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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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Distillation
from the series new inventions and discoveries, Philips Galle after Jan van der Straet, c. 1589 - c. 1593

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16 June 1623: John Lambe astrologer & quack doctor indicted for rape On 13 June 1628 he would be stoned to death by a crowd.

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This title is just too good not be shared:
"Psyche Served in Her Bath by Nymphs She Cannot See"
c. 1530-1540
(Art Institute Chicago)

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16 June 1581: William Watson, seminary priest, enters disguised as a sailor (BM)

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Adam and Eve at Work
Domenico Fetti, c.1589–1624.

Eve is spinning, evoking the themes of clothing and of the loss of innocence. Adam is ploughing the land. Cain and Abel, their children, are also here.
(The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London)

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15 June 1623: b. Cornelis de Witt who was second to Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter in the raid on the Medway in 1667. Cornelis was killed on the same day as his brother Johan 20 Aug 1672 (The 2nd image is of their lynched bodies, Rijksmuseum)

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15 June 1580: Philip II of Spain outlaws William the Silent

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White Rose of York [Rosa alba] with a stag beetle,
Book of Flower Studies
c.1510–1515, Master of Claude de France
(Met Museum)

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14 June 1170: Coronation of the ‘Young King' Henry by the Archbishop of to the fury of Archbishop Thomas à Beckett (BL/BM) The only time a living heir to the throne has been so crowned.

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On his feast day Saint Anthony of Padua
Possibly after Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, 1618-1682
(Art Institute Chicago)

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