...cut with facets, 2 large pointed diamonds, i fair heart diamond, and 3 triangle diamonds.2 AIGRETTES At the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century an aigrette was often worn in the hat, a jewelled brooch being employed to hold it. The latter was...

...security in another way by becoming Moslims. Conversions to Islam took place on a still larger scale at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. In the period between the decay of the Janissaries and the rise of the Phanariots, these Muslim Albanians...

...Flanders." Chief among them were the inhabitants of the many religious houses founded by British refugees at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. Several of these houses are mentioned in Marwood's diary. I propose to show the reader how to trace...

...improved English spelling, made usually by men of rank and influence, had little permanent effect. At the end 'of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth Century the more conservative Richard Mulcaster and Alexander Gill exerted more lasting influence than the...

...said, to show that, if we had no historical evidence at all with regard to the economic conditions at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, excepting the plays and poems of Shakespeare, we should be able to construct a pretty fair picture...

...were the origin and the character of the other Catholic communities which sprang up all over Bengal at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. Native rulers, whose states were continually exposed to the raids of their enemies, appealed for protection...

...complaisant Lord Herbert of Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. Lord Herbert seems to have had a fair knowledge of Latin and Greek and of logic when, in his thirteenth...

...reformation in a time when reformation was supremely needed. Here is how one of his biographers, who lived at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, describes the polytheism and idolatry of Nanak's time : ' Some worshipped the sun or moon, others propitiated...

...by Richard Hughes introduces the Welshman as well as the Englishman to a poet from Lleyn who lived at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. The Love-Song by Wil Hopcin has been well translated, but it is a hard task to reproduce the rare charm...

...of this royal protocol, which were thus made inflexible, were observed with more or less precision at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century; Henry III himself carried them out very incompletely, and Henry IV extremely badly, for his free and...