John McCafferty

14 July 1663: Richard Baxter moves to Acton #Middlesex to devote himself to writing #otd (NPG)

"The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus", folio from a Falnama (Book of Omens) Persia, 1550s The Seven Sleepers and their dog Qitmir, who escaped persecution by miraculously sleeping in a cave for 309 years. (Met Museum) I am enjoying Satan's neck-snake here.

@paulg The ODNB article describes it as 'unprecedented'. Apparently he then turned his hand to writing about hunting wildfowl. As someone who often struggles to finish writing pieces, I take some succour from this story!

@jdmccafferty I had to reread that to be sure I was seeing a "no" there. Was this common?

The Drunken Silenus, 1628 José de Ribeira. Please admire his wine cup and, perhaps, ignore the "underage" drinking depicted therein. Though, being putti, they might be centuries old themselves? (British Museum)

Wine bowl made from a single piece of rock crystal. Mughal, from the reign of Shah Jahan, 19 Jan 1628 - 31 July 1658. (British Museum)

14 July 1617: Gervase Markham signs agreement #otd with Stationers' Company to write no more books on domestic animals & their diseases (BM) A "no-publish" agreement - sounds alluring.

14 July 1514: d. Cardinal Christopher Bainbridge #otd paves way for Thomas Wolsey to be Archbishop of #York (BM: snuffer w/ B'bridge's arms)

Orange and Lemon, c. 1575 Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 1538-1588 (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Madonna & child by Dieric Bouts ca. 1455–60 (Met Museum)

14 July 1349: d. Alexander Bicknor Archbishop of #Dublin (BM)

14 July 1679: Bl. Richard Langhorne, barrister, executed at #Tyburn #otd - a victim of the Popish Plot

14 July 1077: Consecration of Bayeux cathedral #France📷 #otd (mbzt)

14 July: feast #otd [in the US] of St Kateri Tekakwitha Algonquin-Mohawk woman who d. 17 Apr 1680 aged 24. She was canonized in 2012.

Tuesday 14 July, Dublin

13 July 1660: A patent of Charles II appoints Samuel Pepys clerk of acts at Navy Board #otd (NPG) #jobsfortheboys #restoration

13 July 1603: Henry Percy 9th Earl of #Northumberland spits in Francis Vere's face in the presence of James VI & I #otd Charming

Satin pin cushion, English, 1652 - the design in pins (Victoria & Albert Museum, London) There's something immensely soothing about this object.

13 July 1554: Philip (II) of #Spain📷 leaves La Coruna to marry Mary I of #England📷 #otd (BM)

13 July 1628: d. Count Robert Shirley #English-born ambassador of #Persia to the West #otd (Tate) What a turban...

13 July 1469: Margaret of #Denmark m. James III of #Scots at Holyrood Abbey #otd #Scotland📷 (SPeverley)