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In 1583, Thomas Stephens, an English Jesuit missionary in Goa, in a letter to his brother that was not published until the 20th century, noted similarities between Indian languages, specifically Konkani, and Greek and Latin.
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In 1583 he got into serious trouble because of his association with Lord Thomas Paget, who was suspected of involvement in the Throckmorton Plot, and for sending money to Catholics abroad.
Important composers included William Byrd ( 1543 – 1623 ), John Dowland ( 1563 – 1626 ) Thomas Campion ( 1567 – 1620 ), and Robert Johnson ( c. 1583 – c.
University printing did not actually begin in Cambridge until the first practising University Printer, Thomas Thomas, had been appointed in 1583, nearly fifty years after the grant of the Letters Patent.
Sir Thomas Smith's book * De Republica Anglorum ; the Manner of Government or Policie of the Realme of England, written between 1562 and 1565, was first published in 1583.
Thomas Radclyffe ( or Ratclyffe ) 3rd Earl of Sussex ( c. 1525 – 9 June 1583 ) was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland during the Tudor period of English history, and a leading courtier during the reign of Elizabeth I.
In the mid 16th century the 2nd Earl of Pembroke used the castle as a manorial court, but in 1583 the castle was leased to Thomas Lewis, who accelerated the castles dilapidation by removing stonework to build his nearby manor, The Van.
Son of Thomas Osbaldeston, and nephew of Edward Osbaldeston, of Osbaldeston Hall, near Blackburn, Lancashire, he went to the English College of Douai, then at Reims, where he was ordained deacon in December, 1583, and priest 21 September 1585.
Thomas Digges married Anne, daughter of Warham St Leger ; and was the father of Sir Dudley Digges ( 1583 – 1639 ), politician and statesman, and Leonard Digges ( 1588 – 1635 ), poet.
Thomas Erastus ( September 7, 1524 – December 31, 1583 ) was a Swiss physician and theologian best known for a posthumously published work in which he argued that the sins of Christians should be punished by the state, and not by the church withholding the sacraments.
Bynneman died in 1583, leaving a widow and several children, one of whom, Christopher, was in 1600 apprenticed to Thomas Dawson.
1583 and English
* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( 1583 – 1648 ) is generally considered the " father of English Deism ," and his book De Veritate ( 1624 ) the first major statement of deism.
* August 20 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher ( b. 1583 )
The English, lead by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, had claimed St. John's, Newfoundland in 1583 as the first North American English colony by royal prerogative of Queen Elizabeth I.
* Josias Simler's Oratio, published in 1563 and translated into English in 1583, is the basis of subsequent accounts of Vermigli, though it has been amended somewhat by recent studies, especially by Philip McNair's work, Peter Martyr in Italy.
Philip Stubbs, an English pamphleteer, wrote in his 1583 book " The Anatomie of Abuses " that " the word pussie is now used of a woman ".
" The work of Las Casas was first cited in English with the 1583 publication The Spanish Colonie, or Brief Chronicle of the Actes and Gestes of the Spaniards in the West Indies, at a time when England and Spain were preparing for war in the Netherlands.
At the beginning of 1583, Stanley was sent back to Ireland to deal with the rebel Geraldines of Desmond, and was appointed by the Earl of Ormond as commander of the garrison at Lismore ; he was also constable of Castlemaine, which he intended to " make a town of English ".
The six year exploration license Gilbert had secured by letters patent from the crown in 1578 was on the point of expiring, when he succeeded in 1583 in raising significant sums from English Catholic investors.
Once this resistance was overcome, Gilbert waved his letters patent about and, in a formal ceremony, took possession of Newfoundland ( including the lands 200 leagues to the north and south ) for the English crown on 5 August 1583.
The last trial by combat under the authority of an English monarch is thought to have taken place during the reign of Elizabeth I in the inner courtyard of Dublin Castle in Ireland on 7 September 1583.
Orlando Gibbons ( baptised 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625 ) was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods.
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