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EVENTS

Lucas Holstenius arrives in Britain to gather material for his ''Geographi Minores''.

NEW BOOKS

Juan Ruiz De Alarcón - '' El Tejedor De Segovia ''

Francis Bacon - ''The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh''

George Wither - ''Faire-Virtue, The Mistresse of Phil Arete''

NEW DRAMA

Richard Brome - ''The French Disease''

John Fletcher - ''The Beggar's Bush''

John Fletcher & Philip Massinger - ''The Spanish Curate''

Thomas May - ''The Heir''

Thomas Middleton and William Rowley - '' The Changeling ''

William Rowley (attributed) - '' The Birth Of Merlin ''

BIRTHS

January 15 - Molière , dramatist

February 24 - Johannes Clauberg , philosopher and theologian

April 11 - Jan Van Vliet , philologist

April 17 - Henry Vaughan , poet, and Thomas Vaughan , philosopher (twins)

''date unknown'' - Gilbert Mabbot , journalist and licenser of the press 1647-49

DEATHS

August 21 - Juan De Tassis Y Peralta, Count Of Villamediana , poet (murdered)

''date unknown'' - Henry Ainsworth , clergyman and scholar

''date unknown'' - Sir George Buck , historian

''date unknown'' - John Owen , writer of epigrams