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"La reception faite au Roy d'Angleterre par le Roy a St. Germaine en Laye"
7 Jan 1689. Louis XIV embraces James II, Mary of Modena waits for her husband.
(British Museum)
25 July: Feast of St Christopher #otd a saint created by wordplay (BM)
Dragon lilyr, or dragonwort [Dracunculus vulgari], Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)
5 July 1597: Tobie Matthew, son of the bishop of #Durham takes MA at #Oxford #otd Later on high profile convert & exile - and translator to English of #nuntastic St Teresa of Avila (BM)