Kingdom of England

Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy

empiricism

1588–1679

"The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning; or some sudden force of the Passions."

Thomas More

Politics

"I die the king's faithful servant, and God's first."

Geoffrey Chaucer

Literature

1343–1400

"         Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche that men callen daysies in our toun."

Guy Fawkes

1570–1606

"What If the Gunpowder Plot Had Succeeded?"

Julian of Norwich

Literature

"It is God’s will that we have great regard to all His deeds that He hath done, but evermore it needeth us to leave the beholding what the Deed shall be."

John Wallis

Mathematics

1616–1703

"Jakob Bernoulli, John Wallis, The Doctrine of Permutations and Combinations"

William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor)

Politics

1590–1657

"The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price."

Charles II of England

Politics

1630–1685

"I am sure no man in England will take away my life to make you King."

John Ogilby

Business

1600–1676

"True Valour best is without Witness shown."

John Aubrey

Literature

1626–1697

"His complexion exceeding faire – he was so faire that they called him the Lady of Christ's College."

Edward Wood

Military

1841–1898

"...if we got to the point of discussing the terms of a general settlement and found that we could obtain terms which did not postulate the destruction of our independence, we should be foolish if we did not accept them."

Aphra Behn

Literature

1640–1689

"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."

John Lyly

Literature

1554–1606

"Goe to bed with the Lambe, and rise with the Larke."

Christopher Marlowe

Literature

English Renaissance theatre

1564–1593

"Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool."

John Donne

Military

1572–1631

"Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love."

Elizabeth I of England

1533–1603

"I shall be thy name in Christ as I emerge through these walls in vein"

Thomas Browne

Literature

1605–1682

"For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in."

Robert Fludd

Mathematics

1574–1637

"Geomancy was a natural art, drawing on the inborn powers of the human soul to glean information from the larger soul of the world."

Ben Jonson

Literature

1572–1637

"Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression."

Samuel Pepys

Law

1633–1703

"Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is."

William Cecil

Politics

1520–1598

"England can never be ruined except by a parliament."

John Dee

Science

1527–1609

"The J.W. Hamilton-Jones translation of Monas Hieroglyphica from Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica"

William Penn

Religion

1644–1718

"William Penn, America's First Great Champion for Liberty and Peace by Jim Powell"

Walter Raleigh

Politics

1552–1618

"The world itself is but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution."

John Bunyan

Literature

1628–1688

"Moot Hall Elstow - Museum specialising in 17th C life and John Bunyan"

Charles I of England

Politics

1600–1649

"I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world."

"Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele."

Christopher Langton

Science

1521–1578

"You can see these two species coexisting in a long period of stability; then on of the them drops out and all hell breaks loose. Tremendous instability. That's the Soviet Union."

Edward Herbert

Literature

1583–1648

"A good rider on a good horse, is as much above himself and others, as this world can make him."

Hugh Latimer

Religion

1485–1555

"The martyrdoms of Latimer, Ridley, and Cranmer"

William Caxton

Literature

1422–1491

"The worshipful fader and first foundeur and enbelissher of ornate eloquence in our Englissh. I mene Maister Geffrey Chaucer."

John Selden

Mathematics

1584–1654

"A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat."

James Howell

Literature

1594–1666

"He will bless God, and love England ever after"

"Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet."

Richard III of England

Politics

1452–1485

"Website with contextual information from an "Exhibition at the Royal National Theatre, London" on Richard III's letters"

"he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unités, or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action."

William Tyndale

Social Activism

1494–1536

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God..."