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May 15, 2024 · Who Were the Real Pirates of the Caribbean? During the Golden Age of Piracy, thousands of sea dogs sought fame and fortune. But the reality of a pirate’s life was less enticing than movies and...
2 days ago · Petitions in the State Papers, 1600-1699. This volume includes transcriptions of a sample of 387 petitions submitted to the monarch and other authorities, preserved in the State Papers at The National Archives. English Petitions. Originally published by , , . This free content was born digital.
3 days ago · John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
4 days ago · The peticion of Michaell Huitt. John and Thomas Temple, owners of the ship Bristoll of London. SP 32/14 f. 35 (1690) To the honourable the knights cittizens and burgesses in. Parliament assembled. The humble peticion of John and Thomas Temple owners of the shipp Bristoll of London. Most humbly shew.
6 days ago · Scotland in the early modern period refers, for the purposes of this article, to Scotland between the death of James IV in 1513 and the end of the Jacobite risings in the mid-eighteenth century.
1 day ago · Sir George, the second baronet of Esk, resided at Netherby, the present family seat: his son, Sir Richard, was in 1680, created Viscount Preston of the kingdom of Scotland; after the revolution, being apprehended in a boat on the river Thames, as he was about to leave the kingdom for the purpose of joining the abdicated monarch, he was tried and...
1 day ago · The history of the Netherlands extends back long before the founding of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. For thousands of years, people have been living together around the river deltas of this section of the North Sea coast.
