victims and the destitute, to be buried in pure English woollen shrouds to the exclusion of any foreign textiles.
Royal statutes, etc. issued before the development of Parliament. 1225–1267; 1275–1307; 1308–1325; Temp. incert. 1327–1376; 1377–1397; 1399–1411
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The patent salary was £400 from 1661 to 1680 and 20 shillings a day thereafter, except for the years 1702–07 when it was fixed at 10 shillings a day. [ 3 ] The office of Paymaster of the Forces was abolished in 1836 and superseded with the formation of the post of Paymaster General .