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EVENTS

'''' by Henry Ainsworth is the only book brought to New England by the pilgrim settlers.

Thomas Middleton is appointed chronologer of the City of London.

Appearance of the second version of The Ballad Of Chevy Chase .

NEW BOOKS

Francis Bacon - '' Novum Organum ''

John Bainbridge 's translation of Ptolemy's ''De Planetarum Hypothesibus''

Standard Welsh Bible, translated by Bishop William Morgan , Richard Parry and John Davies (Mallwyd) .

NEW DRAMA

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher - ''Philaster''

BIRTHS

March 10 - Johann Heinrich Hottinger , philologist and theologian

July 20 - Nikolaes Heinsius , poet and scholar

October 31 - John Evelyn , diarist (d. 1706)

November 10 - Ninon De L'Enclos , author and patron of the arts (d. 1705)

''date unknown'' - Alexander Brome , poet (d. 1666)

''date unknown'' - Lucy Hutchinson , biographer (d. 1681)

''date unknown'' - Marchamont Needham , journalist and pamphleteer (d. 1678)

''probable'' - Melchisédech Thévenot , polymath

DEATHS

February 1 - Mario Di Calasio , author of a Hebrew concordance

February 19 - Roemer Visscher , Dutch writer (b. 1547)

March 1 - Thomas Campion , poet and composer (b. 1567)

''date unknown'' - Richard Carew , author and translator

''date unknown'' - Nathaniel Field , dramatist