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jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

9 June 1551: Patrick Walsh is nominated as Bishop of Waterford & Lismore #otd - a crown appointment but consecrated according the Roman ordinal. He was later absolved of schism by Cardinal Pole. He ended up recognised by both sides.

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9 June: Translation feast of St Edmund of Abingdon Archbishop of Canterbury #otd Canonized 1246.

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

9 June: Translation feast of St Edmund of Abingdon Archbishop of Canterbury #otd Canonized 1246.

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

Friesian country girl embraced by her mother, c. 1695-1730
Bernard Picart

(British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

9 June 1570: Edmund Grindal is installed by proxy #otd as Archbishop in #York Minster (Old Schools, Cambridge)

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jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

9 June 1570: Edmund Grindal is installed by proxy #otd as Archbishop in #York Minster (Old Schools, Cambridge)

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9 June 1312: Piers Gaveston, favourite of Edward II, seized by the Earl of #Warwick #otd First imprisoned in Warwick Castle & then beheaded near Kenilworth Warwickshire on 12 June.

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9 June 1500: Henry VII & Archduke Philip the Handsome meet outside #Calais #otd (NPG)

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jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to edinburgh

9 June 1638: James, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Charles I’s royal commissioner for resolving the #Scottish Troubles arrives #Edinburgh #otd In vain.
Four days earlier a 100 of his kin & clients disobeyed his summons to meet at Dalkeith. (NGS)

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

9 June 1523: Patrick Hamilton, future #Protestant martyr, 1529, is incorporated into the University of St Andrews on the same day #otd as

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9 June 1619: Bruno Ryves, future royalist journalist & later Dean of Windsor, proceeds BA at New College #Oxford #otd (BM)

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9 June 1656: Thomas Tomkins of St. David's, composer is buried #otd (eebo)

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9 June: traditional death date of Baithéne, first cousin & immediate successor of St. Columba, abbot of #Iona who died 9 June 597. Baithéne died 598x600. His name survives in Taughboyne Co. Donegal where there was a church dedicated to him.

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

Two 17th century visual reworkings of St. Colmcille or Columba of Iona whose feast it is #otd on 9 June, d. 597. Both turn him into a #Benedictine. (JMcC/BM)

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jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

Crown for a statue of the Blessed Virgin: copper-gilt set with crystals, foiled pastes and imitation pearls, Fribourg, Switzerland dated 1566, by Hans Schmaltz.

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

Young Woman with a Red Necklace
c. 1645
Style of Rembrandt (Met Museum)

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to london

9 June 1655: Sir Geoffrey Palmer committed to the Tower of #London #otd on suspicion of raising forces against Cromwell. In 1641 as an MP he described the majority in Parliament as a 'rabble' led by 'a juggling junto'. Became Attorney General in 1660 (Norfolk Museums Service)

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

9 June 1612: the funeral at Hatfield #otd of Robert Cecil Earl of Salisbury #otd - James VI & I's 'little man of business' It was captured in print by Richard Johnson, popular writer's 1612 publication.

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jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to bristol

9 June 1539: the Mayor of #Bristol informs Archbishop Cranmer #otd that the #Scottish preacher George Wishart has been put on trial for remarks in sermons (which may have included a hint that Christ's suffering was only exemplary). Wishart was executed at St Andrews 1546. (NGS)

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

Frog Pendant
11th–16th century, Chiriquí - now Costa Rica/Panama
Gold, 10.5 × 10.2 × 2.5 cm
(Met Museum)

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to ireland

9 June 1583: d. Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex & Lord Lieutenant of #Ireland after a long illness #otd He was husband of the Francis Sidney, foundress of Sidney Sussex College
(National Trust images/ Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge)

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jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to ireland

9 June 1626: Edward King admitted to Christ's College Cambridge #otd where he was assigned William Chappell future Bishop of Cork as tutor. Chappell had just rusticated John Milton who wrote 'Lycidas' when King drowned at sea on his way home to #Ireland in 1637

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jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

The V&A catalogue entry here is enjoyable:
"a game-cock strutting against a dark green background"
c. 1610-1620, Deccan.

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to london

9 June 1618: d. Oliver Lambart, 1st Baron Lambart of Cavan #otd in #London. Heavily involved in the Nine Years War & the #Ulster Plantation, he was buried in Westminster Abbey on 10 June

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9 June 1611: Giles Tomson, Dean of Windsor, consecrated Bishop of #Gloucester at Lambeth #otd He had been one of 8 Oxford theologians involved with the Greek New Testament for the Authorised Version. He died in June 1612, never having gone to Gloucester (Aurelien Guichard)