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1587

Christopher Marlowe1587

Arts / Literature

The Privy Council orders Cambridge University to award Marlowe his MA, denying rumours that he intended to go to the English Catholic college in Rheims, saying he had been engaged in unspecified "affaires" on "matters touching the benefit of his country"

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Christopher Marlowe

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