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A broadside with a rebus, satirising in form of a gypsy's prophecy Frederick V's defeat at the White Mountain & subsequent flight; with an etching showing a gypsy woman reading Frederick's hand, and with engraved title and dialogue text. [1621]
(British Museum)
The Visitation, from The Life of the Virgin.
Albrecht Dürer, c. 1504, published 1511.
(Art Institute Chicago)
3 Sept 1658: 3pm, Whitehall, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of #England,#Scotland & #Ireland dies #otd (BM)
31 Aug 1681: Stephen College 'the Protestant Joiner' is executed #otd in Oxford Castle Yard by Jack Ketch. A balladeer and satirist he attacked the coming succession of James II.
"By Irish oaths and wrested law I fell/
A prey to Rome & sacrifice to hell"
31 Aug 1660: Hugh Peter, Independent leader & preacher during the Commonwealth, proponent of the execution of Charles I & former minister of Salem Mass., arrested #otd Executed 16 Oct
24 Aug 1648: Katherine 'Orinda' Fowler #writer & #translator m. Col James Philips #London #otd (BM)
19 Aug 1648: Oliver Cromwell & John Lambert at Knaresborough #defeat the #Scots forces at Preston #otd
(@MuseumCromwell/NPG)