Portraits 30-34 in ''Effigies et nomina quorundam e societate Iesu qui pro fide vel pietate sun iter facti ab anno 1549 ad annum 1607'' (Rome, 1608)

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Portraits 30-34 in ''Effigies et nomina quorundam e societate Iesu qui pro fide vel pietate sun iter facti ab anno 1549 ad annum 1607'' (Rome, 1608)

after Unknown artist
line engraving, 1608
3 7/8 in. x 14 3/8 in. (99 mm x 365 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D25318

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Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, also known as 'Bess of Hardwick' dies; she was one of the wealthiest people in late Elizabethan England, and an important patron of architecture.

Art and science

The Masque of Beauty by Benjamin Jonson is performed at the new Banqueting House. Queen Anne and ladies of her court perform the masque in front of the king.
The acting troupe, the Duke of York's Men, is formed under the patronage of eight year old Charles, Duke of York.

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Captain John Smith, taken prisoner by Chief Powhatan, leader of the Virginia Algonquian Indians, is released. Legend famously credits Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas with saving Smith from execution by her tribe. Smith would later become governor of Virginia.

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