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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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Just been to my local supermarket. All was normal, except for the bareshelved absence of these two things. “Mad, Ted” as we say.

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15 Mar 44 BC: killing of Julius (1689 image from BM) version - which so makes up our default view of this event - was first performed in 1599

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15 Mar 1533: Ambassador Chapuys suggests that Katharine of Aragon be taken out of (NPG) Not an entirely bad idea...

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14 Mar 1640: Francis Bugg, ex-#Quaker & then anti-Quaker polemicist, baptized, Mildenhall, (BM)

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14 Mar 1689: The Convention of Estates meet in to declare throne of vacant & to proclaim William & Mary (BM)

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St Roch and the Angel
by Annibale Carracci,1560–1609.
(The Fitzwilliam Museum) Roch, whose wound was cured by the licking of a dog, is patron of plague victims. This isn’t like early modern plagues, but it is worth recalling his cult as a memory of what our ancestors endured (BM)

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14 Mar 1604: Sir Francis Verney, future pirate, knighted at the Tower of

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12 Mar 1643: James Butler Earl of reaches New Ross with the royal army (NPG) Supplies fail to arrive so he withdraws

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12 Mar 1637: b. Anne Hyde future 1st wife of James, Duke of - they married in secret in Sept 1660.

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11 Mar 1535: Richard Wharton sends one cock & four hen pheasants to Thomas Cromwell which he said had been brought up by his wife 'in her chamber' (BM)

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