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23 Apr 1549: #Protestant theologians Martin Bucer & Paul Fagius arrive in #England #otd they spend several months with Archbishop Cranmer. In 1557 their corpses were exhumed & retrospectively burnt for heresy (BM)
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Musica, Bacchus, Amor, 1575-1600 by Johann Sadeler I (Met Museum)
Essential guests at any decent party
Corporal works of mercy - visiting prisoners and captives.
Nicolas de Mathonière, 1610-1625
Those lads in the stocks/chains are going to have trouble eating...
(British Museum)
Roger Knight, Mayor of #Reading in 1615 & 1623 (Reading Museum & Town Hall)
Artichoke [Cynara cardunculus] and lamprey [Silene coronaria] after Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1640 - with squirrel
(Rijksmuseum)
20 Apr 1560: Edmund Bonner deprived bishop of #London placed in the Marshalsea again #otd where he had been banged up a decade previously (TCC/BM) #tudormerrygoround
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Rosary maker, 15thC
(Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg | Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
Giant baler (Melo amphora) shell c.1646
Wenceslaus Hollar.
(British Museum)