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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

28 Aug 1647: James Butler, Earl of Ormond leaves #Ireland #otd for royalist exile on the continent (NPG) Later he would become a very infuential adviser to the exiled Charles II.

"Do Not Eat Beans"
Or if they’re not good enough for Pythagoras they’re not good enough for you.

French 1512/1514
Speculum principis [Mirror for Princes]

(National Gallery of Art, Washington)

24 Aug 1648: Katherine 'Orinda' Fowler #writer & #translator m. Col James Philips #London #otd (BM)

23 Aug 1572: On the eve of St Bartholomew's day Catherine de Medici goes to see her son Charles IX about the crisis caused by the attempted assassination of Gaspard de Coligny, Seigneur de Châtillon the previous day. Massacre would follow.

19 Aug 1648: Oliver Cromwell & John Lambert at Knaresborough #defeat the #Scots forces at Preston #otd

(@MuseumCromwell/NPG)

16 Aug: feast of St. Roch, patron of plague victims, #dogs &c #otd (BM) Very popular in middle ages & early modern period for good reason. And being more remembered these days too

15 Aug 1651: At #Dublin, John Rogers Fifth Monarchist, proposes #otd that ministers from New England be sent to #Ireland

(University of Toronto Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection)

15 Aug 1660: Charles II's visitors to #Oxford order removal of 'intruded' fellows & restoration of 'lawful & undoubted' fellows #otd