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1601Shakespeare, Hamlet
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1603Shakespeare, Othello
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1605Letter about Guy Fawkes
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1607Newsbook
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1608Shakespeare, King Lear
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1608English arrives in North America
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1609Shakespeare's Sonnets
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1611King James Bible
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1612Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
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1613First English dictionary
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1616The Globe Theatre
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1623Shakespeare's First Folio
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1633John Donne, Poetry
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1640Jonson, The English Grammar
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1646Areopagitica by John Milton
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1649Confessions of Charles I's executioner
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1650Advert for a quack doctor
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1650Marvell, 'An Horatian Ode'
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1653Early A - Z of London
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1660Samuel Pepys' Diary
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1662Theatrical figures
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1665Coffee houses
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1665A cure for the Plague
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1666The Fire of London
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1667John Milton's Paradise Lost
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1674Criminal slang
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1677Aphra Behn, The Rover
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1678Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
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1679Habeas Corpus Act
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1684Advert for a Rhinoceros
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1693Account of a shipwreck
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Intro
The first permanent English colony in America was founded at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. The founder of the Jamestown settlement was the adventurer Captain John Smith, famous for being saved from execution by Pocahontas, the daughter of an Indian chief. A True Relation is his description of coastal Virginia, its local peoples, and the new English colony.
On this map
Smith published his detailed map of Virginia in 1612. As seen here, copies were often inserted into editions of A True Relation. The map is noted for its place names of American Indian origin, several of which are still used. They include Pamaunk (Pamunkey River) and Patawomeck (Potomac River). Iames-towne (Jamestown) is centre-left, just above the fold.
John Smith, A True Relation of such Occurences and Accidents … in Virginia. London, 1608. G.7121
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