In the Flight of the Earls, Gaelic earls lost a fortune of gold down at the Devil's Bridge crossing ravine on St Patrick's Day in 1608.

A second quarto, a reprint of Q1, was published in 1602 by Pavier ; another reprint was issued as Q3 in 1619, with a false date of 1608 — part of William Jaggard's False Folio.

Peter Rothe ( Petrus Roth ), in his book Arithmetica Philosophica ( published in 1608 ), wrote that a polynomial equation of degree n ( with real coefficients ) may have n solutions.

Shakespeare's earlier version, The True Chronicle of the History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters, was published in quarto in 1608.

Title page of the first quarto edition, published in 1608

The modern text of King Lear derives from three sources: two quartos, published in 1608 ( Q < sub > 1 </ sub >) and 1619 ( Q < sub > 2 </ sub >) respectively, and the version in the First Folio of 1623 ( F < sub > 1 </ sub >).

The New Cambridge Shakespeare has published separate editions of Q and F ; the most recent Pelican Shakespeare edition contains both the 1608 Quarto and the 1623 Folio text as well as a conflated version ; the New Arden edition edited by R. A. Foakes is not the only recent edition to offer the traditional conflated text.

The fourth quarto, published in 1608, includes a version of the deposition scene shorter than the one later printed, presumably from a prompt-book, in the 1623 First Folio.

In 1650, Lilly wrote a preface to Sir Christopher Heydon's An Astrological Discourse with Mathematical Demonstrations, a defence of astrology written about 1608 which was first published posthumously, largely at the expense of Elias Ashmole.

He first published ( 1608 ) an edition of a work by Nilus Cabasilas, ( archbishop of Thessalonica in the 14th century ) against the primacy of the pope ( De primatu Papae ), and an edition of a similar tract by the Calabrian monk Barlaam of Seminara ( ca.

The Compendium Maleficarum ( 1608 ), by Francesco Maria Guazzo, aka Guaccio, Guaccius is a book published by an Italian priest with some illustrations of what he imagined could be a Sabbat, and gives a description of it ; a brief summary can be cited as an example: " the attendants go riding flying goats, trample the cross, are made to be re-baptised in the name of the Devil, give their clothes to him, kiss the Devil's behind, and dance back to back forming a round ".

It was these direct experiences that inspired Guazzo to write his Compendium Maleficarum which was published in 1608 and was widely regarded among his contemporaries as the authoritative manuscript on Witchcraft.

It was published in his book Compendium Maleficarum in 1608.

However it may be, Wilkins published in 1608 a novel entitled The Painful Adventures of Pericles, Prynce of Tyre, described as " the true history of Pericles as it was lately presented by ... John Gower " ( who serves as narrator in the play ).

It was probably written sometime between 1608 and 1616, but not published till 1641.

The first of the works by which he is known was published anonymously in 1608, with the title Ciceronis Princeps, a laborious compilation of all Cicero's remarks on the origin and principles of regal government, digested and systematically arranged.

Moreover, a third related work is The Painful Adventures of Pericles by George Wilkins, published in 1608.

: First published: version of the play published in quarto in 1608 as The true chronicle historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three daughters.

In 1608, Wilkins published a prose narrative of Pericles which contains several lines that seem to recall specific lines in the play, leading to the conclusion that his editing of the play led him to the composition of the prose.

: First published: 1608, in a quarto issued by bookseller Thomas Pavier.

These include Bussy D ' Ambois ( 1607 ), The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron ( 1608 ), The Revenge of Bussy D ' Ambois ( 1613 ) and The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France ( published 1639 ).

John Day's play Humour Out of Breath, published in 1608, contains a reference to " the lord that gave all to his followers, and begged more for himself " – a possible allusion to Timon that would, if valid, support a date of composition before 1608.

He wrote approximately 230, which he published in sixteen separate books spread across a half-century, from 1558 to the final posthumous collection in 1608.

* 1608 – At Ticonderoga ( now Crown Point, New York ), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs.

It includes two mulberry trees, of which the older was planted in 1608, the same year as Milton's birth.

Captain John Smith led two expeditions up the Chesapeake Bay in 1608 and 1609.

There is a note from 1608, where in Annibale stipulates to a pupil that he will spend at least two hours a day in his studio.

Parliaments were held in the borough in 1272, 1296 and 1446, but the borough was not represented until 1608, when James I conferred on it the privilege of sending two members.

After two failed attempts to settle in Acadia, in 1608, Québec City was founded by Samuel de Champlain, giving the Church a solid base in which to spread the faith to the Indigenous populations.

In 1608, the Yaqui and 2, 000 Indian allies, mostly Mayo, were victorious over the Spanish in two battles.

In 1608 he was sent to search for two mythical islands called Rico de Oro ( island of gold ) and Rico de Plata ( island of silver ).

He was succeeded in the two lordships of Bruce and Kinloss ( created in 1604 and 1608 ) and the earldom of Elgin by his kinsman the ninth Earl of Kincardine ( see Earl of Elgin and Earl of Kincardine for later history of these peerages ).

Following a later agreement in 1608 by James I, the two Inns were granted the use of the church in perpetuity, and continue to use the Temple as their chapel, on condition that they supported and maintained the church.

The two aquamarine stones with cut surfaces on the back of the diadem were added as replacements by King Matthias II ( 1608 – 1619 ).

The 1977 Priory document claimed Saunière discovered three documents: 1 ) a genealogy of the Counts of Rhedae dated 1243 bearing the seal of Blanche of Castile, 2 ) a document of 1608 relating to François-Pierre d ' Hautpoul providing a complementary genealogy from 1240 onwards and, 3 ) a last will and testament of Henri d ' Hautpoul dated 24 April 1695 bearing the stamp and signature of the testator, adding they were originally sold by Saunière's niece Madame James to two Englishmen, Captain Ronald Stansmore and Sir Thomas Frazer of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.

Popham is credited with maintaining the stability of the British State, and for being one of the " real colonisers " of the British Empire ; hosting two Wabanaki tribesmen kidnapped on the Maine coast in 1605, subsequently funding and orchestrating the aborted Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec River, Maine ( 1607 – 1608 ).

In that respect it must have resembled Four Plays, or Moral Representations, in One, from c. 1608 – 13, a play in the John Fletcher canon in which Fletcher wrote the last two parts of the quartet, while another playwright, most likely Nathan Field, wrote the others.

The earliest manuscripts are two versions that date from about 1608, are written in German and are now found in Wolfenbüttel.

She married the Earl in 1608 and had two sons, Henry and Francis, who both died in infancy, supposedly via witchcraft.

His works include fourteen published operas of which two survive, La Flora ( 1628 ) set to a libretto by Andrea Salvadori and Dafne ( 1608 ).

Despite the delivery of supplies in 1608 on the First and Second Supply missions of Captain Christopher Newport, it seemed certain, at that time, that without a major relief effort, the colony at Jamestown would meet the same fate as two earlier failed English attempts to settle in North America, the Roanoke Colony and the Popham Colony.

Between 1608 and 1640 there were often two Secretaries, which became normal practice after 1680, although only one could sit in Parliament.

On 20 August 1608 the two reached and agreement:

A set of madrigals by him appeared in 1598 and a second in 1608, the two sets containing sixty-four pieces.

To sum up, the map in Pont's ' Cuninghame ' of 1604-8 shows two buildings, " Reuincraige " and " Corshill ", at approximately NS 417 467 and NS 422 465 respectively, and Dobie ( 1876 ) comments that the two have often been confused, but that " Reuincraig " stood on the W of the Corsehill Burn and " Corsehill Mansion " on its E. " Reuincraig ", he says, was so modernised about 1840 that it was difficult to realise that it had been ruined in 1608, while the ruins of " Corsehill " were removed about the beginning of the 19th century and only foundations could be traced when he wrote.