21 May 1549: Sir Edward Bellingham begins service as Lord Deputy of #Ireland#otd until 29 Dec 1549. Richard Stanihurst said of him: "feared for his severity & beloved for his integrity".
21 May 1641: d. Alessandro Cesare Scaglia, who helped with Charles I's #French match, at #Antwerp#otd & was buried in the #Franciscan Recollect habit. He was agent for the decoration of the Queen's House #Greenwich, but the work was never completed. (National Gallery London)
#otd 1388 died Kuno II of Falkenstein, archbishop and elector of Trier. He was buried in the St. Kastor Church in Koblenz. #medievaldeath#medieval@medievodons Pic.: Wikipedia Commons
This dish commemorates the marriage of John Garway and Mary Holgrave at St Gregory by St Paul's #otd 21 May 1663. Made in the Pickleherring pottery #Southwark (British Museum)
20 May 1627: Henry Leslie of Leslie, #Fife is presented to the Deanery of Down Cathedral #otd as a reward for preaching before Charles I in July 1625. He became Bishop of Down & Connor in 1635 - a close ally of William Laud and John Bramhall & an anti-Covenanter (eebo/ardfern)
20 May 1627: Henry Leslie of Leslie, #Fife is presented to the Deanery of Down Cathedral #otd as a reward for preaching before Charles I in July 1625. He became Bishop of Down & Connor in 1635 - a close ally of William Laud and John Bramhall & an anti-Covenanter (eebo/ardfern)
20 May 1624: George Abbot, Archbishop of #Canterbury presents a House of Commons petition to the Lords #otd proposing Catholics be barred from public office (NPG)
20 May 1614: Cardinal Bellarmine ordains Toby [Tobie] Matthew, a priest #otd Matthew was a high profile convert: writer & courtier, patron of #nuntastic Carmelites at #Antwerp and son of the Church of #England Archbishop of #York (JMcC/eebo/BM)
20 May 1640: Godfrey Goodman of Ruthin, Denbighshire, the bishop of #Gloucester refuses to consent to the new canons in Convocation #otd (Saffron Blaze)
20 May 1636: George Crawley of St Gabriel's Fenchurch St #London is licensed #otd as a surgeon after examination under the terms of 3 Henry c. 11 (Agas Map)
20 May 1603: Julius Caesar #otd [born as Cesare Adelmare at Tottenham] is knighted at #Greenwich#otd A civil lawyer, MP and Master of the Rolls. And possessor of a quite wonderful name. (NPG)
20 May 1560: John Feckenham #Benedictine & last abbot of #Westminster sent of the Tower of #London#otd for his opposition to the 1559 settlement. He died, still confined, in Wisbech Castle in 1584.
20 May 1521: Ignatius Loyola is wounded #otd at the Battle of #Pamplona, setting in motion a series of events that would lead to the foundation of the Society of Jesus or #Jesuit order
(1st image shows him helping St. Patrick to keep Ireland faithful, from @ucdarchives
/ BM)