John McCafferty

Historian. Academic. Lover of archives, dead friars, old buildings and anything before 1700. Tweeting in personal capacity.

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@dramdarcy Never not at it, as they say

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Wednesday 11 Nov, Dublin

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Head of a Woman, c. 1500-1525.
Circle of Michel Colombe

(The Cleveland Museum of Art)

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10 Nov 1554: Patent for Reginald Cardinal Pole’s legatine jurisdiction issued #otd

But he didn’t display his insignia though until his attainder was reversed on the 22nd

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From the days when Archbishops of Canterbury claimed to know it all ...

George Abbot, A briefe description of the whole world Wherin ...written by the Right Reverend Father in God, George, late Archbishop of Canterburie, 1634

(NPG)

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Marie Louise d'Orleans, Reyne dEspagne
1682

Published by the widow of Pierre Bertrand

(British Museum)

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17th century pewter spoon.

A little survival of everyday life.

(Rijksmuseum)

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10 Nov 1580: Surrender of the Papally-backed garrison at Smerwick #Kerry #otd

Walter Ralegh oversees the massacre of 600+ people (NPG)

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Daniel Featley, Calvinist Royalist, in his shroud, frontispiece to William Loe, 'A sermon preached... at the funerall of that learned and polemicall divine, Daniel Featley' (London, 1645).

British Museum

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On the birthday of Martin Luther #otd 10 Nov 1483, here's a 1521 medal showing him in his doctoral bonnet and declaring:
"If Luther is guilty of any heresy, Christ will also be [found] guilty of this offence"

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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William Camden (1551-1623), Antiquary and historian

Unknown artist, 1636.

(NPG)

William Camden

by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
oil on panel, 17th century, based on a work of 1609

(NPG)

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10 Nov 1551: d. Robert Wauchope of Nidrie Marischal near Edinburgh, Archbishop of Armagh #otd in Paris

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A broadside commemorating the wedding of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg and Magdalena, Duchess of Bavaria #otd 10 Nov 1613.

(Cologne, Altzenbach: 1613

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Keeping his pet clean.

Watercolour after Gerard Ter Borch II, 1632-1681

(British Museum)

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Two 1650s doggies
Gesina ter Borch, c. 1654 - c. 1658
Rijksmuseum

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Farthing token, 1651

AT . THE . WATER . SPANEL
IN SOVTHWARKE . 1651

(British Museum)

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'To agree like cat & dog', 15th century French

(Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD)

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Sleeping spaniel,
Jan Verkolje, c. 1680-90

(British Museum)

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Most parties end with people going home, this one ends more permanently.

Merry company disturbed by death
Gesina ter Borch (signed by artist), 1660

Rijksmuseum

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Scratching Pug Dog, Gilt bronze, German (possibly Nuremburg), c. 1590-1630

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)