The lion emblem originates from a 17th-century fresco in the brewing house, depicting Daniel in the lions ' den.

A 17th-century fresco from the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral | Cathedral of Living Pillar in Georgia ( country ) | Georgia depicting Jesus within the Zodiac circle

The body of trustees decided on a converted 17th-century mansion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for £ 20, 000.

Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, a 17th-century English jurist and Member of Parliament, wrote several legal texts that formed the basis for the modern common law, with lawyers in both England and America learning their law from his Institutes and Reports until the end of the 18th century.

Altogether more than 1, 250, 000 deaths resulted from the extreme incidence of plague in 17th-century Spain.

A 17th-century Nordic scholar, Torfaeus, compared the Icelandic hero Amlodi and the Spanish hero Prince Ambales ( from the Ambales Saga ) to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

The United States largely inherited its traditions relating to ham and pork from 17th-century Britain and 18th-century France, the latter especially in Louisiana.

He borrowed it from the writings of the 16th-century chronicler John Mair or a 17th-century ballad presumably to make the plot of his novel more gripping.

The concept was also an important aspect of the more radical 17th-century republican tradition of Spinoza, from whom Rousseau differed in important respects, but not in his insistence on the importance of equality.

In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad " The Bonny Earl O ' Moray ".

1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French name.

Grettir is ready to fight in this illustration from a 17th-century Iceland ic manuscript

It has a large church dating from the 15th century, an impressive City Hall ( built as such ) from the 16th century, several large 17th-century palaces, a 17th-century Protestant church built in what was then a modern style, and many important 18th-century buildings.

The problem of discipline was made more difficult by the ad hoc nature of 17th-century military financing ; armies were expected to be largely self-funding, by means of loot taken or tribute extorted from the settlements where they operated.

In England, Plotinus was the cardinal influence on the 17th-century school of the Cambridge Platonists, and on numerous writers from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to W. B. Yeats and Kathleen Raine.

The word was adapted from Italian minuetto and French menuet, and may have been from French menu meaning slender, small, referring to the very small steps, or from the early 17th-century popular group dances called branle à mener or amener.

The name may refer to the short steps, pas menus, taken in the dance, or else be derived from the branle à mener or amener, popular group dances in early 17th-century France ( Little 2001 ).

The O ' Donnells were Ulster's second most powerful clan or ruling-family from the early 13th-century through to the start of the 17th-century.

In 17th-century Leiden, for instance, people opening their homes to services could be fined 200 guilders ( a year's wage for a skilled tradesman ) and banned from the city Throughout this, however, personal freedom of religion did exist, and was one factor – along with economic reasons – in causing large immigration of religious refugees from other parts of Europe.

For instance, in The Tempest, Shakespeare borrowed from a manuscript by William Strachey that detailed an actual shipwreck of the Virginia-bound 17th-century English sailing vessel Sea Venture in 1609 on the islands of Bermuda.

17th-century engraving of Scylla ( princess ) | Scylla falling in love with Minos

Gallery of famous 17th-century Puritan theologians: Thomas Gouge, William Bridge, Thomas Manton, John Flavel, Richard Sibbes, Stephen Charnock, William Bates ( Puritan ) | William Bates, John Owen ( theologian ) | John Owen, John Howe ( Puritan ) | John Howe, Richard Baxter.

The tower of Ostrog ( fortress ) | ostrog, a 17th-century Russian fort, in Yakutsk.

A 17th-century Italian map showing a large " Kingdom of Barantola or Boutan " bordering on Nepal and Tibet, as well as, surprisingly, Yunnan, Sichuan, and the Western Xia | Kingdom of Tanguts

African slaves working in 17th-century Colony of Virginia | Virginia, by an unknown artist, 1670

17th-century engraving of William Sommers | Will Sommers, Henry VIII of England | Henry VIII's jester

17th-century relief with a Labyrinth | Cretan labyrinth bottom right ( Musée Antoine Vivenel )

17th-century engraving of Nisos's daughter Scylla ( princess ) | Scylla falling in love with his enemy Minos.

Image: 070215 Tournai ( 9 ). JPG | a 17th-century house

File: Cromer graveyard. JPG | 17th-century gravestone in the churchyard at Cromer

Rembrandt, Artemisia ( Rembrandt ) | Artemisia, oil on canvas ( 1634 ). The Museo del Prado possesses almost 200 paintings of the 17th-century Dutch School.

The heroic suicide of Porcia Catonis | Porcia, daughter of Cato the Younger | Cato and wife of Marcus Brutus | Brutus, as pictured by the 17th-century painter Elisabetta Sirani

However, Chesterton Windmill | this 17th-century windmill near Chesterton, England, shares many characteristics with the Newport Tower

Murasaki Shikibu is depicted in formal Heian-era twelve-layered Jūnihitoe | kimono in this 17th-century illustration by Tosa Mitsuoki.

File: Wildermann thaler. jpg | 17th-century Thaler coin from Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel with the traditional wild-man design on coins from the mints in the Harz Mountains

André Le Nôtre | Le Nôtre's central axis of the Tuileries ' parterre s in a late 17th-century engraving

A 17th-century Epitaphios ( liturgical ) | epitaphios from Fyodorovskaya Church in Yaroslavl

The first Royal Exchange, London | Royal Exchange in London, 17th-century depiction

Today's architectural ensemble includes the Saviour Cathedral ( originally constructed in 1660-1661 ; rebuilt in 1717 – 1720 and 1742 ) and several 17th-century chambers as well former school building which dates to 1822.

While Wesley freely made use of the term " Arminian ," he did not self-consciously root his soteriology in the theology of Arminius but was highly influenced by 17th-century English Arminianism and thinkers such as John Goodwin, Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond of the Anglican " Holy Living " school, and the Remonstrant Hugo Grotius.

The Countess Pillar is a 17th-century monument near Brougham, Cumbria, England, between Penrith and Appleby.