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" Netherlands, and about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century was brought thence to England by protestant refugees. Lewis Roberts, in ' The Treasure of Traffic,' published in 1641, makes the earliest mention extant of the... "
Old Lace, a Handbook for Collectors: An Account of the Difference Styles of ... - Page 34
by Margaret Jourdain - 1908 - 121 pages
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An Essay on the Spirit and Influence of the Reformation of Luther

Charles de Villers - Church history - 1805 - 516 pages
...those mysterious assemblies. If the order of Freemasons did not then receive its birth, that is to say about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century, it received at that time new modifications at least, and became more extensive. No documents have yet...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...be produced to prove, that one Shakspeare, a player, resided in St. Saviour's parish, Southwark, at the end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth, century ; this evidence will not be conclusive proof of the settled residence of Shakspeare : For it is a fact...
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A history of inventions and discoveries, tr. by W. Johnston. Vol ..., Volume 3

Johann Beckmann - 1817 - 570 pages
...it appears much more probable that this invention had its rise in the Netherlands or Germany, either about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century. The oldestaccount with which I am acquainted, seems to be in favour of Germany, and the sixteenth century....
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A History of the Brazil: Comprising Its Geography, Commerce, Colonization ...

James Henderson - Brazil - 1821 - 608 pages
...and St. Pedro, are supposed to hate been given when it was first annexed to the crown lands. ^''" "' About the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth cefatiiry, some Vincentistas removed their establishments to the vicinity of la'ke Dos Patos, and their...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 578 pages
...be produced to prove that one Shakspeare, a player, resided in St. Saviour's parish, Southwark, at the end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth, century; this evidence will not be conclusive proof of the settled residence of Shakspeare : For it is a fact...
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The Modern Traveller: (VII, 350 p., [1] h. map. pleg.)

1825 - 382 pages
...II. granted extensive lands in the territory denominated St. Gabriel, adjacent to the Plata. Towards the end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth century, some Vincentistas (inhabitants of St. Vincente) first removed to the vicinity of the Lagoa dos Patos...
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Brazil and Buenos Ayres, Volume 1

Josiah Conder - Argentina - 1825 - 374 pages
...II. granted extensive lands in the territory denominated St. Gabriel, adjacent to the Plata. Towards the end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth century, some Vincentistas (inhabitants of St. Vincente) first removed to the vicinity of the Lagoa dos Patos...
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Mechanism of the Heavens

Mary Somerville - Astronomy - 1831 - 710 pages
...plants, in metals, even in woods, that to seek alarms the feeble, but to possess constitutes the mighty.' About the end of the sixteenth, or the beginning of the seventeenth century, Tycho Brahe made a series of correct and numerous observations on the motion of the planets, which...
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The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and ..., Volume 6

Theology - 1834 - 764 pages
...other matters, as connected with inns, that I mean to speak. A practice appears to have arisen towards the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century, for any one who was about to build an inn, to apply to the crown for a licence. The cause may have...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 7

1837
...the name or the thing in England. But the earliest clubs remembered in our popular literature date about the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century. It was then that there was established the famous club at the Mermaid Tavern, in Friday Street, of...
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