United States or Namibia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
In silence Virginia received him, and while he remained Governor no Assembly sat. But having asserted his authority, the King in a few years' time was willing to recall his unwelcome representative. So in 1639 Governor Harvey vanishes from the scene, and in comes the well-liked Sir Francis Wyatt as Governor for the second time.
Even more exciting were the adventures of William Okeley, who in 1639 was taken on board the Mary bound for the West Indies, when but six days from the Isle of Wight.
In 1639 Velasquez painted his principal religious work, 'The Crucifixion, for the nunnery of San Placido in Madrid, a painting in which his power has triumphed successfully over his halting imagination. With regard to the many court groups which Velasquez was constantly taking, I may quote Sir W. Stirling Maxwell's amusing paragraph about a curious variety of human beings in the Court Gallery.
A musical comedy by Vergilio Mazzocchi and Mario Marazzoli, entitled 'Chi sofre speri, was produced in Florence under the patronage of Cardinal Barberini as early as 1639. The poet Milton was present at this performance, and refers to it in one of his Epistolae Familiares. In 1657 a theatre was actually built in Florence for the performance of musical comedies.
In 1633 the people of Plymouth established a fort on Connecticut River above the Dutch post, so as to intercept the Indian trade, and in 1639 they renewed the ancient league with Massasoit.
The many disputes, which had arisen between England and the United Provinces during the period between the accession of James I and the battle of the Downs in 1639, had never been settled. The minds of Englishmen were occupied with other and more pressing matters while the Civil War lasted. But the old sores remained open.
The next year on June 4, 1639, they held a meeting in Robert Newman's barn and there, declaring that the Word of God should be their guide in families and commonwealth and that only church members should be sharers in government, they chose twelve men as the foundations of their church state.
About the same time, in 1631, Earle acted as proctor of the University. In 1639 the Earl of Pembroke presented John Earle to the living of Bishopston in Wiltshire, as successor to Chillingworth.
Such amazing verses as these may be found: Cotton Mather, in his "Magnalia," gives thus the full story of the production of "The Bay Psalm-book": "About the year 1639, the New-English reformers, considering that their churches enjoyed the other ordinances of Heaven in their scriptural purity were willing that the 'The singing of Psalms' should be restored among them unto a share of that purity.
Printed in 1621, and with additions in 1638, 1641, and 1650. By George Crewe. Licensed in 1623, but not known. A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen. 12mo, 1630. The Ladies' Cabinet Opened. By Patrick, Lord Ruthven. 4to, 1639; 8vo, 1655. A Curious Treasury of Twenty Rare Secrets. Published by La Fountaine, an expert Operator. 4to, 1649. A New Dispensatory of Fourty Physical Receipts.
Word Of The Day