John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

22 Mar 1644: Besiegers of Newark surrender to Prince Rupert #otd (BM) He takes 11 brass cannon, 50 barrels of gunpowder & 4,000 muskets

15 Mar 1604: James VI & I first enters #London through seven triumphal arches designed by Stephen Harrison with text by Ben Jonson #otd

9 Mar 1616: Francis Beaumont, playwright, interred in #Westminster Abbey near #Chaucer & #Spenser #otd

White lily (Lilium candidum), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610

(Rijksmuseum)

Diane de Poitiers in a chariot drawn by lions, c. 1600
Limoges

She was mistress to Henri II and a strong influence up to his death in 1559

(British Museum)

2 Mar 1643: Prince Maurice, 5th child of Elizabeth of #Bohemia & Frederick V, is made general of horse & foot for #Gloucestershire and South #Wales #otd (BM)

28 Feb 1557: Osip Nepea representative of Tsar Ivan IV parades through the streets of #London with the Lord Mayor & aldermen to lodge in Fenchurch St (BM)

The secret lives of 17th century #owls (BM) Reading by candle light in 1625, and out on a skate date in 1644.

Bathsua [Reginald] Makin, 1600-c. 1675, scholar, linguist & promoter of education for women.

Advocate of the methods of Comenius & correspondent with Anna Maria van Schurman.

"the greatest scholler, I think, of a woman in England" - Simonds D'Ewes, 1622.

(British Museum)

23 Feb 1554: Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk and father of Lady Jane Grey is executed in the Tower of #London #otd (NPG/BM)

He'd tried, in vain, to escape dressed as a servant.