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27 Apr 1613: d. Luke Challoner, an important figure in the establishment of Trinity College #Dublin and father-in-law, through his daughter Phoebe, to Archbishop James Ussher of #Armagh (NLI) @OldeEire @OldDublinTown
25 Apr 1653: John Rogers proposes a godly Sanhedrin of seventy men to govern the Commonwealth #otd (eebo/BM) Imagine if they had done it...
The Temptation of Christ by the Devil
c. 1633/35
by Christoffel Jegher, after Peter Paul Rubens
(Met Museum)
#StonesToBread
23 Apr 1549: #Protestant theologians Martin Bucer & Paul Fagius arrive in #England #otd they spend several months with Archbishop Cranmer. In 1557 their corpses were exhumed & retrospectively burnt for heresy (BM) @DrStevenMFoster
Musica, Bacchus, Amor, 1575-1600 by Johann Sadeler I (Met Museum)
Essential guests at any decent party
Roger Knight, Mayor of #Reading in 1615 & 1623 (Reading Museum & Town Hall)
20 Apr 1560: Edmund Bonner deprived bishop of #London placed in the Marshalsea again #otd where he had been banged up a decade previously (TCC/BM) #tudormerrygoround @DrStevenMFoster