22 May 1589: Edmund Spenser #poet gains official possession of Kilcolman Castle #Cork#otd at a rent of £20, settles 6 householders there with their families ((C-Kilcol/PCC)
22 May 1579: Christopher St Lawrence, 7th baron #Howth in Castle Chamber court at #Dublin#otd accused of beating his 13 year old daughter Jane so cruelly that she died two days later and of maltreating his wife (twosheds)
22 May 1137: Richard of Dover, Archbishop of #Canterbury presides over the introduction of #Benedictine nuns from Fontevrault at Amesbury #Wiltshire#otd (Matthew Black)
39 years ago today
Portrait of the music group Lords of the New Church at the Metro, Chicago, Illinois, May 22, 1985. Pictured are, from left, Dave Tregunna, Stiv Bators, Nicky Turner, and Brian James
21 May 1623: Archibald Hamilton, a Scot, appointed Church of #Ireland bishop of Killala & Achonry #otd His wife had been nurse to Princess Elizabeth Stewart Queen of [#Bohemia]
21 May 1614: Sir Henry Wotton makes a forceful speech in the House of Commons #otd defending James I's right to levy impositions not as an elective but as a hereditary monarch #otd.
Wotton once described a diplomat as: 'a man sent to lie abroad for his country' (NPG)
21 May 1661: Robert Mosson, future bishop of Derry, Dean of Christ Church #Dublin is elected Prolocutor of the Lower of House of Convocation of the Church of #Ireland#otd (Miedema)
21 May 1601: Matteo de Oviedo #Franciscan#Spanish hibernophile Archbishop of #Dublin receives the pallium #otd - he had been consecrated on 16 July 1600 (BM)
21 May 1561: Richard Davies, a translator of the New Testament into #Welsh#Cymraeg (eebo) translated #otd from St. Asaph to the bishopric of St. David's