John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Pilgrims for the Holy Year 1575, Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri, in or after 1575 (Rijksmuseum)
The 'new' St Peter's rises up behind the 'old' here.

View of Olinda, Brazil, Frans Jansz. Post, 1662 (Rijksmuseum)

Olinda Cathedral was severely damaged when the Dutch conquered the region from the Portuguese in the 1630s.

9 May 1618: John Overall receives the congé d'élire as bishop of #Norwich #otd (NPG) He had questioned double predestination during the Hampton Court conference at the start of the reign of James I

9 May 1671:Disguised as a clergyman Col. Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of #London #otd (BM)

Charles I (1600–1649), King of England
1629 by Daniël Mijtens (Met Museum)

9 May 1679: Bl. Thomas Pickering #Benedictine hanged, drawn, quartered at Tyburn #otd as part of the 'Popish Plot'

Dark Mullein [Verbascum Nigrum] with a dragonfly, Book of Flower Studies c. 1510-15, Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)

5 May 1549: Martin Bucer & Paul Fagius theologians are presented to Edward VI #otd In 1557 the bodies of Bucer & Fagius would be exhumed in #Cambridge & retrospectively burnt for heresy (BM) @DrStevenMFoster

4 May 1535: William Exmew #Carthusian is pressed by Thomas Cromwell's agent Thomas Bedyll #otd as three #Carthusian priors go to their death to acknowledge the King's Supremacy. He was hanged with two of his confrères on 19 June (Museo Del Prado)

Avarice, Cornelis Bloemaert (II), after Abraham Bloemaert, 1626