1550 Collection (page 4)

Pyramids (Munster)
A depiction of the Pyramids by an artist who had the misfortune never to have seen them

Piers Plowman / Frontis
Frontispiece

Spanish Galleons Firing
Spanish galleons attempt to ward off rivals for the New World

Racial / Japan / Warrior
A warrior of the Ashikaga period, seated beside his bow, fanning himself

Edward VI Grants Charter
King Edward VI granting a charter to the barber-surgeons of London

16th C Coventry Building
Old houses (circa 1550) in Park St, Coventry. Date: 16th century

Indian Monsters
Monstrous creatures reported by travellers in India, from beyond the Ganges River - some with dogs heads, some with one eye, some with heads below their shoulders &c

Pope Julius III
POPE JULIUS III (Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte)

Stanislas Kostka
STANISLAS KOSTKA Polish Jesuit, miracle-worker, miraculously healed, but died at age 18, made a saint

Aristocratic Household
An aristocratic household gather for their devotions in the chapel at Moat House, Ightham, Kent

Willem Barents
WILLEM BARENTS Dutch navigator

French burn a Cuban town
The French occupy the Spanish-held town of Chiorera (Chorrera) in Cuba, pillage it and finally destroy it by fire, because of the perfidy of its inhabitants

Fighting at Haiti 1550
Fighting between French and Spanish at Hispaniola (Haiti)

17th Earl of Oxford
Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford Writer

John Napier, Scottish mathematician
John Napier, 8th Laird of Merchiston, Scottish mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer, inventor of logarithms

C16 Spanish Galleon
Spanish galleon

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