John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

4 Sept 1666: The Royal Exchange #London burns in the #GreatFire #otd (BM)

29 July 1588: Martin Frobisher's 'The Triumph' again clashes protractedly with the #Spanish flagship the 'San Martín' off #Gravelines #otd #Armada

25 July 1632: George Abbot Archbishop of #Canterbury makes his will #otd - among his bequests was £100 to Princess Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of #Bohemia (NPG/BM) He died Aug 1633.

20 July 1603: Walter Ralegh placed in Tower of #London where he made a botched/unconvincing suicide attempt with a table knife #otd (NPG/BM)

12 June 1549: Eight year-old Lady Jane Seymour writes #otd to #Protestant theologians Martin Buber & Paul Fagius thanking them for the gift of books they'd sent. In 1557 the bodies of Bucer & Fagius would be exhumed in #Cambridge & respectively burnt for heresy (GAP/BM/SJC)

27 May 1541: Bl. Margaret Pole Countess Salisbury executed - her beheading was badly botched #otd at Tower #London (NPG - possible portrait) Cardinal Reginald's mum

26 May 1650: Oliver Cromwell leaves #Youghal Co. #Cork for #England #otd ( @MuseumCromwell ) there he goes...

St. Bridget of Sweden doing some #nunastic writing (BM)

As the execution date [30 Jan] of Charles I approaches here's a satirical print from 1649 that lays the blame on ... Satan & Cromwell (BM)

Study of St Jerome - Dürer - finally solves mystery of how you store your cardinal’s hat (BM)