John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Anthony Van Dyck, Katherine, Countess of Chesterfield, and Lucy, Countess of Huntingdon c. 1636-40 (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)

14 Jan: feast #otd of Macrina the Elder. She d. 340 & was grandmother of St Basil, St Gregory Nyssa & St Macrina the younger . (StTaklaOrg) #pedigree

13 Jan 1531: As Henry VIII's 'Great Matter' rumbles on, Clement VII's nuncio visits William Warham Archbishop of #Canterbury #otd to bid him "have regard to God, his conscience and the Pope". (NPG)

The Milkman, Cornelis Dusart, c. 1675-1685.

A calm little snapshot of the past for this less calm present.

(British Museum)

Titus Oates "his degrees", 1685

"Being advanced to ye Pillory, Debase'd to ye Carte Arse, and expected by his old friend to higher preferment"

(British Museum)

11 Jan 1632: Katherine Fowler, later Phillips, #poet #translator, baptised at St Mary Woolchurch #London #otd (BM) 'Matchless Orinda'.

Her ‘Pompée’ was premiered in Smock Alley #Dublin on 10 Feb 1663

@smockalley
@OldDublinTown

Saint Christopher Meets Satan c. 1480/85 by Martín de Soria (Art Institute Chicago) These are pretty benign looking satanic hosts ...

10 Jan 1560: following Elizabeth I's accession, John Bale former #Carmelite, then evangelical #Protestant, polemicist, playwright, antiquarian & bishop of #Ossory is made a canon of #Canterbury cathedral #otd (BM/eebo)
He never went back to #Ireland which he’d fled under Mary I.

9 Jan 1520: Girolamo Ghinucci, auditor of the Apostolic Chamber, declares Frederick III, elector of Saxony, an enemy of the Church for protecting the theologian Martin Luther #otd

Ghinucci was made bishop of #Worcester 1522, Henry VIII replaced him with Hugh Latimer in 1535.

7 Jan 1645: John Lilburne #Leveller turns his guns, in print, on William Prynne, an old ally #otd (eebo/BM)