Friday, May 29, 2009

Office marmalade

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Here's a diablerie out of William Winstanley, Historical rarities and curious observations domestick & foreign (1684), a rat...
Saturday, May 23, 2009

The Yeoman of the Guard: Thomas Montague

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On an impulse, cycling past on an unaccustomed route back from work, I stopped at th...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Arbor vitae

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A page from the apothecary and gardener John Parkinson’s beautifully illustrated Parad...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Ere the spider make a thin curtain for your epitaphs

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The stillborn daughter of Walter and Deborah Dunch, from the monument described in my prior post.
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A Bunch of Dunches: Little Wittenham Church

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Out on a walk, a chance visit to the Church at Lit...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Those nut-cracking early moderns: Edmund Gayton on nuts

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The 17th century physician and failed wit Edmund Gayton, in his The art of longevity, or, A ...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Donne quoted in the coffee-house

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The Author of The women’s petition against coffee representing to publick consideration the grand inconveniencies accruing to their sex ...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

'Astrologi peritissimi': Lilly's tomb, Walton-on-Thames

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Over this Easter Saturday to Walton-on-Thames, and the Church of St Mary there, to see where the old fox William Lilly went finally to earth...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Falling out with Genethlialogia

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One for my fellow blogger at Wynken de Worde – a rath...
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