17th-century English people

Queen consort of James VI of Scots, I of England (1574-1619)

participant in the Antinomian Controversy

Mother of Methodism

English pirate

younger daughter of William Shakespeare

religious leader and emigrant to Plymouth Colony, North America (1566-1644)

British countess (1693–1778)

Countess of Essex and Somerset

longevity claimant

English rector, and the great-great-grandfather of George Washington

Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1576-1653)

Early American colonist from Devon, England

English stenographer

English pirate, explorer, and circumnavigator of the world, the first to map the Galapagos Islands in any detail

sister of William Shakespeare

English giant commonly known as the Childe of Hale

English privateer and Governor of Bermuda

British landowner

English Royalist (c. 1598–1661)

English shipwright

theatre builder and theatrical producer

physician

British supercentenarian

knight and grandfather of Oliver Cromwell

english interrogator (1531-1604)

slave concubine

common executioner of London (1639–1649)

English musician