Wednesday, June 30, 2010

An appetite for wonders: Robert Gell considers Marcle Hill

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Robert Gell made much of the subject of my last post, the Marcle Hill landslip, in his sermon to the Society of Astrologers, publish...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

At the site of 'The Miracle'

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Down for a weekend in Herefordshire, stopping at this very pleasant place, http://hallendhouse.co.uk/ Some part of what George Sandys ...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

'A worm the author of this book': William Ramesey's 'Helminthologia'

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This chap is William Ramesey, and the amazing bonnet he is wearing was probably designed as an extra container or sump for the overf...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Sparke's Notes

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My pictures are from The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New newly translated out of the originall tongues and with the...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Burn as many thousand years in hell, as there be spears of grass in Hyde Park, so saith Christ

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The yellovv book, or, A serious letter sent by a private Christian to the Lady Consideration, the first day of May, 1656 which she is d...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Monsieur Oufle's next extravagance: the Gale witchcraft database

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I have been sent a link for a trial look at Gale / Cengage Learning’s new database, ‘Witchcraft in Europe and America’. For my medium ...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

This trutination of sinnes: Edmund Campion's 'Decem rationes'

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Over to Stonor House, which I had not visited for many years. The house sits inconspicuously in dry side-valley of this chalk landscape...