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22 Mar 1644: Newark surrenders to Prince Rupert #otd (BM) He takes 11 brass cannon, 50 barrels of gunpowder & 4,000 muskets
22 Mar 1556: Cardinal Reginald Pole is consecrated Archbishop of #Canterbury #otd in succession to Thomas Cranmer who had been burnt the previous day (NPG)
22 Mar 1454: Archbishop John Kemp, Lord Chancellor of #England Cardinal, d at #Lambeth Palace #otd @lampallib @LondonHistorian
21 Mar 1534: Girolamo Ghinucci deprived of his bishopric of Worcester as alien & non-resident #otd ( PHalley) - an early casualty of Henry VIII's supremacy
21 Mar 1480: John Islip clothed as a #Benedictine monk #otd He would go on, in 1500, to become the last Abbot of #Westminster Abbey before Henry VIII's break with #Rome (BM)
21 Mar 1608: College of Physicians withdraw Robert Fludd, occult writer & cabbalist’s licence #otd for his alleged anti-Galenic opinions (BM)
Five Women in an Interior attributed to Dirck van Delen c. 1630 - c. 1652 (Rijksmuseum)
19 Mar 1637: d. Cardinal Peter Pazmany #Jesuit primate of #Hungary , orator, writer #otd Buried in #Bratislava