Popery
1211715 in literature — The year 1715 in literature involved some significant events.Events* Nicholas Rowe becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain. * Peter the Great takes lessons in maritime affairs from Hermann Boerhaave, before departing for Holland. * The 15, a… …
1221718 in literature — The year 1718 in literature involved some significant events and new books.Events* The Freethinker (newspaper) is founded by Ambrose Philips and Hugh Boulter. * Laurence Eusden becomes Poet Laureate of Great Britain. * Voltaire is released from… …
1231664 in literature — The year 1664 in literature involved some significant events.Events* Sir William Davenant s dramatic opera Macbeth , adapted from Shakespeare s play, premiers on November 5. *Thomas Killigrew and the King s Company stage Killigrew s The Parson s… …
124John Toland — (November 30, 1670 March 11, 1722) was an Irish philosopher.BiographyVery little is known about his true origins other than the fact that he was born in Ardagh (Ballyliffin) on the Inishowen Peninsula, a predominantly Catholic and Irish speaking… …
125Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar — Don Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar (es: Don Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar ) (Gondomar, Galicia November 1, 1567 ndash; October 2, 1626), was a Spanish diplomat, the Spanish ambassador to England in 1613 to 1622 and… …
126Corpus Christi College, Cambridge — Colleges of the University of Cambridge Corpus Christi College …
127Matthew Tindal — Dr Matthew Tindal Matthew Tindal (1657 – 16 August 1733) was an eminent English deist author. His works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great controversy and challenged the Christian consensus of his time. Contents …
128Papist — is a term, usually disparaging or an anti Catholic slur, referring to a member of the Catholic Church. It was coined during the English Reformation to indicate that a Christian s loyalties were to the Pope, rather than to the anti papal Church of …
