Friday, September 25, 2009

Bishop Foxe's 'Ding-dong the witch is dead' moment

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I am swapping my ISP at the moment, and my access to Blogger here has been patchy....
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Holy Shittlington! Great ball of fire, 1628

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The following rather spectacular anecdote of ball lightning occurs in An apology, or, Defence of the div...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Of widow's peaks

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I was reading Sir John Melton’s Astrologaster, or, The figure-caster (1620) – a very ...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009

A London marriage gone sour, 1652

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My anecdote for the week comes from a newsletter, Thomas White’s Mercurius Heraclitus, or, The wee...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Pictures of Lilly!

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I have been away on holiday, to Cyprus, an isla...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Lucky to have got there in one piece: Sir John Davies, Pangbourne

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‘Under part of this monument lyeth the body of Sir John Davis K who received ye hon. of Knigh...
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Thursday, August 06, 2009

The breeches of Bussy D'Ambois

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One of the great deaths in Jacobean drama is that of Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois: impelle...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

"The Lecturer personating the Virgin Mary..."

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“About one a clock at night, the Lecturer personating the Virgin Mary … made another...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

March 31st, the festival day of Macbeth

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Simon Sheppard is one of the few mid 17 th century humourists who remain funny. Satur...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

"The daie passed with dyvers accy dents" - knighted at Rouen

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My main image is the brass of Sir Christopher Ly...
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