1631 in England

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Events from the year 1631 in England.

## Incumbents

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* Monarch – Charles I
* Lord Chancellor – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry

## Events

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* 5 February – Puritan minister and theologian Roger Williams emigrates to Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
* 20 February – A fire breaks out in Westminster Hall, but is put out before it can cause serious destruction.[1]
* 14 May – Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, and attainted for sodomy and for assisting in the rape of his wife following a leading case which admits the right of a spouse claiming to be injured to testify against her husband.[2]
* 28 May – William Claiborne sails from England to establish a trading post on Kent Island, the first English settlement in Maryland.
* December – The Holland's Leguer, a notorious brothel in Southwark (London), is ordered closed and besieged for a month before this can be carried out.
* Poor harvest for second year in a row causes widespread social unrest.[3]
* Worshipful Company of Clockmakers established in London.
* Publication of the "Wicked Bible" by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London, an edition of the King James Version of the Bible in which a typesetting erratum leaves the seventh of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:14) with the word not omitted from the sentence "Thou shalt not commit adultery". Copies are withdrawn and about a year later the publishers are called to the Star Chamber, fined £300 and have their licence to print revoked.
* William Oughtred publishes Clavis Mathematicae, introducing the multiplication sign (×) and proportion sign (::).[4][5]
* Thomas Hobbes is employed as a tutor by the Cavendish family, to teach the future Earl of Devonshire.[6]

## Arts and literature

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* 9 January – The masque Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, written by Ben Jonson with music by Nicholas Lanier and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace.
* 11 January – The Master of the Revels refuses to license Philip Massinger's new play, Believe as You List, because of its seditious content; it is first performed in a revised version on 7 May.

## Births

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* 1 January – Katherine Philips, poet (died 1664)
* 6 February – Edward Abney, politician (died 1727)
* 20 February – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, statesman (died 1712)
* 15 April – Walter Vincent, English politician (died 1680)
* 29 April – Joseph Bridger, Colonial Governor of Virginia (died 1686)
* 4 May – William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton, politician (died 1680)
* 29 May – Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth, politician (died 1683)
* 4 July – John Roettiers, engraver (died 1703)
* 15 July – Richard Cumberland, philosopher (died 1718)
* 7 August – Nicholas Tufton, 3rd Earl of Thanet, (died 1679)
* 19 August – John Dryden, writer (died 1700)
* 24 August – Philip Henry, nonconformist minister (died 1696)
* 6 September – Charles Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1696)
* 29 September – Richard Edlin, astrologer (died 1677)
* 12 October – George Saunderson, 5th Viscount Castleton, politician (died 1714)
* 13 October – Richard Hampden, politician (died 1695)
* 18 October – Michael Wigglesworth, Puritan minister, doctor and poet in New England (died 1705)
* 4 November – Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (died 1660)
* 10 November – Daniel Harvey, merchant, diplomat and politician (died 1672)
* 14 December – Lady Anne Finch Conway, philosopher (died 1679)
* John Barret, Presbyterian minister and religious controversialist (died 1713)
* Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, statesman, implicated in Rye House Plot (suicide 1683)
* Joan Dant, Quaker merchant and philanthropist (died 1715)
* Richard Lower, physician who performs the first direct blood transfusion (died 1691)
* John Phillips, satirist (died 1706)
* approx. date – William Ball, astronomer (died 1690)

## Deaths

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* 1 January – Thomas Hobson, carrier and origin of the phrase "Hobson's choice" (born 1544)
* 7 February – Gabriel Harvey, writer (born c. 1552)
* 31 March – John Donne, poet and Dean of St Paul's (born 1572)
* 6 May – Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, politician and antiquarian (born 1571)
* 25 May – Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York and religious writer (born 1561)
* 18 June – Sir Robert Payne, politician (born 1573)
* 21 June – John Smith, soldier and colonist (born 1580)
* 28 October – Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st Baronet, politician (born 1574)
* 23 December – Michael Drayton, poet (born 1563)

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## References

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1. ^ Walford, Cornelius, ed. (1876). "Fires, Great". The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance. C. and E. Layton. p. 29.
2. ^ Herrup, Cynthia B. (2004). "Touchet, Mervin, second earl of Castlehaven (1593–1631)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66794. Retrieved 2014-01-17. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
3. ^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 177–178. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
4. ^ Cajori, Florian (1919). A History of Mathematics. Macmillan. p. 157. "cajori william-oughtred multiplication."
5. ^ Pycior, Helena Mary (1997). Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements: British Algebra through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick. Cambridge University Press. p. 48. ISBN 0-521-48124-4.
6. ^ O'Connor, J. J.; Robertson, E. F. (November 2002). "Thomas Hobbes". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 2019-05-07.

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