8 May 1629: d. Frances Matthew [née Barlow] #otd
She gave her husband Archbishop Tobie Matthew's library of 6,000 vols to the Dean & Chapter of #York.
She left her Catholic convert son Toby a diamond ring.
5 May 1561: Henry Percy 8th Earl of Northumberland & Thomas Young Archbishop of #York are commissioned #otd to adminster the Oath of Supremacy to the clergy of the northern province (National Trust images)
30 Apr 1565: First known record of Robert Peake #artist - as apprentice to the #London goldsmith Lawrence Woodham. Here are his Henry Frederick Prince of #Wales (NMM) & Charles (I) as Duke of #York (Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives)
30 Apr 1662: b. Mary (II), future #Queen at St. James' Palace #otd eldest daughter of James Duke of #York & Anne Hyde. Prince Rupert stood godfather to her. (NPG)
30 Apr 1648: Having escaped #London wearing specially made girls' clothes, James Duke of #York arrives at the Hague #otd to be greeted by his sister Mary Henrietta & her husband William II of Orange. They had no idea, of course, of what lay forty years ahead... (NMM)
27 Apr 1594: After 2 months solitary in the Tower St Henry Walpole SJ undergoes his first examination by Sarjeant Drewe, Sir Edward Coke & Richard Topcliffe #otd
21 Apr 1639: At #York, William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye & Seal refuses #otd a military oath demanded by Charles I that nobility commit their lives & fortunes to his cause against the #Scots: "to goe & kill a man in #Scotland he was not satisfyed of the lawfullness therof" (NPG)
5 Apr 1671: The body of Anne Hyde, Duchess of #York, wife of James (II) is interred #otd in the Mary Queen of #Scots vault at #Westminster Abbey (National Trust images)
2 Apr 1527: Adam Sedbergh last #Cistercian abbot of Jervaulx #Yorkshire is ordained deacon #otd at #York 10 years later on 26 May 1537 he would be executed after attainder for involvement with the Pilgrimage of Grace & on his death, the abbey reverted to the Crown (AStamp)