– The Book of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations by Henry Ainsworth is the only book taken to New England by the Pilgrim Fathers.[2][3]
December 16
unknown dates
"The Water Poet" publishes The Praise of Hemp-Seed; with The Voyage of Mr. Roger Bird and the Writer hereof, in a Boat of browne-Paper, from London to Quinborough in Kent. As also, a Farewell to the matchlesse deceased Mr. Thomas Coriat in London, including the first mention in print of the deaths of Shakespeare and Francis Beaumont in 1616.
John Taylor
The first near-complete English-language translation of 's The Decameron, anonymous but attributed to John Florio and based on later French and Italian editions, is published by Isaac Jaggard in London.[4]
Boccaccio
The second version of appears.
The Ballad of Chevy Chase
by Bartolomé de las Casas and Origin and Progress of the Disturbances in the Netherlands by Johannes Gysius are republished in the Netherlands.[5]
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
– De curiositatis pernicie syntagma
Johann Valentin Andreae
's translation of Ptolemy's De Planetarum Hypothesibus
John Bainbridge
Jacob Boehme
– Examen errorum Photinianorum
Nicolaus Hunnius
'Kinde Kit (of Kingstone)' – Westward for Smelts, or, The Water-man's fare of mad-merry western wenches
– Septima Philosophica
Michael Maier
Feng Menglong
Illustrious Words to Instruct the World
Bishop , revised by Bishop Richard Parry and John Davies (Mallwyd) – Y Bibl Cyssegr-lan (Bible translation into Welsh)
William Morgan
unknown dates
Alexander Brome
probable
Mary Forster
March 1