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Winstanley, William

Born: 1628?

Died: 1698

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Born: 1628?

Died: 1698

Books by Winstanley, William (50 max)

Poor Robin: 1666. An almanack after a new fashion. Being the second after bissextile, or leap-year. Wherein the reader may see (if he be not blind) many remarkable things worthy of observation. Containing a two-fold kalender, viz. The Julian or English; and the Roundheads or fanaticks: with their several saints days, and observations upon every month. Written by Poor Robin, Knight of the Burnt Island, a well-willer to the mathematicks. Calculated for the meridian of Saffron-Walden, where the May-pole is elevated (with a garland on the top of it) two yards and a half above the market crosse

1666

Winstanley, William

Old Poor Robin: 1779. An almanack, after the old; yet nevertheless as conformable ... to the very newest new fashion. ... Written by the old honest Poor Robin, ...

1779

Winstanley, William

The country-man's guide: or plain directions for ordering. Curing. Breeding choice, use, and feeding. Of horses, cows, sheep, hoggs, &c. Adorn'd with sculptuers, shewing the proper places in the bodies of the said several beasts, where the said distempers do usually happen. Published for the publick good, by W.W

1679

Winstanley, William

The Protestant almanack: for the year from the incarnation of Jesus Christ, 1685, from the Reformation begun by Luther, 150, from our deliverance from popery by Queen Eliz., 126 : being the first after bissextile or leap-year ... : calculated according to art, for the meridian of Babylon, where the pope is elevated a hundred and fifty degrees above all reason, right, and religion ...

1685

Winstanley, William

Poor Robin's jests: or, The compleat jester: Being a collection of several jests not heretofore published. Now newly composed and written in a new method, both in prose and verse, by Poor Robin, knight of the burnt island, and well-willer to the mathematicks. Together with the true and lively effigies of the said author. The second part

1668

Winstanley, William

The new help to discourse: or, Wit, mirth, and jollity intermixt with more serious matters: Consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt. Together with the countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent

1672

Winstanley, William

1679, a yea and nay almanack for the people called by much of the world Quakers: containing many needfull and necessary observations from the first day of the first month, till the last day of the twelfth month, a being the third after the bissextile or the leaping year : calculated properly for the meridian of the Bull and Mouth within Aldersgate, and may indifferently serve for any other meeting-house what or wheresoever

1679

Winstanley, William

The lives of the most famous English poets or the honour of Parnassus ; in a brief essay of the works and writings of above two hundred of them, from the time of K. William the Conqueror, to the reign of his present majesty, King James II

1687

Winstanley, William

The Essex champion, or, The famous history of Sir Billy of Billerecay and his squire Ricardo

1690

Winstanley, William

The new help to discourse: or, Wit and mirth, intermixt with more serious matters: Consisting of pleasant philosophical, physical, historical, moral, and political questions and answers. As also proverbs, epitaphs, epigrams, riddles, poesies, rules for behaviour, &c. with several other varieties intermixt: together with The country-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent

1696

Winstanley, William

The new help to discourse: Or wit and mirth intermix'd with more serious matter; ... By W. W. gent.

1721

Winstanley, William

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1 B: The SixteenthCentury/The Early Seventeenth Century

1999

George M. Logan, John Skelton, Thomas More, Wyatt, Thomas Sir, William Tyndale, Jean Calvin, Anne Askew, John Foxe, John Hooker, Roger Ascham, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Hoby, Queen Elizabeth I, Arthur Golding, George Gascoigne, Isabella Whitney, Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh, John Lyly, Sir Philip Sidney, Greville, Fulke Baron Brooke, Robert Southwell, Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Campion, Thomas Nashe, John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, Ben Johnson, Lady Mary Wroth, John Webster, Elizabeth Cary, Francis Bacon, Martha Moulsworth, Rachel Speght, Robert Burton, Thomas Browne, Izaak Walton, Thomas Hobbes, George Herbert, Vaughan, Henry, Richard Crashaw, Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Suckling, John Sir, Richard Lovelace, Edmund Waller, Abraham Cowley, Katherine Philips, Andrew Marvell, Lucy Hutchinson, Halkett, Anne Lady, John Lilburne, Winstanley, William, Anna Trapnel, Abiezer Coppe, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Thomas Traherne, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, John Milton

England's Worthies. Select Lives of the most Eminent Persons from Constantine the Great, to the death of Oliver Cromwel late Protector. ... (2 lines)

1660

Oliver Cromwell, Winstanley, William

The Loyall Martyrology; Or Brief Catalogues and Cha- racters of the most Eminent Persons who Suffered for their Conscience during the late times of Rebellion, either by Death, Imprisonment, Banishment, or Sequestra- tion; Together with those who were Slain in the Kings Service. As Also, Dregs of Treachery : With the Catalogue and Characters of those Regicides who Sat as Judges on our late Dread Soveraign of ever Blessed Memory: with others of that Gang, most Eminent for Villany. For encouragement to Virtue, and determent from Vice

1665

Charles I King of England, Stanley, James earl of Derby, Winstanley, William

The loyall martyrology: or, Brief catalogues and characters of the most eminent persons who suffered for their conscience during the late times of rebellion ... As also, Dregs of treachery: with the catalogue and characters of those regicides who sat as judges on our late ... soveraign ...

1665

Winstanley, William

The honour of Merchan-Taylors, wherein is set forth the noble acts ... and heroick performances of Merchant-Taylors in former ages ... with ... their building of publick structures, especially ... Blackwell-Hall.

1668

Winstanley, William

An episcopal almanack for the year of [brace] the worlds creation 5623, mankinds redemption 1674: being the second after bissextile or leap-year, illustrated with the lives of the twelve Apostles, some of the primitive bishops, with divers other things necessary for an annual ephemeris, calculated properly for the famous university and town of Cambridge ..

1674

Winstanley, William

The new Protestant almanack for the year from the incarnation of Jesus Christ, 1677, from our deliverance from popery by Queen Elizabeth, 118: being the first after the bissextile or leap-year : wherein the bloody aspects, fatal oppositions, and pernitious conjunctions of the papacy against the Lord Christ and the Lord's anointed are clearly described : calculated according to art for the meridian of Rome, where the pope is elevated 90 degrees above all reason, right, religion : above kings, canons, councils, conscience ... and may without sensible error indifferently serve the whole papacy

1677

Winstanley, William

Four for a penny, or, Poor Robin's character of an unconscionable pawn-broker and ear-mark of an oppressing tally-man : with a friendly description of a bum-bailey and his merciless setting-cur or follower

1678

Winstanley, William

The Protestant almanack for the year from the incarnation of Jesus Christ 1680, our deliverance from popery by Queen Eliz., 121 ...: being the bissextile, or leap-year, wherein the bloody aspects ... of the papacy against the Lord Christ ... are described ...

1680

Winstanley, William

The Protestant almanack for the year from the incarnation of Jesus Christ 1683, from our deliverance from popery by Queen Eliz. 124, being the third after bissextile or leap-year: wherein the bloody aspects, fatal oppositions, diabolical conjunctions, and pernicious revolutions of the Papacy against the Lord Christ and the Lords anointed are described : with the change of the moon, the rising and setting of the sun, some observable fairs, and the eclipses : together with the moons place in the zodiac, throughout each month of the year : calculated according to art, for the meridian of Babylon, where the Pope is elevated a hundred and fifty degrees above all reason, right, and religion : above kings, canons, councils, conscience, and every thing therein called God, 2 Thes. 2. : and may without sensible error, indifferently serve the whole papacy

1683

Winstanley, William

Histories and observations domestick and foreign, or, A miscellany of historical rarities: collected out of approved authors with other remarkable observations

1683

Winstanley, William

Historical rarities and curious observations domestick & foreign Containing fifty three several remarks; ... With thirty seven more several histories, very pleasant and delightful. Collected out of approved authors, by William Winstanley, author of England's worthies

1684

Winstanley, William

England's worthies.: Select lives of the most eminent persons of the English nation from Constantine the Great down to these times.

1684

Winstanley, William

The Protestant almanack for the year from the incarnation of Jesus Christ, 1684, our deliverence from popery by Queen Eliz. 125: being the bissextile or leap-year ... : with the change of the moon, the rising and setting of the sun, some observable fairs, and the eclipses, together with the moons place in the zodiac, throughout each month of the year, calculated according to art, for the meridian of Babylon, where the Pope is elevated a hundred and fifty degrees above all reason, right, and religion, above kings, canons, councils, conscience, and every thing therein called God, 2 Thes. 2, and may without sensible error, indifferently serve the whole papacy

1684

Winstanley, William

The lives of the most famous English poets, or, The honour of Parnassus in a brief essay of the works and writings of above two hundred of them, from the time of K. William the Conqueror, to the reign of His Present Majesty James II

1687

Winstanley, William

The Protestant almanack for the year 1691 since [brace] the creation of the world 5697, the incarnation of Jesus Christ 1691, England received the Christian faith 1501, Martin Luther wrote against the pope 175, our deliverance from popery by Queen Elizabeth 132, the horrid design of the gun-powder plot 86, the burning of the city of London 25, our second deliverance from popery by K. Will. & Q. Mary 3 : being the bissextile or leap-year ... calculated according to art, for the meridian of Babylon ...and may without sensible errour, indifferently serve the whole papacy

1691

Winstanley, William

[The new help to discourse: or Wit and mirth intermixt with more serious matter: consisting of pleasant, philosophical, physical, historical, moral, and political, questions and answers. As also proverbs, epitaphs, epigrams, riddles, poesies, rules for behaviour, &c. : With several wonders and other varieties: particularly a concise history of all the kings of England, from the Norman Conquest down to King George. : Together with directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy, holy-days, and husbandry, in a plain and easier method.

1722

Winstanley, William

Poor Robin. 1730: a new almanack after the old and new fashion : wherein they that can read may see how many months there are in the year, and what is fit to be eat and drank in each month; also the eclipses and signs both new and old : being the second after bissextile or leap-year : containing a two-fold calendar. Viz. the good, old English honost Protestant account; and their saint's days, &c. Also the new strange foreign account, with their saints, whether canonized at Cheapside, Tyburn, or elswhere

1729

Winstanley, William, William Bowyer, George Parker, Stationers' Company (London, England)

Poor Robin. 1734: a new almanack after the good old fashion : wherein, the reader (for books are chiefly intended for people that can read) may find many very useful things, as when the moon is at full or change, or when between both, with choice directions for the roads, and valuable receipts the like not in any other : being the second after bissextile or leap-year : containing a two-fold calendar. Viz. the true-hearted, Protestant English old account; and the superstitious Romish new account ...

1733

Winstanley, William, William Bowyer, George Parker, Stationers' Company (London, England)

The lives of the most famous English poets (1687)

1963

Winstanley, William