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    Thomas Coryat (also Coryate) (c. 1577 – 1617) was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally remembered...
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    Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels is a travelogue published in 1611 by Thomas Coryat (sometimes also spelled "Coryate" or...
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    rather than the three of Viollet-le-Duc. The English travel writer Thomas Coryat saw it at about the same time and described it as "the fairest gallows...
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    northern Europe was slower. Its use was first described in English by Thomas Coryat in a volume of writings on his Italian travels (1611), but for many...
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    she was held in high regard by her son Akbar, as English traveler Thomas Coryat recorded, Akbar carrying her palanquin himself across the river, during...
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    precedence above all the noble Libraries I saw in my travels. — Thomas Coryat, Coryat's Crudities In 1680, the Senate accepted the recommendation of the...
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    his ship runs aground near Surat. 1612–1617: Thomas Coryat travels by foot to India. 1615–1618: Thomas Roe is ambassador to the court at Agra, India...
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    among them Ben Jonson, John Donne, John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont, Thomas Coryat, John Selden, Robert Bruce Cotton, Richard Carew, Richard Martin, and...
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    musical activity survives in the travel memoirs of the English writer Thomas Coryat. Much of his music was written specifically for that location, although...
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    Italy in the 16th century, and was described for his English readers by Thomas Coryat in the 1590s as "not used in any other country that I saw in my travels"...
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