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Pocahontas and John Rolfe. Tragic, fascinating, the subject of endless debate and controversy, but indubitably one of the most important of the era.

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2021-10-31

Sir William and Lady Dorothy Temple sheltered fourteen-year-old Lady Elizabeth Percy at their home in the Hague, after she fled from a forced marriage to a man she loathed. They remained close friends for decades.

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2021-10-23

Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle noted many aphorisms & nuggets of wisdom she associated with her husband.

'That there should be more Praying, and less Preaching; for much Preaching breeds Faction; but much Praying causes Devotion.'

Image:

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2021-09-12

Related to the drawing of the four musicians, is this drawing of two drummers by Rembrandt, circa 1638.

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2021-08-22

These magnificent beasts are sackbuts (not unlike modern trombones).
And here's Matthew Locke's Music For His Majesty's Sackbutts and Cornets, which I first heard with my mum in the crypt of St John's, Smith Sq, as a teenager. Enjoy it! https://t.co/EYCWZ2LdLV

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2021-08-21

Lady Johanna St.John's recipe book, 1680. Her writing. Her words and advice. Her apothecary measurements handy guide. Thinking how many times she referred to this, creating her curatives at Lydiard.

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2021-08-08

New York, New York, so good they named it... four times. New Amsterdam was taken by England in 1664 and renamed New York City after James, Duke of York.
The Dutch retook it in 1673 (3rd ADW) as New Orange. In the 1674 treaty NYC was returned to the English

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2021-07-31

A view from the south showing the Chatham dockyard burning, and (2) the flagship the Royal Charles, captured during the raid and displayed at Hellevoetsluis

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2021-07-31

Late as I've been pottering in the garden b/c it's such a gloriously sunny day here in Derbyshire...
HEAR YE! 'Tis time for This week's topic is:
❄️⛈️☀️*Weather events in the Stuart-era*☀️⛈️❄️
Jacob Adriaensz. Bellevois, (1621 – 1676), 'Ships on a Stormy Sea'.

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2021-07-10

Hear ye! 'Tis time for
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, son of James II (VII) & Arabella Churchill, was decapitated by a cannonball 12 June 1734.
This week's theme:
💀😱😖Grisly Stuart Ends😖😱💀

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2021-06-12

Here's one food item I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole--the golden apple that Paris of Troy had to award!

I think I'd try to hang out with the crowd on the left!

The Judgment of Paris
Joachim Anthoniz Wtewael, 1602


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2021-05-08

Sir John Cotton Showing his Mantuan Horses to Charles II at Newmarket (unknown artist, c1670, National Horse Racing Museum).
Charles loved horse racing; he restored the palace and stables at Newmarket and founded race meetings there

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2021-04-24

Frederik Hendrik and Maurits of Orange-Nassau by Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert. Palace Huis ten Bosch, Orange Hall

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2021-04-24

There's an exciting project to reconstruct the Lenox, a 70-gun third rater built in 1678 in Deptford. Can you imagine sailing in a full-size replica Restoration ship of the line?

Pic: Lenox and two other Navy ships fight a Spanish 70-gunner, 1740

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2021-04-10

Fubbs the yacht was scrapped in 1781, of course; Madam Carwell wasn't scrapped by Charles II, but remained in high favour until his death.
She returned to France and died in Paris on 14 November 1734, aged 85.

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2021-04-10