jdmccafferty

jdmccafferty, 1 hour ago to Scotland

9 May 1538: Mary of Guise marries James V of #Scotland (by proxy) at Châteaudun #otd

jdmccafferty, 1 hour ago to random

Bouffon dansant
Hans Sebald Beham, c. 1500-1550

(Musée du Louvre)

jdmccafferty, 1 hour ago to random

9 May 348: d. Pachomius (Apa Pachom) feast (Coptic), founder of cenobitic monasticism (BM) #otd

jdmccafferty, 2 hours ago to random

9 May 1640: Thomas Hobbes' first work of political theory - The Elements of the Law - completed #otd & then circulated in manuscript

jdmccafferty, 2 hours ago to london

9 May 1215: King John grants Londoners the right to elect their own mayor #otd Yet they still opened the gates to his enemies soon after.. #London

jdmccafferty, 2 hours ago to ireland

9 May 1641: Charles I consults a small group of bishops about signing the attainder of the Earl of Strafford #otd former viceroy of #Ireland . He went ahead the next day.

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

Cabinet, English, 1620.

This is made of painted pine, inlaid with mother-of-pearl; the drawers lined with marbled paper. At 61cm high, it was designed for keeping jewellery &c.

(V&A Museum)

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jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

9 May 1691: the Marquis of St Ruth arrives in #Limerick #otd with arms & supplies for the Jacobite cause but, crucially, with no money (NLI)

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

9 May 1669: Peter Talbot #Jesuit Archbishop of #Dublin is consecrated at #Antwerp #otd (eebo/Harvard U)

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jdmccafferty, 7 hours ago to random

I love these images of the frailties and intimacies of everyday life.

Drawn by: Unknown
Formerly attributed to: Guercino
Formerly attributed to: Joost van Craesbeeck

c. 1600-1675

(British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 7 hours ago to random

Riches and poverty
c. 1540-1550
Sebald Beham

(British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 7 hours ago to random

A woman’s head, drawn twice, profile to left; wearing a headdress, looking down. c. 1646

Rembrandt

(British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 7 hours ago to random

9 May 1234: Edmund des Roches, Archbishop of #Canterbury threatens to excommunicate Henry III #otd unless he changed his manner of governance (McGlinchey)

jdmccafferty, 7 hours ago to london

9 May 1671:Disguised as a clergyman Col. Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of #London #otd (BM)

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jdmccafferty, 7 hours ago to random

9 May 1641: d. Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford. He built the square of Covent Garden, with the piazza and church of St. Paul's, employing Inigo Jones as architect. Also known for his project to drain The Fens of Cambridgeshire.
(Christie's/MetMuseum)

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jdmccafferty, 8 hours ago to random

9 May 1637: The churchwardens of #Worfield Shropshire agree to "Assess a Levey for the Boarding of the Seats in the said Church; and also to place such persons in Convenient Seats, who heretofore have not had Convenient Places" (JTaylor2005)

jdmccafferty, 8 hours ago to Catroventos

9 May 1639: Sir Edmund Verney to Ralph Verney: "Our men are verry rawe, our armes of all sorts nawt, our vittle scarce, and provition for horses woarce", writing about the state of the #English army

(Edmund: The Chequers Trust; Ralph: PeerageDotCom)

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jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

Self-portrait, 1653, by Leendert van der Cooghen. b. #otd 9 May 1632, d. 18 Feb 1681. (British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, b. 22 Sept 1523 – d. #otd 9 May 1590 Unknown artist, c. 1580

The Catholic League proclaimed him king on the death of Henri III 1589 & he was recognized as Charles X by the parlement of Paris on 21 Nov 1589. (Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris)

jdmccafferty, 10 hours ago to random

Thursday 9 May #Dublin

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jdmccafferty, 20 hours ago to random

8 May 1528: William Tyndale’s Parable of Wicked Mammon is published #otd (eebo) Banned as heretical May 1530

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jdmccafferty, 21 hours ago to random

View of Lambeth seen across the busy Thames from Whitehall Stairs, Wenceslaus Hollar, 1643 - 1644 (Rijksmuseum) Someone is running to catch a boat

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jdmccafferty, 21 hours ago to Tobacconist

8 May 1590: William Paddy is sworn a member of the College of Physicians #otd

In 1620 he would be empowered to regulate the sale & quality of #tobacco (St John's Oxford)

jdmccafferty, 21 hours ago to random

8 May 1661: A new #parliament opens #otd at #Westminster. It's very cavalier. (Rijksmuseum)

jdmccafferty, 21 hours ago to random

8 May 1662: d. Peter Heylyn, prolific historian, biographer of William Laud and anti-puritan polemicist #otd (NPG)