* John Weever

John Weever ( 1631 ) also names Robert Langland, as does David Buchanan ( 1652 ).

John Weever says, “ Kelly ( otherwise called Talbot ) that famous English alchemist of our times, who flying out of his own country ( after he had lost both his ears at Lancaster ) was entertained with Rudolf the second, and last of that Christian name, Emperor of Germany .” Most accounts say that he first worked as an apothecary's apprentice.

* John Weever – The Mirror of Martyrs, or The Life and Death of Sir John Oldcastle

John Weever has been suggested as author of the first play ; the satirist Joseph Hall has been seen as an influence on — if not the author of — the other two, though recent statistical tests bring Hall's authorship into question.

In 1601 a narrative poem, The Mirror of Martyrs, by one John Weever, was published ; it praises Oldcastle has a " valiant captain and most godly martyr.

John Weever ( 1576 – 1632 ), was an English poet and antiquary.

He may be the son of the John Weever who in 1590 was one of thirteen followers of local landowner Thomas Langton put on trial for murder after a riot which took place at Lea Hall, Lancashire.

In his preface Weever calls it the " first trew Oldcastle ," perhaps on account of the fact that Shakespeare's character Falstaff first appeared as ' Sir John Oldcastle '.

* David Kathman, ‘ Weever, John ( 1575 / 6 – 1632 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004

The third name was ( John ) Ravencroft, who was admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1631.

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

The Dutchman Fopp Gerritsz, while in command of a whaling expedition sent out by the Englishman John Clarke, of Dunkirk, claimed ( in 1631 ) to have discovered the island on June 28 and named it " Isabella ".

* 1580 – ( baptised ) John Smith of Jamestown ( d. 1631 )

* 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.

* 1700 – John Dryden, English writer ( b. 1631 )

Among the committee's members were John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ), Thomas Sprat ( 1635 – 1713 ), and John Dryden ( 1631 – 1700 ).

** John Donne, English writer and prelate ( d. 1631 )

* John Donne of England ( 1571 ?– 1631 ), Anglican priest, poet, and philosopher

* Captain John Smith ( 1580 – 1631 ) publishes his book A description of New England in London.

** John Smith of Jamestown, Virginia settler ( d. 1631 )

In 1631, army officer John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen ( 1604 – 1679 ), who was a cousin of stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, bought a plot bordering the Binnenhof and the adjacent pond named Hofvijver ( English: " Court's Pond ") in the The Hague, Holland, Dutch Republic.

* John Dryden, English poet ( 1631 – 1700 )

The only quarto version of The Shrew was printed by William Stansby for the bookseller John Smethwick in 1631 as A Wittie and Pleasant comedie called The Taming of the Shrew, based on the 1623 folio text.

A post-medieval example is the standing shrouded effigy of the poet John Donne ( d. 1631 ) in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in London.

The area known as Lynn was first settled in 1629 by Edmund Ingalls ( d. 1647 ), followed by John Tarbox of Lancashire in 1631, whose descendants still reside in New England.

He was educated at Magdalen Hall ( which later became Hertford College ), Oxford, being tutored by John Tombes and graduating BA in 1631 and MA in 1634.

Sir John Smith ( c. January 1580 – 21 June 1631 ) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author.

* John Phillips ( author ) ( 1631 – 1706 ), author and secretary to John Milton

By his first wife he had nine children ( three sons and six daughters ) one of whom, Richard ( 1631 – 1695 ) was chancellor of the exchequer in William III's reign ; from two of his daughters are descended the families of Trevor Hampden and Hobart-Hampden, the descent in the male line becoming apparently extinct in 1754 in the person of John Hampden.

The obverse and reverse of this coin were designed by John Roettier ( 1631 – c. 1700 ).

* May 12, 1700: John Dryden ( born 1631 )

# Weever 1631 wrote about a monument found on " Coccillway ", thought that Coccill was a lord of the area in Roman days and a corruption of the name led to Coggeshall