The painter Roelandt Savery ( 1576 – 1639 ) entered the St. Luke ’ s guild in Utrecht at about the same time.

* St. Martin de Porres ( d. 1639 )

** John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St. Andrews ( d. 1639 )

This fact found in the Haarlem archives has led to speculation that Hals made a self-portrait in his 1639 painting of the St. Joris company, though this has never been confirmed.

A similar painting, with the date of 1639, suggests some study of Rembrandt masterpieces, and a similar influence is apparent in a picture of 1641 representing the Regents of the Company of St Elizabeth, and in the portrait of Maria Voogt at Amsterdam.

When Phillipe de Longviliers de Poincy was made the French governor of St. Kitts in 1639, the town turned into a large, successful port, commanding Eastern Caribbean trade and colonisation.

He became a singer at St Mark's Basilica in Venice in 1616, second organist in 1639, first organist in 1665, and in 1668 maestro di cappella.

St Ives was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1639.

In 1639 he was elected to the perpetual curacy of St Mary Aldermanbury in London, where he had a large following.

It featured the classic blue cross on a white field with the picture of St. George slaying the dragon, and was used from 1431 until 1639, when this privilege was greatly limited by the Sultan.

He married Lenox ( d. 1639 ), daughter of Sir John Rodes of Barlborough, Derbyshire, and his third wife Catherine, daughter of Marmaduke Constable of Holderness on 12 September 1626, at St Michael-le-Belfry in York.

In 1639 he reached an agreement with the English on St Kitts that neither nation should grow tobacco.

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.

Fort St. George ( India ) | Fort St. George was founded at Chennai | Madras in 1639

The English acquired small islands like St Kitts in 1624, expelled in 1629 they returned in 1639 and seized Jamaica in 1655.

Apparently, the method that became known as Simpson's rule was well known and used earlier by Bonaventura Cavalieri ( a student of Galileo ) in 1639, later rediscovered by James Gregory ( who Simpson succeeded as Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews ) and was only attributed to Simpson.

In 1639, the English East India Company purchased the village of Madraspatnam and one year later it established the Agency of Fort St George, precursor of the Madras Presidency, although there had been Company factories at Machilipatnam and Armagon since the very early 17th century.

* ‘ The Total Summ ,’ St. Omer, 1638, reprinted in 1639 with The Judgment of an University Man on Mr. Chillingworth's Book, by Father William Lacy.

* ‘ The Imposture of Puritan Piety ,’ St. Omer, 1639.

John Spottiswoode ( Spottiswood, Spotiswood, Spotiswoode or Spotswood ) ( 1565 – 26 November 1639 ) was an Archbishop of St Andrews, Primate of All Scotland and historian of Scotland.

* Oliver St John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke 1639 – 1646 ( Parliamentary )

Shirley's canon presents fewer problems and lost works than the canons of earlier dramatists ; yet William Cooke registered a Shirley tragedy titled Saint Albans on 14 February 1639 — a play that has not survived.

* Sir Henry Wotton of England ( 1568 – 1639 ), author and diplomat

* August 20 – Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, English playwright ( b. 1639 )

Other alterations and additions were made during the 17th century, including a modest brick house added onto the west end in 1639, perhaps intended as a home for Sir Alexander's bailiff, as he himself no longer used the hall as his main residence by that time.

Sir Henry Wotton dying in 1639, Walton undertook his life also ; it was finished in 1642 and published in 1651.

In 1639 he married Frances Lister, daughter of Sir William Lister.

The great seal was in December 1639 given to Sir Richard Bolton.

* Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet ( 1639 – 1708 )

** Sir Henry Wotton, diplomat and author ( died 1639 )

* Memorials Upon the Death of Sir Robert Quarles, Knight ( 1639 ), in honor of his brother

* Sir Francis Henry Lee, 2nd Baronet ( 1616 – 1639 )

* Sir Francis Henry Lee, 4th Baronet ( 1639 – 1667 )

* Sir Thomas Finch, 3rd Baronet ( 1578 – 1639 ) ( succeeded as Earl of Winchilsea in 1634 )

Although other editions of the London Pharmacopoeia were issued in 1621, 1632, 1639 and 1677, it was not until the edition of 1721, published under the auspices of Sir Hans Sloane, that any important alterations were made.

Sir Henry Wotton ( 30 March 1568 – December 1639 ) was an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625.

His eldest son Sir Charles Caesar was also Master of the Rolls from 1639 to 1642.

In 1638 and 1639 were written the Letters between Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby, Knt.

1578 – 1639 ), son of Sir John Thynne the Younger

* Sir Thomas Erskine, 1st Earl of Kellie ( 1566 – 1639 )

* Sir Jacob Astley, 1st Baronet ( c. 1639 – 1729 )

* Sir Richard Bolton ( 1639 – November 1648 ).

* Sir William Bowyer, 2nd Baronet ( 1639 – 1722 )

Carey married in 1602 Elizabeth Tanfield ( 1585 – 1639 ), daughter and heiress of Sir Lawrence Tanfield, lord chief baron of the exchequer, and his wife Elizabeth Symonds, daughter of Giles Symondes of Claye, Norfolk.

* Sir Walter Aston, 1st Baronet ( 1584 – 1639 ) ( created Lord Aston of Forfar in 1627 )