jdmccafferty, 6 months ago to random

Portrait of Thomas Percy
#GunpowderPlot

Catalogue notes: 'This print must have been made before news reached Germany that Percy had not been arrested, but was shot dead while resisting arrest at Holbeach #otd 8 Nov 1605'.

(British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 6 months ago to random

7 Nov 1605: Under interrogation #otd 'John Johnson' reveals his real name: Guido Fawkes (BM) #gunpowderplot

Passamezzo, 6 months ago to earlymodern

Bravely deckt, come forth bright day.

A song for the 5th of November

from Thomas Campion's Two Bookes of Ayres, 1613

#earlymusic #earlymodern #gunpowderplot #otd #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory
@earlymusic @earlymodern

jdmccafferty, 9 months ago to random

7 Aug 1613: d. Sir Thomas Fleming, Lord Chief Justice of #England & a judge in the Guy Fawkes & co. trial #otd (NPG/Mike Searle) buried at North Stoneham #GunpowderPlot

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