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Several fragments of the correspondence were printed in Letters to several Persons of Honour (1651), and over forty of these letters are printed in Edmund Gosse's Life of Donne, 1899. [9] A verse letter "to Sir Henry Goodyere" was written by Donne during his residence at Mitcham (1606–10). Goodyer constantly needed encouragement, for his ...
The British Parliament, however, asserted in 1765 that it held supreme authority to lay taxes, and a series of American protests began that led directly to the American Revolution. The first wave of protests attacked the Stamp Act of 1765, and marked the first time that Americans met together from each of the 13 colonies and planned a common ...
The Book of the Courtier was one of the most widely distributed books of the 16th century, with editions printed in six languages and in twenty European centers. [4] The 1561 English translation by Thomas Hoby had a great influence on the English upper class's conception of English gentlemen. [5]
Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset by William Larkin. The Somerset Masque, sometimes known as The Squire's Masque, [1] was written by Thomas Campion and performed on 26 December 1613 at the old Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace, to celebrate the wedding of Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and Frances Howard.
He was an English courtier of Welsh descent. [1] Map claimed that he was a man of the Welsh Marches (marchio sum Walensibus);. [2] He was probably born in Herefordshire, but his studies and employment took him to Canterbury, Paris, Rome and to several royal and noble courts of Western Europe. The book takes the form of a series of anecdotes of ...
The first documented settlement of Europeans in the Americas was established by Norse people around 1000 AD in what is now Newfoundland, called Vinland by the Norse. Later European exploration of North America resumed with Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition sponsored by Spain. English settlement began almost a century later.
A man of the world, with a large circle of courtly acquaintances, including Gerald of Wales, "Map had a contemporary reputation as a wit and story teller." [12] His only surviving work, De Nugis Curialium (Trifles of Courtiers) is a collection of anecdotes and trivia, containing court gossip and a little real history, and written in a satirical vein.
In the Haven of St. John the third day of August written in hast 1527, by your servant John Rut to his uttermost of his power. [2] After leaving Newfoundland for warmer climes, Mary Guilford sailed along the east coast, past the Chesapeake Bay to Florida, [3] apparently the first English ship to do so. Rut returned to England the following year ...