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Historian. Academic. Lover of archives, dead friars, old buildings and anything before 1700. Tweeting in personal capacity.

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A broadside with a rebus, satirising in form of a gypsy's prophecy Frederick V's defeat at the White Mountain & subsequent flight; with an etching showing a gypsy woman reading Frederick's hand, and with engraved title and dialogue text. [1621]

(British Museum)

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12 Sept 1555: the trial of Thomas Cranmer begins in University Church (BM)

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12 Sept 1605: b. William Dugdale, herald and important antiquary at Shustoke, near Coleshill in Warwickshire
(U Toronto)

Here's a Gilbertine from his very influential Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655–1673 (British Museum)

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10 Sept: Feast of St. Aubert of who was ordered by Archangel Michael to start the construction of what became Mont Saint-Michel (GuildhallAG)

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10 Sept 1487: b. Giovanni Ciocchi del Monte, future Pope Julius III, 1550-1555 (BM) Pontiff during Mary I's reconciliation of her realms with

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The Pater Familias, study for a print; an interior with the father carefully feeding his baby, watched by his wife who holds some laundry in front of the fire-place
Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1648.

A side of 17thC masculinity you don't often see depicted.

(British Museum)

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9 Sept 1569: d. Pieter Breughel the elder & in

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9 Sept 1636: 140 Presbyterians sail for on 'Eagle's Wing', but are driven back by storms to (BM) . They had been facing increasing pressure to conform to the Church of Ireland.

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9 Sept 1674: d. Murrough O'Brien 1st Earl of Inchiquin (Manchester Gallery of Art/ British Museum)

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8 Sept 1637: d. Robert Fludd, physician, cabbalist & writer on the occult (BM)

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