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Events from the
1610s in
England .
Incumbents
Events
1610
9 February – Parliament assembles and debates the
Great Contract proposed by
Robert Cecil whereby in return for an annual grant of £200,000, the Crown should give up its
feudal rights of
Wardship and
Purveyance , as well as
New Impositions .
[1]
23 May – the
House of Commons petitions King
James I against imposed duties.
[2]
9 July –
Arbella Stuart , a claimant to the throne, imprisoned for marrying
William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset , another claimant, on 22 June.
[3]
23 July – Parliament prorogued.
[1]
3 August –
Henry Hudson leads an expedition to
Hudson Bay .
[3]
20 September –
Case of Proclamations rules that the monarch cannot make decisions by proclamation unsupported by legislation.
16 October – Parliament assembles.
[1]
6 December – Parliament prorogued and does not assemble again until 1614.
[1]
December –
Thomas Harriot becomes one of the first astronomers to observe
sunspots .
[2]
Winter – the decision in
Dr. Bonham's Case asserts the supremacy of the
common law .
Stained glass windows installed in the chapel of
Hatfield House by
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury , are the first in the country since the start of the
English Reformation .
[4]
First performance of
Ben Jonson 's satirical comedy
The Alchemist .
[2]
First performance of
William Shakespeare 's late romance
Cymbeline .
[3]
The first edition of
William Camden 's antiquarian chorography Britannia in
English is published in an enlarged translation by
Philemon Holland .
1611
4 March –
George Abbot enthroned as
Archbishop of Canterbury .
2 May – the
Authorized King James Version of the
Bible is published,
[2] printed in London by
Robert Barker .
11 May – first recorded performance of
Shakespeare 's
The Winter's Tale , probably new this year,
[3] by the
King's Men at the
Globe Theatre in London.
22 May – the first hereditary
baronets are created by
letters patent from the King, largely as a means of funding the army.
[2]
Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave in
Suffolk becomes the premier
baronet of England .
22 June – the crew of
Henry Hudson 's ship
Discovery mutiny leaving him adrift in
Hudson Bay .
[5]
1 November – at
Whitehall Palace in
London ,
William Shakespeare 's romantic comedy and last solo play
The Tempest is performed, perhaps for the first time. The Winter's Tale is presented at Court on 5 November.
John Donne 's poem An Anatomy of the World published.
Ben Jonson's play
Catiline His Conspiracy published.
[2]
Cyril Tourneur 's play
The Atheist's Tragedy published.
[2]
Last known traditional performance of an English
mystery play , at
Kendal .
Thomas Sutton founds
Charterhouse School on the site of the old
Carthusian monastery in
Charterhouse Square ,
Smithfield, London .
1612
1613
14 February –
Elizabeth Stuart , daughter of King James I, marries
Frederick V, Elector Palatine , at the
Chapel Royal in
Whitehall .
[2]
29 June – the original
Globe Theatre in
Southwark is destroyed by a fire started during a performance of the Shakespeare play
Henry VIII .
[5]
6 August – Great fire of
Dorchester, Dorset .
[8]
15 September – death of
Thomas Overbury by poisoning in the
Tower of London , having been imprisoned after quarrelling with
Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester .
[1]
29 September – the
New River (engineered by Sir
Hugh Myddelton ) is opened to supply
London with drinking water from
Hertfordshire .
[2]
3 November –
Robert Carr, Viscount Rochester , is created Earl of Somerset.
[2]
23 December – marriage of the Earl of Somerset to
Frances Howard ,
[1] occasioning
John Donne 's Eclogue .
English colonists destroy a French settlement at
Port Royal, Nova Scotia .
[2]
The King condemns
duels in his proclamation Against Private Challenges and Combats .
Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland 's
closet drama
The Tragedy of Mariam is published.
1614
5 April – Parliament assembles for the first time since 1610 and debates the imposition of taxes by the King.
[1]
7 June – King James dissolves the
Addled Parliament for refusing to impose new taxes.
[5]
June – King James raises money through a Benevolence; non-contributors are arraigned before the
Court of Star Chamber .
[3]
31 October – first performance of Ben Jonson's
Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy ;
[3] it receives a Court performance the following day.
1615
1616
1 January –
King James attends the
masque
The Golden Age Restored , a satire by
Ben Jonson on fallen court favorite the
Earl of Somerset . The king asks for a repeat performance on 4 January.
3 January – the King's current favourite
Sir George Villiers is appointed
Master of the Horse ;
[2] on 24 April he receives the
Order of the Garter ; and on 27 August is created Viscount Villiers and Baron Waddon, receiving a grant of land valued at £80,000.
10 January – English
diplomat Sir
Thomas Roe presents his
credentials to the
Mughal Emperor
Jahangir in
Ajmer , opening the door to the
British presence in India .
[9]
1 February – King James grants
Ben Jonson an annual pension of 100
marks , making him de facto
poet laureate .
[11]
11 March –
Roman Catholic
priest
Thomas Atkinson is
hanged, drawn, and quartered at
York , at age 70.
[12]
19 March – Sir
Walter Ralegh is released from the
Tower of London , where he has been imprisoned for treason, to organise an expedition to
El Dorado .
[5]
26 March–30 August –
William Baffin makes a detailed exploration of
Baffin Bay whilst searching for the
Northwest Passage .
[13]
23 April – playwright and poet
William Shakespeare dies (on or about his 52nd birthday) in retirement in
Stratford-upon-Avon and is buried two days later in the
Church of the Holy Trinity there.
25 April – Sir
John Coke , in the
Court of King's Bench , holds the King's actions in a case of
In commendam to be illegal.
25 May – the King's former favourite the
Earl of Somerset and his wife
Frances are convicted of the murder of
Thomas Overbury . They are spared death and are sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London.
[1]
[14]
12 June –
Pocahontas (now Rebecca) arrives in England, with her husband,
John Rolfe ,
[13]
[15] their one-year-old son,
Thomas Rolfe , her half-sister Matachanna (alias Cleopatra) and brother-in-law
Tomocomo , the
shaman also known as Uttamatomakkin (having set out in May). Ten
Powhatan
Indians are brought by Sir
Thomas Dale , the colonial governor, at the request of the
Virginia Company , as a fund-raising device. Dale, having been recalled under criticism, writes A True Relation of the State of Virginia, Left by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, in May last, 1616 , in a successful effort to redeem his leadership but neither Dale nor Pocahontas see Virginia again.
July – King James begins to raise revenue by the sale of
peerages .
[3]
October
October/November –
Ben Jonson 's satirical five-act comedy
The Devil is an Ass is produced at the
Blackfriars Theatre by the
King's Men , poking fun at credence in witchcraft and Middlesex juries.
[17]
4 November –
Prince Charles , the 15-year-old surviving son of King James and
Anne of Denmark , is invested as
Prince of Wales at Whitehall, the last such formal investiture until
1911 .
5 November – Bishop
Lancelot Andrewes preaches the annual
Gunpowder Treason sermon before the King at
Whitehall , both having been intended victims of the plot.
6/25 November –
Ben Jonson 's works are published in a collected
folio edition; the first of any English playwright.
[3]
[18]
14 November – Sir
Edward Coke is dismissed as
Chief Justice of the King's Bench by royal prerogative.
25 December
Epidemic typhus outbreak.
Witch trials under the
Witchcraft Act 1603 : Elizabeth Rutter is
hanged as a witch in
Middlesex , Agnes Berrye in
Enfield , and nine women in
Leicester at a
summer assize presided over by Sir
Humphrey Winch .
[20]
Inigo Jones designs the
Queen's House at
Greenwich
[13] as the first major example of
classical architecture in the country (work is suspended in 1619 and resumed 1630–38).
The
Anchor Brewery is established in London by James Monger next to the
Globe Theatre in
Southwark ; it will be the world's largest by the early nineteenth century and brew until the 1970s.
[21]
Publications:
1617
1618
1619
Births
1610
1611
1612
1613
1614
1615
1616
23 January –
Ralph Josselin , vicar of Earls Colne in Essex (died
1683 )
June –
John Thurloe , secretary to the council of state in Protectorate England and spymaster for Oliver Cromwell (died
1668 )
August –
William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford , peer and soldier (died
1700 )
17 September (bapt.) –
Obadiah Walker , academic and Master of University College, Oxford from 1676 to 1688 (died
1699 )
18 October –
Nicholas Culpeper , botanist (died
1654 )
23 November –
John Wallis , mathematician (died
1703 )
17 December –
Roger L'Estrange , pamphleteer and author (died
1704 )
Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont , Royalist (died
1656 )
Thomas Harrison , puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (died
1660 )
William Holder , music theorist (died
1698 )
John Owen , Nonconformist church leader and theologian (died
1683 )
Edward Sexby , Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell (died
1658 )
1617
1619
Deaths
1610
1611
Henry Hudson , sea explorer and navigator (lost at sea) (born c. 1565?)
1612
9 January – Sir
Leonard Holliday , a founder of the East India Company and a Lord Mayor of London (born c. 1550?)
15 January –
Hadrian à Saravia , theologian (born 1532 in the Spanish Netherlands)
11 April –
Edward Wightman , Baptist preacher (burned at the stake) (born
1566 )
24 May –
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury , statesman and spymaster (born
1563 )
4 August –
Hugh Broughton , scholar (born
1549 )
6 November –
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales , heir to the throne (born 1594 in Scotland)
12 November –
Sir John Harington , courtier, writer and inventor of a flush toilet (born
1561 )
1613
1614
1615
1616
1617
1618
7 June –
Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , Governor of Virginia (born
1577 )
20 July –
James Montague , bishop and academic (born
1568 )
28 September –
Joshua Sylvester , poet (born
1563 )
29 October – Sir
Walter Ralegh , soldier, politician, courtier, explorer, historian, poet and spy (executed) (born
1552 or 1554)
1619
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