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Nell Gwyn's parentage remains uncertain: her father might have been a royalist officer, Captain Gwyn, her grandfather possibly a canon of @ChCh_Oxford.
Pepys thought her a fine comic actress, but not so good in more dramatic parts
#theatre #twitterstorians #OTD 1651

There were various options open to #Parliament in settling the #Revolution: 1) invite James II back under limitations; 2) make William of Orange king; 3) make Princess Mary queen; 4) make William & Mary joint monarchs
#OTD 1689 #GloriousRevolution #twitterstorians

The death of the 7th earl of Leicester in 1743 resulted in a battle royal between his illegitimate daughter, Anne, & his niece, Elizabeth Perry, the one referred to as 'the Fairy' & the other as 'the Empress of Penshurst'. The Empress won.
#twitterstorians #HistParl

Yesterday's events in Washington a reminder of how easy it was to infiltrate the porous old palace of #Westminster👇
https://t.co/GapxjsPx8L
#HistParl #twitterstorians

#OnThisDay 1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard & Dr John Jeffries crossed the #Channel from Dover to Calais in a balloon, though only after an unseemly argument resulting in Blanchard having to prove he was not weighted down by lead underwear
#twitterstorians #Travel

#January 1731, Lincolnshire schoolmaster Stephen Harrison is taken ill at dinner 'which it's thought was occasioned by a piece of a gizzard of a goose which he swallowed too hastily, & expired immediately'
#twitterstorians #chewyourfood #BSECS21

Getting to grips with latest book for review & attention drawn to reference to Plautus's ever useful advice:
"Cast not thy meat into a pisspot"
#quoteoftheday #twitterstorians

Three days before #Christmas 1747 Fitzwalter discharged his footman, Charles Woollam, paying him off with £2 19s: "an idle, stupid, drunken, good-for-nothing fellow"
#MerryChristmas #twitterstorians

"he could judge with calmness & correctness on the data submitted to him, though perhaps not very quickly":
died #OnThisDay 1828 Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of #Liverpool, #PrimeMinister from 1812-1827
#twitterstorians #HistParl

At the Court of Q Anne, both the 'Proud Duke' of Somerset (died #OnThisDay 1748) & Duchess (known as 'Carrots') were highly influential. Jonathan Swift attacked her in 'The Windsor Prophecy':
Root out these Carrots, O Thou whose Name
Is backwards & forwards always the same [Anna] https://t.co/epjIlK7J6n