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1686 English guinea showing the Royal African Company's symbol, an elephant and castle, under the bust of James II. Originally known as the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading into Africa, by its charter issued on 18 December 1660 it was granted a monopoly over English trade along the west coast of Africa, with the principal objective being the search for gold.
Publications established in 1668 (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Publications established in the 1660s" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The Governour and Council having had the perusal of said Pamphlet, and finding that therein contained Reflections of a very high nature: As also sundry doubtful and uncertain Reports, do hereby manifest and declare their high Resentment and Disallowance of said Pamphlet, and Order that the same be Suppressed and called in; strictly forbidden ...
Selling the manuscript meant abandoning any legal rights to the literary work the writer might have, [2] such as copyright or moral rights. According to the literary scholar George Justice, subscription was a descendant of patronage, whereby writers would depend on the financial support of a single person to produce literature. [3] W. A.
Jean-Jacques Chifflet (1588–1660) engraved by Cornelis Galle the Younger after Nicolaas van der Horst, 1647 At the behest of his employer, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria , who was then Governor of the Spanish Netherlands , he studied the objects which had been recovered from the tomb of Childeric I in Tournai .
His first publication, while at Cambridge, was the Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium (1660), followed by many works, botanical, zoological,theological and literary. [9] Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him". [26]
January 11 – Samuel Pepys starts his diary, still using the Old Style date of 1 January. [1]February/March – John Rhodes reopens the old Cockpit Theatre in London, forms a company of young actors and begins to stage plays. [2]
Pleasure Craft (Arrival and Report) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1169) Home-Grown Cereals Authority (Rate of Levy) Order 1990 ( S.I. 1990/1170 ) Public Telecommunication System Designation (Videotron London Limited) (Lambeth and Southwark) Order 1990 ( S.I. 1990/1171 )