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SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

EVENTS

The young Blaise Pascal moves with his family to Paris.

Thomas Hobbes is employed as a tutor by the Cavendish family.

Roger Williams arrives in Boston, Mass.

NEW BOOKS

Johann Philipp Abelin - ''Arma Suecica'', volume 1

Moses Amyraut - ''Traité des religions''

Collected works of Jacobus Arminius published posthumously in Frankfurt.

NEW DRAMA

Thomas Heywood - ''The Fair Maid of the West''

Jean Mairet - ''La Silvanire, ou la Morte-vive''

Jean Rotrou - ''L'Hypocondriaque''

BIRTHS

January 1 - Katharine Philips , poet, "Orinda"

March 6 - René Le Bossu , critic

August 9 - John Dryden , poet and dramatist

''date unknown'' - Richard Cumberland , philosopher

''date unknown'' - John Phillips , satirist and nephew of John Milton

''date unknown'' - Michael Wigglesworth , poet

DEATHS

March 31 - John Donne , poet

May - Samuel Harsnett , religious writer

May 6 - Robert Bruce Cotton , founder of the Cotton Library

July - Enrico Caterino Davila , historian

July 28 - Guillén De Castro Y Bellvis , dramatist

September 22 - Cardinal Federico Borromeo , archbishop of Milan, founder of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana

December 23 - Michael Drayton , poet