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19 Aug 1531: Matthew Parker, future Archbishop of #Canterbury attends the burning of Thomas Bilney #evangelical preacher at Lollard's Pit #London #otd (NPG/BM) @DrStevenMFoster
18 Aug 1276: d. Adrian V
18 Aug 1503: d. Alexander VI
18 Aug 1559: d. Paul IV
A bad date for #Popes !
18 Aug 1626: Jeremy Taylor future devotional writer & bishop of Down & Connor admitted to @CaiusCollege
#Cambridge as a sizar #otd
15 Aug 1552: John Bale #writer & polemical reformer meets Edward VI at #Southampton #otd & is promised the diocese of #Ossory in #Ireland (Bm/eebo) @DrStevenMFoster
15 Aug 1627: d. Rose of #Lima 3rd Order of St. Dominic - the first saint of the Americas (BM) #otd #nuntastic Her feast is on 23 Aug
Cape Gooseberry [Physalis peruviana], Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)
13 Aug 1648: Oliver Cromwell joins forces with John Lambert at Knaresborough #otd They then proceed to defeat the #Scots at Preston 17-19 Aug (@MuseumCromwell /NPG)