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In 1624 he was a member of the King's Men, Shakespeare's famous company, and in August of that year played in their notorious production of A Game at Chess — yet in the same year he worked on the now-lost play Keep the Widow Waking with Dekker, Ford, and Webster, which was intended for the Red Bull Theatre.
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The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.
According to an account Smith published in 1624, he was going to be put to death until the chief's daughter, Pocahontas, saved him.
However, Crux was later published by Jakob Bartsch in 1624.
Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.
In 1624 France attempted to settle in the area, but was forced to abandon it in the face of hostility from the Portuguese, who viewed it as a violation of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Francesco Andreini ( c. 1548 – 1624 ) was an Italian actor mainly of commedia dell ' arte plays.
The exclusive privilege of a guild to produce certain goods or provide certain services was similar in spirit and character with the original patent systems that surfaced in England in 1624.
George Fox ( July 1624 – 13 January 1691 ) was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.
* Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi (~ 1564 – 1624 ) was part of " a reassertion of orthodoxy within Sufism " and was known to his followers as the ' renovator of the second millennium '.
* Elizabeth was born about 1624 and died in Little Compton, Rhode Island on May 31, 1717.
The plant was first recorded in America in 1624, but it was named after Pehr Kalm, who sent samples to Linnaeus in the 18th century.
After he died in 1624, his son Anton took over the family business ; Anton oversaw a gunsmithing operation during the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 48 ), which was the first instance of the family's long association with arms manufacturing.
The most famous royal visit occurred in 1624, when Ben Jonson's The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth was performed for Charles.
The settlement, outside of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the New Netherland territory ( 1614 – 1664 ), was situated between 38 and 42 degrees latitude and was a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic as of 1624.
In about the year 1600, Nabhani rule was temporarily restored to Oman, although that lasted only to 1624, when fifth imamate, which is also known as the Yarubid Imamate.
Dr. Cudworth died in 1624 when young Ralph was about 7, and his mother then married John Stoughton, who succeeded Dr. Cudworth as rector of Aller until 1632 and gave the boy a good home education.
In 1624, Anguissola was visited by the Flemish painter Sir Anthony van Dyck, who recorded sketches from his visit to her in his sketchbook.
The first permanent settlement on the territory of present-day Uruguay was founded by the Spanish in 1624 at Soriano on the Río Negro.
The first permanent settlement on the territory of present-day Uruguay was founded by the Spanish in 1624 at Soriano on the Río Negro.
With the bankruptcy of the London Company in 1624, the settlement was taken into royal authority as a British crown colony.
Year 1624 ( MDCXXIV ) was a leap year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
In 1624, the Guildhall was converted to be a magistrate's court.
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He was chosen as a replacement for another member at Hull in 1624 and was re-elected for the seat in 1625.
He was subsequently elected to Parliament as member for Old Sarum ( 1624 ), Thetford ( 1625 ) and Castle Rising ( 1628 ).
Ludovic Stuart, second Duke of Lennox ( see Lennox ( district )) ( 1574 – 1624 ), who also held other titles in the peerage of Scotland, was created Earl of Richmond in 1613 and Duke of Richmond in 1623 as a member of the Lennox line ( not unlike King James himself ) in the House of Stuart.
When Virginia became a crown colony, Sandys was created a member of council in August 1624 ; he was reappointed to this post in 1626 and 1628.
He was a member of the court of assistants again from 1624 to 1628.
King's Men member John Underwood did the same in 1624.
Sir Thomas Moulson ( sometimes spelled " Mowlson ") ( 1582 – 1638 ), an alderman and member of the Grocers ' Company, was a Sheriff of London in 1624 and Lord Mayor of London in 1634.
Honours continued throughout the remainder of James ' reign: Montgomery became keeper of the Palace of Westminster and St. James's Park in 1617 ; Lord Lieutenant of Kent in 1624 ; and finally, in December 1624, a member of the privy council.
Imām Rabbānī Shaykh Ahmad al-Farūqī al-Sirhindī ( 1564 – 1624 ) was an Indian Islamic scholar from Punjab, a Hanafi jurist, and a prominent member of the Naqshbandī Sufi order.
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* 1624 – The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.
In 1624, he reached a pinnacle of notoriety when his dramatic allegory A Game at Chess was staged by the King's Men.
on the King's visit to the university in 1624.
A Game at Chess is a comic satirical play by Thomas Middleton, first staged in August 1624 by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre, notable for its political content.
The traitorous White King's Pawn is a composite of several figures, including Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, a former Lord Treasurer who was impeached before the House of Lords in April 1624.
A history play titled Henry I was licensed for performance by the King's Men on April 10, 1624 as Davenport's work ; it has not survived.
While the Henry I licensed in 1624 was certainly a play for the King's Men, it first appears eight years after Shakespeare's death and scholars have been universally skeptical that Davenport and Shakespeare ever worked together.
Impeached by the House of Commons for corruption, he was found guilty by the House of Lords in May 1624 and was sentenced to lose all his offices, to pay a heavy fine and to be imprisoned during the King's pleasure.
He was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland and then in England and was Lord High Treasurer from 1624 to 1628.
Under the pseudonym Gustavus Selenus, he wrote a book on chess in 1616, Chess or the King's game, and on cryptography in 1624: Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae libri IX.
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