Given as a gift of thanks to Philip II for having waived the taxes & tariffs owed by the inhabitants of #Leuven for twelve years after the city was decimated by the plague in 1578.
28 Mar 1564: John Fenn of Montacute #Somerset, future priest, translator & chaplain to the #English sisters of St Monica's #Louvain matriculates at the university of #Leuven#otd (eebo)