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{{Year in England|1638}}Events from the year 1638 in England. Incumbents- Monarch – Charles I
- Secretary of State – Sir John Coke
Events- 18 April – flogging of John Lilburne for refusing to swear an oath when brought before the court of Star Chamber for distributing Puritan publications.[1]
- 12 June – trial of John Hampden for non-payment of ship money concludes.[1]
- 21 October – The Great Thunderstorm at Widecombe-in-the-Moor.
- The Queen's House at Greenwich, designed by Inigo Jones in 1616 as the first major example of classical architecture in the country, is completed for Henrietta Maria.[2]
- John Milton's Lycidas published.[3]
Births- 24 January – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, poet and courtier (died 1706)
- 6 May – Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (died 1696)
- 2 June – Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, politician (died 1709)
- 24 December – Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, diplomat (died 1709)
- William Sacheverell, statesman (died 1691)
Deaths- 14 September – John Harvard, clergyman and colonist (born 1607)
References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/timelines/1638.htm|title=1638, British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638–60|accessdate=2007-11-23}} 2. ^Display captions at house, October 2016. 3. ^{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|author2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=177–178|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
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