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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)

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

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

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

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

13 June 1628: John Lambe, reputed sorcerer is stoned & killed by a #London mob #otd (NPG)

12 June 1334: Edward Balliol performs liege homage to Edward for the throne of #Scotland #otd (BL)

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)

12 June 1626: Mist rises off the #Thames after a freak storm near #York house, the Duke of Buckingham's #London residence. Londoners attribute it to the conjuring of John Lambe. They would stone Lambe to death in 1628.

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)