John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

2 Feb 1653: New #Amsterdam (predecessor of New #York) is incorporated #otd #NYC (NYPL)

30 Jan: feast of St. Martina patron of #Rome #otd Her relics of Martina were discovered 25 Oct 1634 by the painter Pietro da Cortona, in a crypt of Santi Luca e Martina. (El Greco - she’s on the left with the palm)

29 Jan 1622: Francis Norris, Earl of Berkshire, shoots himself with a crossbow at his home at Rycote, Oxfordshire #otd Died 2 days later. Had humiliated himself by insulting Lord Scrope in the House of Lords the previous year in front of Charles, Prince of Wales (BM)

28 Jan 1621: d. Camillo Broghese #otd Pope Paul V, who granted the Bull founding St. Anthony's #Irish #Franciscan College #Leuven in 1607 (The Bull - which is now in @ucdarchives)

27 Jan 1606: As Guy Fawkes and seven others stand trial in #Westminster Hall #otd only Sir Everard Digby pleads guilty. Forty three years later #otd Charles I would be condemned to death at the same spot - Digby's son Kenelm had been a member of his Privy Council

26 Jan 1554: A levy of 600 troops is imposed #otd on the City of #London to counter Thomas Wyatt's rebellion against Queen Mary I (Weiss)

23 Jan 1606: 4 days before his execution Everard Digby, Gunpowder Plotter, writes a final letter to his children including Kenelm - below. Kenelm would be a privateer , duellist & much else as well as Henrietta Maria’s representative to the Papacy in the 1640s (NPG)

22 Jan 1664: Thomas Shadwell #playwright & #poet marries Anne Gibbs #otd I hope he wore this Samsonesque wig on the day... #UpstageTheBride

A 17th century perfume bottle stopper - I hope that the scent was as good as the blingy bottle (BM)

21 Jan 1644: James Butler, Marquis of Ormond sworn Lord Lieutenant of #Ireland #otd aged 33, he was very, understandably reluctant. He was the first Irish born viceroy for a long time (NPG)