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@17thCenturyLady @shearwood_mark @HistoricEchoes @MarshsLibrary @johnalan57 @MuseumCromwell @jdmccafferty @RestorationTwt @RestorationHat @royalhistorian Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle noted many aphorisms & nuggets of wisdom she associated with her husband.
'That there should be more Praying, and less Preaching; for much Preaching breeds Faction; but much Praying causes Devotion.'
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#StuartsSaturday
The Battle of Barfleur, 19 May, 1692
Ludolf Backhuysen
National Maritime Museum, @RMGreenwich
@17thCenturyLady @Passamezzo @Sunday_Baroque @SocietyBaroque @jdmccafferty @EARLYMUSICPARTY @EMA_Tweets @CambsEarlyMusic @REMA_EarlyMusic @SHSBaroqueEns @HatchlandsNT @GlasgowMuseums She got her lesson on the flute in the end...!
John Smith, after M. Lauron, c. 1680 - c. 1700, @rijksmuseum
#StuartsSaturday #Duuuurt
@17thCenturyLady @Passamezzo @Sunday_Baroque @SocietyBaroque @jdmccafferty @EARLYMUSICPARTY @EMA_Tweets @CambsEarlyMusic @REMA_EarlyMusic @SHSBaroqueEns @HatchlandsNT @GlasgowMuseums St Cecilia
Claude Duflos, after Pierre Mignard, 1691-1703
@rijksmuseum
Woman Playing the Virginal
Jan Miense Molenaer, c. 1637
@rijksmuseum
#StuartsSaturday #KeepItMusical
John Ashburnham
Daniel Mytens, c. 1628-30
@NGVMelbourne
#WouldWear
August already so it is...
Here is a scene of the activities of the month--reaping & collecting the harvest (and August arses too).
French, c. 1580, @britishmuseum
@17thCenturyLady @JulesHumphrys @SGMacleanauthor @WromanticHistry @SarahDa97918083 @jdmccafferty @RoyalStuartSoc @MuseumCromwell @tudorfoodrecipe Here's one food item I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole--the golden apple that Paris of Troy had to award!
I think I'd try to hang out with the crowd on the left!
The Judgment of Paris
Joachim Anthoniz Wtewael, 1602
@ClevelandArt
#StuartsSaturday
On 2 November, 1678, the Duke of Ormond issued a proclamation: for the preservation of the publick peace, no Roman Catholic was permitted to ride with, carry, buy, use or keep in their houses halberts, pikes or firearms without license from him as Lord Lieutenant.
Image: BM
@jdmccafferty @MuseumCromwell @17thCenturyLady @Niamh_NicGhabh @PeritiaEditors Presumably Ireton's death isn't included in that estimate as he died at Limerick of a fever.
He was buried at @wabbey, but we know how that went...
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