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July 29 - Anthony Wood is condemned in the vice-chancellor's court for certain libels against the late Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon ; he is fined, banished from the university until he recants, and the offending pages are burned.

Joseph Addison addresses an early poem to John Dryden .

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''The Impartial Critick'' by John Dennis

''Manuductio ad lectionem Scripturae Sacrae'' by August Hermann Francke

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April 9 - Roger De Rabutin, Comte De Bussy , French memoirist

May 25 - Madame De La Fayette , French writer