A legend first recorded in the late 16th century and reported in William Camden's Britannia accounts for the town's place-name, as ' halig ' ( holy ) and ' fax ' ( face ), by stating that the first religious settlers of the district brought the ' face ' of John the Baptist with them.

Although Leland's Itinerary notes remained unpublished until the eighteenth century, they provided a significant quarry of data and descriptions for William Camden's Britannia ( first edition, 1586 ), and many other antiquarian works.

In 1773 he began an edition in English of William Camden's Britannia, which appeared in 1789.

In an essay published in the second edition of William Camden's Remaines ( 1614 ), Richard Carew writes, "… look into our Imitations of all sorts of verses by any other language, and you shall finde that Sir Phillip Sidney, Maister Puttenham, Maister Stanihurst, and divers more have made use how farre wee are within compasse of a fore imagined impossibility in that behalfe ".

In London, he wrote occasional verse, contributing poems to England's Helicon, and commendatory verses to William Camden's Brittania and Ben Jonson's Volpone.

Though Menenius ' fable of the belly was used in other contemporary works, the wording of Menenius's speech about the body politic is derived from William Camden's Remaines ( 1605 ).

The map of Hampshire in the 1722 edition of William Camden's Britannia or Geographical Description of Britain and Ireland shows a symbol for habitation in Aldershot in the Crundhal ( Crondall ) hundred.

Disliked in Ireland as an opponent of Roman Catholic emancipation and as the exponent of an unpopular policy, Camden's term of office was one of turbulence, culminating in the rebellion of 1798: his refusal to reprieve the United Irishman William Orr, convicted of treason on the word of one witness of dubious credit, aroused great public indignation.

There is a long tradition of histories being written or published under official patronage: they include, for example, the Anglica Historia ( drafted by 1513 and published in 1534 ), a history of England written by Polydore Vergil at the request of King Henry VII ; and William Camden's Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnate Elizabetha ( 1615-1627 ), a history of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.

The first known mention of the Suffolk Punch is in William Camden's Britannia, published in 1586, in which he describes a working horse of the eastern counties of England that is easily recognisable as the Suffolk Punch.

The wording of Menenius's speech about the body politic is derived from William Camden's Remains ( 1605 ).

The earliest date for the play rests on the fact that Menenius's fable of the belly is derived from William Camden's Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine.

Holland was extremely productive, but his best known translations are of Pliny the Elder's Natural History ( 1601 ), Plutarch's Moralia ( 1603 ), Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars ( 1606 ), Xenophon's Cyropaedia, and William Camden's Britannia.

* Holland's translation of William Camden's Britannia ( 1610 ), with hyperlinks to the 1607 Latin edition.

In 1789 Richard Gough reported in his new edition of William Camden's Britannia that much of the pavement had been destroyed.

* Dana F. Sutton ( ed ), William Camden's Diary ( 1603-1623 ): A hypertext edition, < www. philological. bham. ac. uk / diary />, ( 26 April 2002 )

Although the cartographer John Speed refers to Red Horse Vale in 1606, the first clear mention of the Red Horse of Tysoe occurs in the 1607 edition of William Camden's Britannia.

The map of Hampshire in the 1722 edition of William Camden's Britannia or Geographical Description of Britain and Ireland shows symbols for habitation in Farnborough, Cove, Ewshot, Aldershot and Crookham in the Crundhal ( Crondall ) hundred.

The castle is known in English as " Crow Castle ", from the Welsh word Brân ; this name was recorded in Gough's edition of William Camden's Britannia.

William Camden's 1586 work Britannia makes this identification, citing John Bale and Matthew Parker.

Other letters appear in John Borough's ‘ Impetus Juveniles ’ ( 1643 ), and in Barten Holyday's ‘ Juvenal .’ Farnaby prefixed verses in Greek with an English translation to Thomas Coryat's ‘ Crudities ,’ and he wrote commendatory lines for William Camden's ‘ Annales .’ Ben Jonson was a friend of Farnaby, and contributed commendatory Latin elegiacs to his edition of Juvenal and Persius.

William Camden, in his 1607 edition of Britannia, describes Cornwall and Devon as being two parts of the same ' country ' which:

The playwright William Shakespeare had already used the family history of Northumberland's family in his Henry IV series of plays, and the events of the Gunpowder Plot seem to have featured alongside the earlier Gowrie conspiracy in Macbeth, written some time between 1603 and 1607.

Joseph Sobran, in Alias Shakespeare, argued that in 1607 William Barksted, a minor poet and playwright, implies in his poem " Mirrha the Mother of Adonis " that Shakespeare was already deceased.

* McLoughlin William G. Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607 – 1977, 1978.

Interestingly, William Camden writing in 1607 states in his book Britannia that originally the title " Prince of Wales " was not conferred automatically upon the eldest living son of the King of England because Edward II ( who had been the first English Prince of Wales ) neglected to invest his eldest son, the future Edward III, with that title.

It was the birthplace of Sir Edward Dyer ( died 1607 ) an Elizabethan poet and courtier, the writer Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), and the cleric William Gould.

* William Shakespeare-Much Ado about Nothing ( 1598 ) and Antony and Cleopatra ( 1607 )

In 1607 a group of pilgrims from Nottinghamshire led by William Brewster and William Bradford attempted to escape pressure to conform with the teaching of the English church by going to the Netherlands from Boston.

The 1607 edition included for the first time a full set of English county maps, based on the surveys of Christopher Saxton and John Norden, and engraved by William Kip and William Hole ( who also engraved the fine title page ).

William Levett of Seaford owned the Bunces and Stonehouse manors in Warbleton, probably inheriting them from his father John Levett, who died in 1607.

In England Frisius's method was included in the growing number of books on surveying which appeared from the middle of the century onwards, including William Cunningham's Cosmographical Glasse ( 1559 ), Valentine Leigh's Treatise of Measuring All Kinds of Lands ( 1562 ), William Bourne's Rules of Navigation ( 1571 ), Thomas Digges's Geometrical Practise named Pantometria ( 1571 ), and John Norden's Surveyor's Dialogue ( 1607 ).

When the Scrooby congregation decided in 1607 to leave England illegally for the Dutch Republic ( where religious freedom was permitted ), William Bradford determined to go with them.

It was the birthplace of Sir Edward Dyer ( died 1607 ) an Elizabethan poet and courtier, the writer Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), and the cleric William Gould.

William Shakespeare's brother, Edmund, was buried here in 1607.

In 1607 Day produced, in conjunction with William Rowley and George Wilkins, The Travels of the Three English Brothers, which detailed the adventures of Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony and Robert Shirley.

He then collaborated in 1607 with William Rowley and John Day in The Travels of the Three English Brothers, a dramatisation of the real-life adventures of the Sherley brothers.

The choruses spoken by Gower were influenced by Barnabe Barnes's The Diuils Charter ( 1607 ) and by The Trauailes of the Three English Brothers ( 1607 ), by John Day, William Rowley, and Wilkins.

She bore eight children: Joan ( 1558 ), Margaret ( 1562 – 63 ), William ( 1564 – 1616 ), Gilbert ( 1566 – 1612 ), Joan ( 1569 – 1646 ), Anne ( 1571 – 79 ), Richard ( 1574 – 1613 ), and Edmund ( 1580 – 1607 ).

Crossing to England towards the end of 1582, he attended the lectures of John Rainolds ( 1549 – 1607 ) at Oxford, and those of William Whitaker at Cambridge.

William Camden in 1607 gave a much more fanciful derivation, claiming that the original name was Regne-wood, the " Regni " ( or Regnenses ) being an ancient people of Britain.