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Events Timeline
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Katherine Chidley: 16 December 1646
Women writers item
Author event in Katherine Chidley
16 December 1646
The
voted to forbid anyone except ordained clergy to preach publicly or to write against church government: a specific target of this vote was
, and a general target was women.
Anne Docwra: About 1647
Women writers item
Author event in Anne Docwra
About 1647
married James Docwra of Fulbourne (near Cambridge), who came, she said, from the Hertfordshire, not the Cambridgeshire Docwras.
Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick: 1647
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick
1647
Pressed by her small son's illness and her
's increasingly debilitating gout,
underwent an experience of conviction or conversion.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke: Probably 1647
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Probably 1647
Wilton House, formerly the home of
, was damaged by fire.
Hannay dates the fire 1647, Waller 1648.
Catherine Holland: About 1647
Women writers item
Author event in Catherine Holland
About 1647
The ten-year-old
attempted suicide, but was prevented by one of her sisters.
Elizabeth Hooton: early 1647
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Hooton
early 1647
The first, epoch-making meeting took place between
, who was approaching fifty, and the much younger
.
1647: Abraham Cowley's The Mistress, a collection...
Writing climate item
1647
's The Mistress, a collection of love-poems, was published, but not by the intention of its author.
1647: The first traceable English-language newspaper,...
Writing climate item
1647
The first traceable English-language newspaper,
's Intelligencer, appeared; circulated only to shipping companies, its announcements of docking times for particular ships, with separate listings of goods expected, arguably constitute the earliest real advertising.
1647: The slave trade carried the germs of yellow...
1647
The slave trade carried the germs of yellow fever from Africa to North America.
6 January 1647: Mary Overton, arrested with her brother-in-law...
National or international item
6 January 1647
, arrested with her brother-in-law
as they worked on a scandalous pamphlet, was brought before the
, pregnant and with her six-month-old baby in her arms.
Elizabeth Warren: 1 February 1647
Women writers item
Author event in Elizabeth Warren
1 February 1647
published Spiritual Thrift; or, Meditations Wherein Humble Christians (as in a Mirrour) May View the Verity of Their Saving Graces, a
devotional pamphlet which attacks both
and
.
Lady Hester Pulter: Between 7 February and 4 June 1647
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Hester Pulter
Between 7 February and 4 June 1647
composed the earliest poems in her volume tied to a date more specific than a year: the imprisonment of
at Holmby House in Northamptonshire.
8 February 1647: Elizabeth Lilburne was arrested for circulating...
National or international item
8 February 1647
was arrested for circulating pamphlets by her husband,
, a leader of the group later called
(who published nearly forty such works between spring 1640 and late September 1649).
Rachel Speght: March 1647
Women writers item
Author event in Rachel Speght
March 1647
(formerly
) submitted a second petition, requesting that the man who had taken over her
's forfeited benefice should be liable for the excise payments on it.
Spring-summer 1647: A London Baptist girl in her teens, Sarah...
Women writers item
Spring-summer 1647
A London
girl in her teens,
, fell into a months-long trance, the climax of four years of spiritual turmoil about which she later published a pamphlet.
Lady Eleanor Douglas: 2 April 1647
Women writers item
Author event in Lady Eleanor Douglas
2 April 1647
had a visionary experience, which she described in Ezekiel the Prophet.
John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester : 10 April 1647
Writing climate item
Author event in John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester
10 April 1647
John Wilmot (later the poet and libertine
) was born at Ditchley in Oxfordshire.
27 May 1647: Parliament ordered the New Model Army to...
Writing climate item
27 May 1647
ordered the New Model Army to disband: a tactical error which merely intensified the army's politicization.
June to 11 November 1647: Charles I was held captive in his palace...
National or international item
June to 11 November 1647
was held captive in his palace at Hampton Court by
's armies.
3 June 1647: Charles I passed into the custody of Cromwell's...
National or international item
3 June 1647
passed into the custody of
's
at Holmby in Northamptonshire.
5 June 1647: Soldiers of the Parliamentary army took an...
National or international item
5 June 1647
Soldiers of the Parliamentary army took an engagement not to disband; using the captive
as hostage, they began issuing manifestoes calling for army reform and army rule.
Mary Cary: 23 June 1647
Women writers item
Author event in Mary Cary
23 June 1647
In a tract entitled A Word in Season to the Kingdom of England, championed lay preaching, and urged that godliness was to be found in many forms. She used her name, as M. Cary.
Lady Eleanor Douglas: August 1647
Women writers item
Probably by mid-1647: Matthew Hopkins published in London A Discovery...
Probably by mid-1647
published in LondonA Discovery of Witches in . . . Norfolk.
6 August 1647: Cromwell's New Model Army marched on London...
National or international item
6 August 1647
's
marched on London to quell an attempted
counter-revolution.