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📅#OTD in 1643, House of Commons votes against an inquiry over losses in the west by 51 to 30.
It had been proposed by Lord General Essex after the defeats of his subordinate & rival, William Waller, at Roundway Down, Lansdown & the loss of Bristol.
#17thCentury
#EnglishCivilWar

@17thCenturyLady @RestorationHat @jdmccafferty @cheapsellotape @kristianjmartin @ARebelHand @TheFrameBlogMag This is Titian's Pardo Venus, which was hung behind the triple locks of Whitehall Palace's Privy Lodgings. After Charles I's execution, Col. John Hutchinson bought it for £600. One of the more pricier tags of the royal collection.
#StuartsSaturday #KeepitStuart

⚔️Naseby 375⚔️
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King Charles prepares to lead a reserve to support his embattled infantry
Sir Edw Walker:
'A person of quality, 'tis said the Earl of Carnwath, took the King's Horse by the bridle, turned him about, swearing at Him and saying, Will you go upon your death?'

📅#OTD in 1643, a royalist plot to capture London is uncovered.
Lady D'Aubingy smuggled the King's commission under her dress. But an intercepted letter of the Earl of Dover's, urging his wife to take the children & leave London, raises alarm. The plotters are arrested and ...

4️⃣ - PRINCE JAMES
1648. After 20 months in Parliament's custody, escaped St. James's Palace during a game of hide & seek. Dressed as a girl, despite a tailor's suspicions over his proportions & then plucking at his leg in an 'unwomanish manner' the 14-year-old reached Holland.

4️⃣ - PRINCE JAMES
1648. After 20 months in Parliament's custody, escaped St. James's Palace during a game of hide & seek. Dressed as a girl, & despite a tailor's suspicions over his proportions & then plucking at his leg in an 'unwomanish manner' the 14-year-old reached Holland.

OTD in 1643, Earl of Essex besieged Reading. Disaster dogged the Royalists. Governor Aston struck on the head in a cannonade (roof tile) & knocked unconscious. His deputy surrenders 10 days later despite the King attacking Essex outside town. Was it treachery?

Essex L & Aston R

@17thCenturyLady thanks for the retweet today

Van Dyck's painting of Charles I - but where was it in the king's lifetime? It was hung on the back wall of a gallery in St James' Palace (red dot) framed within two preceding doorways to create an effect that almost brought it alive.

https://t.co/aluUZhrusy