In 1607 and 1608, the English Muscovy Company had sent him northward to look for a route over the North Pole or across the top of Russia.

* 1608 – The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.

* 1608 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier ( d. 1670 )

* 1608 – John Milton, English poet ( d. 1674 )

* John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ), English poet

* 1674 – John Milton, English poet ( b. 1608 )

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 ).

* August 16 – Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian ( b. 1608 )

* January 3 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier ( b. 1608 )

** Edmund Whitelocke, English soldier and courtier ( d. 1608 )

** Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet ( d. 1608 )

* December 16 – Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician ( b. c. 1608 )

* November 8 – John Milton, English Puritan poet noted for Paradise Lost and other works including Lycidas ; On His Blindness ; L ’ Allegro ; On The Late Massacre In Piedmont ; Paradise Regained ( b. 1608 )

* July 13 – John Dee, English mathematician, astronomer, and geographer ( d. 1608 )

** George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle ( 1608 – 1670 ), English soldier, naval officer and statesman

When Captain John Smith and other English explorers came to the upper Potomac River beginning in 1608, they reported that the area within present Prince William County was occupied by the Doeg tribe.

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.

Site of the Popham Colony, Phippsburg was — between 1607 and 1608 — the first English settlement attempted in New England.

The French followed the English to the New World, and settled Quebec in 1608.

Thomas Fuller ( 1608 – 16 August 1661 ) was an English churchman and historian.

The Mundus alter was translated into English by John Healey ( 1608 – 9 ) as The Discovery of a New World or A Description of the South Indies by an English Mercury.

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG ( 6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670 ) was an English soldier and politician and a key figure in the restoration of Charles II.

George Goring, Lord Goring ( 14 July 1608 – 1657 ) was an English Royalist soldier.

** William Barclay, Scottish jurist ( d. 1608 )

William Barclay ( 1546 – 1608 ) was a Scottish jurist.

Albericus Gentilis ) ( January 14, 1552 – June 19, 1608 ) was an Italian jurist.

Sir Thomas Craig ( c. 1538 – 26 February 1608 ) was a Scottish jurist and poet.

If new Shakespearean plays were being written especially for presentation at the Blackfriars ' theatre after 1608, they could not have been written by Edward de Vere.

** Edward Misselden, Mercantilist writer ( born 1608 )

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

In 1608 he married Magdalen Herbert, widow of Richard Herbert, and mother of ten children, including George Herbert the poet, and Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury.

Captain John Underhill was one of three children of John Edward Underhill ( 1574 – 1608 ) and Leonora Honor Pawley.

* Edward Rainbowe ( 1608 – 1684 ), Bishop of Carlisle

Amphiptere by Edward Topsell ( 1608 )

Edward Rainbowe or Rainbow ( 1608 – 1684 ) was an English clergyman and a noted preacher.

* John Edward Underhill ( 1574 – 1608 ), English diplomat and exile

Cavendish married Christian ( a ) Bruce, daughter of Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss, on 10 April 1608.

The eldest of these sons was Edward Seymour ( 1561-1612 ), styled Lord Beauchamp notwithstanding the question as to his legitimacy, who in 1608 obtained a patent declaring that, after his father's death he should become earl of Hertford.

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.

In 1608, Edmund Tilney wrote a memorandum on the Office that offers a vivid picture of its operation.

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.

Sir Francis Bacon in 1592 wrote in a letter that his " vast contemplative ends " expressed his " philanthropia ", and his 1608 essay On Goodness defined his subject as " the affecting of the weale of men ... what the Grecians call philanthropia ".

Also a popular comic author, he wrote a comedy, The History of the Two Maids of More-clacke, as well as Foole upon Foole, A Nest of Ninnies ( 1608 ) and The Italian Taylor and his Boy.

Champlain wrote of a youth who had been living in New France since 1608, and whom many believe to have been young Brûlé.

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.

On November 26, 1608, Peter Wynne, a member of Captain Christopher Newport's exploration party to the villages of the Eastern Siouan Monacan above the falls of the James River in Virginia, wrote a letter to John Egerton, informing him that some members of Newport's party believed the pronunciation of the Monacans ' language resembled " Welch ", which Wynne spoke, and asked Wynne to act as interpreter.

Timothy Pont, who had seen the cartulary of the abbey, now lost, wrote in 1608 that the date was 1191 and Richard de Morville was the founder ; he was probably right about the founder, but Richard was dead by 1189.

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.

He wrote about his experiences in a book entitled Journey from Bohemia to the Holy Land, by way of Venice and the Sea which was published in Prague in 1608.

In 1290 he wrote Ha-Nefesh ha-Hakhamah, or Ha-Mishqal ( Basel, 1608, and frequently found in manuscript ), which shows even greater cabalistic tendencies.

Among the company's most important members were Christopher Beeston, its manager, and Thomas Heywood, the actor-dramatist who wrote many of its plays, including The Rape of Lucrece ( printed 1608 ) and The Golden Age ( printed 1611 ).

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.

On November 26, 1608, Peter Wynne, a member of Newport's exploration party to the Monacan villages, wrote a letter to John Egerton, informing him that some members of Newport's party believed the pronunciation of the Monacans ' language resembled " Welch ", which Wynne spoke, and asked Wynne to act as interpreter.

With his son, Masanobu, he wrote a manual of construction and building design, Shoumei ( 匠明 ) in 1608.