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12 June 1549: Eight year-old Lady Jane Seymour (niece of Queen Janes) writes #otd to theologians Martin Bucer & Paul Fagius thanking them for their gift of books. In 1557 the bodies of Bucer & Fagius were exhumed in #Cambridge & retrospectively burnt for heresy (GAP/BM/SJC)
11 June 1588: Possible birthdate #otd of the poet George Wither who very definitely was supported by Oliver Cromwell, for whom Wither wrote panegyrics (BM)
11 June 1487: The army of Lambert Simnel, who was using the title Edward VI, arrive in #Lancashire from #Ireland #otd and set off across the Pennines. They are beaten by Henry VII at Stoke on the 16th.
Instruments of Human Sustenance/Humani Victus Instrumenta: Agriculture
after 1569 In the manner of Giuseppe Arcimboldo
(Met Museum)
Four inhabitants of #Ireland: a noblewoman, a burgher's wife, and two 'wild' Irishmen, 1573-75
Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland (British Library Add MS 28330)
Wild Pea [Pisum sativum] with a moth, Book of Flower Studies
c. 1510–1515
Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)