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EVENTS

Richard Lovelace , Royalist poet, is imprisoned for opposition to Parliament.

René Descartes meets Frans Burman , resulting in the ''Conversation with Burman''.

During the siege of Colchester , the cannon, '' Humpty Dumpty '', is blown off the walls, inspiring the Nursery Rhyme .

Robert Boyle writes ''Seraphic Love'', his first important work, which will not be published until 1660 .

Ill-health forces Pierre Gassendi to give up lecturing at the Collège Royal .

Richard Flecknoe travels to Brazil .

Edward Pococke becomes Professor of Hebrew at the University Of Oxford , but Obadiah Walker loses his academic post.

Richard Crashaw , exiled in Paris, publishes two hymns in Latin .

NEW BOOKS

''Freeholders Grand Inquest touching our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament'' - Robert Filmer

''The Amorous War'' - Jasper Mayne

POETRY

Robert Herrick -''Hesperides''

BIRTHS

January 1 - Elkanah Settle , poet and dramatist

''date unknown'' - Gaspard Abeille , poet

DEATHS

February 2 - George Abbot , Puritan writer

March 12 - Tirso De Molina , dramatist

May 26 - Vincent Voiture , poet

September 1 - Marin Mersenne , theologian and philosopher