John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

On the feast of Brigid - 1 Feb 1177: John de Courcy took Down(patrick) #otd The Bodies of Saints Patrick, Brigid, Colmcille, patrons of #Ireland were not long after 'discovered' there.

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

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

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)

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' #otd (BM)

A priest at the altar by Gesina Ter Borch, 1657 (Rijksmuseum)

9 Mar 1616: Francis Beaumont, playwright, interred in #Westminster Abbey near #Chaucer & #Spenser #otd
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6 Mar 1616: d. Francis Beaumont #otd, playwright, #poet, student of Ben Jonson, close collaborator with John Fletcher. Buried in #Westminster Abbey in May 1616. (NPG)

6 Mar 1660: Edward Montagu, who would become Earl of #Sandwich in July 1660, asks Samuel Pepys #otd to go to sea with him as his secretary

The finding of Moses floating on the Nile by Pharoah's daughter by the brilliant Gesina ter Borch, 1655 (Rijksmuseum)