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Pages in category "1588 in England" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... An Admonition to the Nobility and People of England and Ireland; C.
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, civil engineer most famous as co-designer, alongside Benjamin Baker, of the Forth Railway Bridge; Jesse Hartley (1780–1860), civil engineer; J. B. Hartley (1814–1869), civil engineer; Benjamin Hick (1790–1842), civil and mechanical engineer; John Hick (1815–1894), civil and mechanical engineer
The Spanish Armada set sail for England in May 1588, and arrived on the English coast on 29 July, near Cornwall. An English fleet consisting of 55 ships set out from Plymouth to confront the Armada, under the command of Lord Howard of Effingham , with Sir Francis Drake serving as vice admiral, commanding from the galleon Revenge .
Everard Digby's De Arte Natandi, the first treatise on swimming in England, is published. The doctrine Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos is established in common law by Edward Coke. [24] 1588. 1 January – the Children of Paul's act at the court of Queen Elizabeth, probably performing John Lyly's Gallathea.
Henry V of England; Henry VI of England; Elizabeth Somerset, Baroness Herbert; Joan Fitzalan, Countess of Hereford; Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford; William Heron (died 1428) Joan Holland; Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon; John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford
Court of Henry VII of England (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "15th-century English people" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 397 total.
Nicholas Lanier, painting by van Dyck, 1632, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Nicholas Lanier, sometimes Laniere (baptised 10 September 1588 – buried 24 February 1666) [1] was an English composer and musician; the first to hold the title of Master of the King's Music from 1625 to 1666, an honour given to musicians of great distinction.
John Taylor (c. 1480 – 1534) was Master of the Rolls of the Court of Chancery from 1527 to 1534, following a successful career as a priest and civil servant.. Taylor would have been notable just for the circumstances of his birth: he was the firstborn of healthy triplets who all survived to adulthood, which was virtually unheard of in the 15th century.