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May 22, 2023 · It commemorates a little-known act of colonial duplicity: a mass poisoning carried out by the English in 1623 as part of an attempted assassination of the Pamunkey leader Opechancanough.
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We know very little about Byrd’s early life. Most books say that he was born in 1543, but a document that was found recently makes us think he was probably born late in 1539 or in 1540. He may have come from Lincoln which is where his first job was, but he probably had some of his education in London. This is likely because we know he was a pupil o...
Around 1563 Byrd got the job of Organist and Choir Master of Lincoln Cathedral. This was an important job for such a young man, and he had an extra-large salary, so people must have thought he was a very good musician. By this time Queen Elizabeth Iwas on the throne. She had different ideas from Mary. She was Protestant, and liked church music to b...
In 1570 he got a job as Gentleman of the Chapel Royalin London. He may have done both jobs for a year or two, and he certainly continued to write music for Lincoln for some years after that. He settled in London and started to make many friends. He was very careful to get to know lots of important people who would be able to help him in his career....
In 1593 he moved with his family to Stondon Massey in Essex. He spent the rest of his life there. Most of his church music from that time on was in Latin. He wrote three settings of the Mass and two books of Gradualiawhich were large collections of music for the whole year. Byrd also wrote a lot of keyboard music. Some of it was for a collection ca...
1623 births. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1623 births. People born in the year 1623. See also: 1623 deaths .
The colony prospered. Tobacco—grown by indentured servants and enslaved Africans—sustained the economy. The first popularly elected legislative body in the "New World" was established.
The following list includes not only saints of the Catholic Church and those officially beatified by the Church , but also those considered venerabili, servants of God or candidates for sainthood, who belonged to the Carmelite order.
Mayflower Descendants. The following is a list of the descendants that sailed over to the New World on the Mayflower. The information was compiled by Judy Cunniff, an archivist with the Chatham Historical Society:
Apr 19, 2024 · 3.1 General Society of Mayflower Descendants. 3.2 John Howland Society. 4 Mayflower Resources - Wiki Articles. 5 Related Websites. Mayflower History. On 6 September 1620 the ship Mayflower departed Plymouth, England carrying 102 passengers, 74 males and 28 females, many of whom were “Separatists” from the Church of England.
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