October 12 – A version of the rhyme "Three Blind Mice" appears in Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie (London). The editor and possible author of the verse is the teenage Thomas Ravenscroft.[3]
December 8 – The Sala Fredericiana, the first reading room of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, opens. It is one of the first major libraries to have bookshelves ranged along the walls.[4]
December 21 – William Ames delivers a controversial sermon for St Thomas's Day criticizing the "heathenish debauchery" of Cambridge students during the Twelve Days of Christmas.
December 24 – John Marston, having retired from writing for the theater, is ordained a priest.
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^Neues Konversations-Lexikon: e. Wörterbuch d. allgemeinen Wissens. Thee - Zzubin (in German). Bibliograph.Inst. 1872. p. 47.
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^Margarita Zamora (May 27, 1988). Language, Authority, and Indigenous History in the Comentarios Reales de Los Incas. Cambridge University Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-521-35087-7.
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^William-Carew Hazlitt (1874). Prefaces, Dedications, Epistles Selected from Early English Books 1540-1701. Whittigham & Wilkins. p. 214.
^University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus). Graduate College (1953). Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations. University of Nebraska. p. 136.
^Richard Lawrence Ollard (1988). Clarendon and His Friends. Atheneum. p. 362. ISBN 978-0-689-11731-2.
^François Guizot; Guizot (M., François) (1852). Corneille and His Times. R. Bentley. p. 333. ISBN 978-0-8046-1569-3.
^Betty Travitsky; Patrick Cullen; Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler (January 1, 2000). Life Writings: Volume 2. Ashgate. p. xx. ISBN 978-0-7546-0209-5.
^Hugo Grotius (1995). Hugo Grotius, Ordinum Hollandiae AC Westfrisiae Pietas (1613): Critical Edition with English Translation and Commentary. BRILL. p. 16. ISBN 90-04-10385-6.
^D. L. Kirkpatrick (1991). Reference Guide to English Literature: Introductions ; Writers A-G. St. James Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-1-55862-078-0.