♂ Nicholas Butler

1595 - 1671

Nicholas Butler
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1613


Feb 13
Age: 18y

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St. George's, Canterbury, Kent, England ⇓
He married firstly a women named Mary Cotterell, who died roughly ten years later in Ashford.
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1613 Keichō embassy: Hasekura Tsunenaga sets out in the Date Maru with a Japanese diplomatic mission to the Holy See, first traveling to Acapulco in New Spain. This follows soon after an agreement between Tokugawa Ieyasu and the East India Company permitting English merchants to live and trade in Japan.

1631


Jul 21
Age: 36y

event


Canterbury, Kent, England ⇓
Him and John Harker, Joyce's stepfather, were plaintiffs in Canterbury against defendant Ursula Vanner, late wife of Henry Vanner, who died 1630, mentioning his cousin Joyce, daughter of Richard Baker, in his will.
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1631 • The bell "Emmanuel" in Notre Dame de Paris is recast.

1655


Age: 60y

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An exemplification relating to properties held by Nicholas Butler, Thomas Catterall and Thomas Hesketh in Wrightington. His first wife's name was Mary Cotterell.
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1655 • The Netherlands and Brandenburg sign a military treaty.

1671


Aug 13
Age: 76y
1671 Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He is later condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II.

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