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Thomas Ellwood ( 1639 – 1 March 1714 ) was an English religious writer.
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His journal was first published in 1694, after editing by Thomas Ellwood — a friend and associate of John Milton — with a preface by William Penn.
About November 1660 Ellwood invited a Quaker from Oxford named Thomas Loe to attend a meeting at Crowell.
In April 1661 the elder Ellwood and his two daughters left Crowell to live in London ; Thomas Ellwood then sold the beasts on the Crowell farm at his father's directions and dismissed the servants.
Ellwood was the author of several polemical works in defence of the Quaker position, of which Forgery no Christianity ( 1674 ), The Foundation of Tithes Shaken ( 1678 ) and two tracts attacking Thomas Hicks deserve mention.
His autobiography, The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood: written by his own hand, published posthumously, is a valuable historical document.
The inspiration for Paradise Regained is said to have been found in this parish from a conversation with a former pupil, Thomas Ellwood.
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After seeking Spanish support late in 1638 for action against the Regent Christine Marie of Savoy, Madame Royale, Thomas went to Spanish Milan early in 1639, and alongside Spanish forces invaded Piedmont, where many towns welcomed him.
After seeking Spanish support late in 1638 for action against Regent Christine Marie, Madame Royale, Thomas went to Spanish Milan early in 1639, and alongside Spanish forces invaded Piedmont, where many towns welcomed him.
In 1812, Thomas founded the American Antiquarian Society, a research library holding nearly two-thirds of the items known to have been printed in America from 1639 through 1820.
Yarmouth was organized and named in 1639 by John Crowe ( later Crowell ), Thomas Howes and Anthony Thacher.
With the arrival of Thomas Larkham in 1639, it was renamed Northam, after Northam, Devon where he had been preacher.
On 19 November 1639 he fought in the famous rearguard action called the battle of the " Route de Quiers ", and during the winter re-victualled the citadel of Turin, held by the French against the forces of Prince Thomas of Savoy.
* Thomas Heywood writes Londini Status Pacatus, the Lord Mayor of the City of London's annual pageant for 1639.
In 1639 he was made city chronologer, a post in which Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton had preceded him.
After he married the daughter of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, in 1639, Coventry's patronage secured Cooper a seat in the Short Parliament, although Cooper lost a disputed election to a seat in the Long Parliament.
On 25 February 1639, aged 19, Cooper married Margaret Coventry, daughter of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, who was then serving as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for Charles I.
Thomas Yale, son of Thomas and Ann ( Lloyd ) Yale, settled in the New Haven Colony and signed the Fundamental Agreement of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.
" It was first published later in 1639, in a quarto printed by R. Bishop for John Crook and Thomas Allot, under the title The Bloody Brother.
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.
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* 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.
* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
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