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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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Marigold [Calendula Arvensis], with a blue butterfly, Book of Flower Studies c. 1510-15, Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)

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29 Apr 1521: Martin Bucer theologian released from his vows becoming a secular priest. He later had a career in - where he was buried in 1551, before being exhumed & burnt under Mary I

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Portrait of (Christophle le More?) by Jan Jansz Mostaert, c. 1525 - c. 1530.

Christophle le More was employed at the court of Emperor Charles V in Brussels as an archer bodyguard. The Maria insignia on the cap recalls a pilgrimage to Halle in Brabant (Rijksmuseum)

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27 Apr 1613: d. Luke Challoner, an important figure in the establishment of Trinity College and father-in-law, through his daughter Phoebe, to Archbishop James Ussher of (NLI)

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25 Apr 1653: John Rogers proposes a godly Sanhedrin of seventy men to govern the Commonwealth (eebo/BM) Imagine if they had done it...

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24 Apr 1731: d. Daniel Defoe at Rope Maker's Alley City of (NMM)

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The Temptation of Christ by the Devil
c. 1633/35
by Christoffel Jegher, after Peter Paul Rubens
(Met Museum)

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23 Apr 1549: theologians Martin Bucer & Paul Fagius arrive in they spend several months with Archbishop Cranmer. In 1557 their corpses were exhumed & retrospectively burnt for heresy (BM)

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Musica, Bacchus, Amor, 1575-1600 by Johann Sadeler I (Met Museum)
Essential guests at any decent party

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Roger Knight, Mayor of in 1615 & 1623 (Reading Museum & Town Hall)

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