He went so far in 1608 as to sign a commercial treaty with Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany containing secret military clauses.

Instead, he practiced law for a while in Seville, then in 1608 went back to Mexico, and in 1609 received the licentiate from the University of Mexico.

Johnston is thought to have begun his university studies at one, or both, of the colleges at Aberdeen, but around 1608 he went to Italy and received an M. D.

In August 1608, he went with Chichester to view the escheated lands, reporting that the people, " wondered as much to see the king's deputy as the ghosts in Vurgil wondered to see AEneas alive in hell ".

After taking his BA degree from St Mary Hall, Oxford, in 1608, he went into Cheshire to act as tutor to the children of Lady Cholmondeley.

In 1621 he fell out with his brother Henri II, who had become Duke in 1608, and went to Germany for the emperor to fight the Protestants.

In 1608 he went to Venice to take part in the Festival of San Rocco.

In 1608 he went to Prague, and in 1609 became the physician and imperial counsellor of Rudolf II.

In 1608 he went travelling with Degory Wheare.

" To John Copleston, Esquire, lord of this manor, a man famed as greatly for true virtue as noble descent, who after he had reached his 59th year went to sleep gently in Christ at Warleigh, November 9 1608.

He went to the Marshalsea again in 1608, was released in 1614 on bonds of £ 5000 not to leave London, and in 1617 was recommitted to the Tower on the information of his servant, Teige O ' Hurley, alleging his involvement with William Stanley and several exiled Irish Catholic priests and nobles, including Hugh Maguire.

From October 1608 to August 1609 he traveled to the Netherlands and France, staying in Antwerp and Paris.

* Quodlibeta Theologica ( Paris, 1518 ; Venice, 1608 and 1613 ).

After having taught rhetoric at Paris he resided for a long time in Rome as secretary to Claudio Acquaviva ( 1590 – 1608 ).

After her mother's death in 1591, Marie moved to Paris, leaving the family home to her brother Charles, who was forced to sell it in 1608.

He joined the Society of Jesus in 1608 and was ordained priest in Paris in 1610.

Les Premieres d ' Euvres ou satyres de Regnier ( Paris, 1608 ) included the Discours au rol and ten satires.

# Françoise de Lorraine, Duchesse de Mercœur et de Penthièvre ( November 1592 – 8 September 1669, Paris ), married at Fontainebleau on 16 July 1608 César de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme.

He was established in practice in Paris in 1598 and was promoted to court architect in 1608.

Robles, the Madrid publisher, found it necessary to meet demand with a third edition, a seventh publication in all, in 1608.

The largest settlement was New France, with the towns of Quebec City ( 1608 ) and Montreal ( fur trading post in 1611, Roman Catholic mission established in 1639, and colony founded in 1642 ).

This practical development, mastery, and experimentation with lenses led directly to the invention of the compound optical microscope around 1595, and the refracting telescope in 1608, both of which appeared in the spectacle making centres in the Netherlands.

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) wrote a textbook in logic or dialectic in Latin based on Ramus ' work, which has now been translated into English by Walter J. Ong and Charles J. Ermatinger in The Complete Prose Works of John Milton ( Yale University Press, 1982 ; 8: 206-407 ), with a lengthy introduction by Ong ( 144-205 ).

When the revenue fell short of expectations in 1608, Venice introduced paper with the superscription ' AQ ' and imprinted instructions, which was to be used for ' letters to officials '.

In a second departure attempt in the spring of 1608, arrangements were made with a Dutch merchant to pick up church members along the Humber estuary at Immingham near Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

The roots of ukiyo-e can be traced to the urbanization that took place in the late 16th century that led to the development of a class of merchants and artisans who began writing stories or novels, and painting pictures, compiled in ehon ( 絵本, picture books, books with stories and picture illustrations ), such as the 1608 edition of Tales of Ise by Hon ' ami Kōetsu.

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.

An early description of the opossum comes from explorer John Smith, who wrote in Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion in 1608 that " An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat.

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.

Partially in order to pacify the restless szlachta, Sigismund supported war with Muscovy ( the Dimitriads, 1608 – 1618 ).

The letter received enough circulation to be referred to in one of James's theological essays ( 1608 ), and Bellarmine was soon fencing in a pamphlet exchange with the King of England.

* The Bloody Banquet ( 1608 – 9 ); co-written with Thomas Dekker.

The Native Americans ' first recorded encounter with Europeans in this area was in 1608, with John Smith of the Jamestown Settlement.

Recorded as Palmers grene 1608, ' village green associated with a family called Palmer ' ( mentioned in local records from the 14th century ), from the Middle English grene.

George Chapman's The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron ( 1608 ) was censored when it appeared on the stage, and caused a scandal when the players violated that censorship ; Buck has been associated with the scandal, and it is certainly true that Buck licensed the publication of the censored text later in that year.

Cowbridge Grammar School was founded in 1608 and had close links with Jesus College, Oxford through its later benefactor, Dr Leoline Jenkins.

In 1608, sponsored by Henry IV, Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Quebec with 28 men, the second permanent French settlement in the colony of Canada.

In early January 1608, nearly 100 new settlers arrived with Captain Newport, and through carelessness the village was set on fire.

In October 1608, Captain Newport arrived with 70 new settlers, including the first women.

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.

The year of Jin's birth is unclear, with some sources reporting 1610 and others 1608.

Hans Lippershey is generally credited with the earliest recorded design for an optical telescope ( a refracting telescope ) in 1608, although it is unclear if he invented it.