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The main events of Book One are the election of George Warleggan to Parliament, the birth of Morwenna's child, the marriage of Dwight and Caroline Enys, Drake Carne becoming a successful blacksmith, Hugh Armitage's courtship of Demelza, Sam Carne falling in love with Emma Tregirls and Ossie Whitworth taking up a sexual relationship with his 14-year-old sister-in-law Rowella.
Jonathan William Patrick Aitken (born 30 August 1942) is a British author, Church of England priest and former Conservative Party politician. Beginning his career in journalism, he was elected to Parliament in 1974 (serving until 1997), and was a member of the cabinet during John Major's premiership from 1994 to 1995.
The Long Parliament, which commenced in this reign, had the longest term and the most complex history of any English Parliament. The entry in the first table below relates to the whole Parliament. Although it rebelled against King Charles I and continued to exist long after the King's death, it was a Parliament he originally summoned. An ...
Behemoth, full title Behemoth: the history of the causes of the civil wars of England, and of the counsels and artifices by which they were carried on from the year 1640 to the year 1660, also known as The Long Parliament, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes discussing the English Civil War.
12 March – Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament (born 1591) 29 March – Charls Butler, beekeeper and philologist (born 1560) 20 April – Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1593) 24 May – Ferdinando Gorges, colonial entrepreneur (born 1565) 9 June – Leonard Calvert, colonial governor (born 1606; died in ...
16 August – Thomas Heywood, playwright, actor, poet and author (born c. 1554) 10 September – Ambrose Barlow, Catholic priest, executed (born 1585) 11 November – Christopher Clitherow, merchant, Lord Mayor of London and Member of Parliament (born 1578) 28 November – Robert Dowland, lutenist (born c. 1591)
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
July – William Crabtree, astronomer and mathematician (born 1610) September – Sir Thomas Barrington, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament (year of birth unknown) 8 September John Coke, politician (born 1563) Francis Quarles, poet (born 1592) 6 November – Thomas Roe, diplomat (born c. 1581) 28 December – John Bankes, judge (born 1589)