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John Cotton (minister)
Minister
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet
Thomas Paget
British writer
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher
James VI and I
King during union of English and Scottish crowns
Ben Jonson
English writer
John Smith
English soldier, explorer, writer
Richard Hakluyt
English author, editor and translator
Francis Bacon
English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
John Gee
Church of england clergyman and religious controversialist
John Wilson
Puritan clergyman in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Selden
English jurist
George Herbert
Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Francis Tregian the Younger
English musician
William Bradford
English Separatist leader in Leiden, Holland and in Plymouth Colony
Walter Raleigh
English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
John Donne
English poet
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era
John Chamberlain
English writer
Joseph Hall
British bishop and writer
Robert Southwell (Jesuit)
English Jesuit
Christopher Marlowe
English dramatist, poet and translator
Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
English courtier and politician
Thomas Middleton
English playwright and poet
Philip Massinger
English writer
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
English soldier and poet
John Lyly
English politician
John Florio
English linguist and lexicographer
John Udall
English clergyman of Puritan views
Thomas Dekker
English dramatist and pamphleteer
Robert Boyd
Scottish theologian
Chidiock Tichborne
English conspirator and poet
Robert Filmer
English writer
Thomas Overbury
English poet and essayist
Samuel Daniel
British poet and historian
John Davies
English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569
Thomas Gage (priest)
English clergyman (1597-1656)
Robert Chester
English poet
William Fowler
British writer
William Mure
Scottish writer and politician