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TABLE OF PRINCIPAL DATES
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1616 Roger L'Estrange born (d. 1672 Sir Richard Steele born (d.
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1729).
1622 Peacham’s Compleat Gentle- 1674 Wood's Historia et antiqui-
tates Universitatis Oxoniensis,
1624 Jacob Boehme died.
1675 Samuel Clarke born (d. 1729).
1643 Gilbert Burnet born (d. 1715). 1675? Ambrose Philips born (d.
1643 John Strype born (d. 1737).
1749).
1644 Milton's Of Education.
1678 Rymer's Tragedies of the Last
1648 Nova Solyma.
Age.
1650 Jeremy Collier born (d. 1726). 1679 Act for disabling Roman
1651 Hobbes's Leviathan.
Catholics from sitting in Parlia-
1655 Dugdale's Monasticon Angli- ment.
canum, vol. 1.
1679 Burnet's History of the Re-
1656 Dugdale's Antiquities of formation, vol. 1 (vol. II, 1681;
Warwickshire.
vol. III, 1714).
1656 Harrington's Oceana.
1681 L'Estrange establishes The
1656 Osborne's Advice to a Son.
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Men. 1652/3.
Webster, John (Chaplain in the Army). Academiarum Examen, wherein is
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1654.
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in London concerning the Education of Dissenters in their Private
Academies, in several parts of this Nation. 1702. [Written in
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A Defence of a Letter concerning the education of Dissenters in their
Private Academies: with a more full and satisfactory account of the
same, and of their morals and behaviour towards the Church of England.
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A Reply to Mr Palmer's Vindication of the Learning, Loyalty, Morals
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B, C. (Boyle, Charles). Phalaridis Epistolae. Ex MSS. recensuit C. B.
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Dr Bentley's dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, etc. , examin'd.
1698.
Burnet, Thomas. The Theory of the Earth, containing an account of the
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undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things. 1684.
Telluris Theoria Sacra—Orbis Nostri Originem et Mutationes Generales,
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Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de. Oeuvres diverses, etc. Amsterdam, 1701.
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Perrault, Charles. Parallèle des anciens et des modernes en ce qui regarde
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Swift, Jonathan. A Tale of a Tub, written for the universal improvement of
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with a dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, etc. 2nd edn of pre-
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A Defense of the Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning, with
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III. HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL WORKS
Act of Uniformity. Documents relating to the Settlement of the Church of
England by the Act of Uniformity of 1662. 1862.
Adamson, J. W. Pioneers of Modern Education, 1600-1700. Cambridge,
1905.
Allen, W. O. and McClure, E. Two Hundred Years: the History of the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1898.
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Baker, Thomas. History of the College of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge.
Ed. Mayor, J. E. B. Cambridge, 1869.
Brodrick, G. C. A History of the University of Oxford. 2nd edn. 1891.
Memorials of Merton College. Oxford Hist. Soc. Oxford, 1885.
Carlisle, Nicholas. A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools
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Lyte, H. C. Maxwell. A History of Eton College. 4th edn. 1911.
McDonnell, M. F. J. A History of St Paul's School. 1909.
Montmorency, J. E. G. de. State Intervention in English Education. Cam-
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Mullinger, J. B. A History of the University of Cambridge, vols. 1-111.
1886-1911.
Oxford Historical Society's Publications. Collectanea. First Series. 1885.
Second Series. 1890. Third Series. Oxford. 1896.
Sandys, Sir J. E. A History of Classical Scholarship. 3 vols. Cambridge,
1903-8.
Sargeant, John. Annals of Westminster School. 1898.
Sprat, Thomas (Bp of Rochester). The History of the Royal Society of
London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge. 1667.
Ward, John. The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. 2 vols.
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Watson, Foster. The English Grammar Schools to 1660; their curriculum
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1616 Roger L'Estrange born (d. 1672 Sir Richard Steele born (d.
1704).
1729).
1622 Peacham’s Compleat Gentle- 1674 Wood's Historia et antiqui-
tates Universitatis Oxoniensis,
1624 Jacob Boehme died.
1675 Samuel Clarke born (d. 1729).
1643 Gilbert Burnet born (d. 1715). 1675? Ambrose Philips born (d.
1643 John Strype born (d. 1737).
1749).
1644 Milton's Of Education.
1678 Rymer's Tragedies of the Last
1648 Nova Solyma.
Age.
1650 Jeremy Collier born (d. 1726). 1679 Act for disabling Roman
1651 Hobbes's Leviathan.
Catholics from sitting in Parlia-
1655 Dugdale's Monasticon Angli- ment.
canum, vol. 1.
1679 Burnet's History of the Re-
1656 Dugdale's Antiquities of formation, vol. 1 (vol. II, 1681;
Warwickshire.
vol. III, 1714).
1656 Harrington's Oceana.
1681 L'Estrange establishes The
1656 Osborne's Advice to a Son.
Observator.
