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2 Mar 1551: John Redman first Master of Trinity College #Cambridge preaches at Martin Bucer's funeral #otd (EdinburghU/BM/eebo) @DrStevenMFoster
2 Mar 1600: Gervase Babington Bishop of #Worcester preaches for Elizabeth I #otd at #Whitehall - his fawning glances at the Earl of #Essex result in him being barred from the pulpit (BM)
1 Mar 1622: Marco Antonio de Dominis Archbishop of Spalato explains why he had left the CofE (having earlier left the Roman church) - he found the king more welcoming than the bishops (BM)
28 Feb 1557: Osip Nepea representative of Tsar Ivan IV parades through the streets of #London with the Lord Mayor & aldermen to lodge in Fenchurch St (BM)
28 Feb: feast #otd of St Oswald of #Worcester, Archbishop of #York, grandson of a #Viking, he died while washing the feet of the poor on 29 Feb 992 (BM)
28 Feb 1627: Charles I orders Robert Maxwell Earl #Nithisdale #otd to raise 3000 #Scots troops for Christian IV of #Denmark in Lower Saxony @Prof_Murdoch
A young couple reading a book together, possibly by Esaias van de Velde, 1625 - 1630 (Rijksmuseum)