Female property ownership and house transfers in 17thC Stockholm: Maria 'Jachopsdåtter' Neave (Näf). Beautiful document. Still basking in the find! #keephistoryempirical

Happy #WordsmithDay ! Alice Thornton (1626-1707) used word play in her books. In Book 1, we find an acrostic poem for her older brother, George Wandesford (1623-1651), and an anagram of his full name. Can you guess it? Clue: 17thC spelling at work!

Beautifully carved baptismal font.
Late 16thC or early 17thC.

St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church (AD 1320)

Galway (Ireland)

Molehill in #Heraldry . A very rare charge (mmm?)
The arms of (x) Tyndsley of Morley, Lancs.
The coloured image was taken from BL, Stowe MS 699 ( #16thcentury - #17thC ); the b/w image - from a late ed. (1679) of Guillim’s Display, published by Richard Blome.
#LesArmoiriesDuVendredi

CLOSE TO CHANGING!

Q+++

Vindication.
Vengeance.
Victory.
Q.

Delighted to be spending next week in Finland as a visiting scholar at Tampere University. My public lecture will be on the Capuchin Benet of Canfield & I'll also be discussing 17thC mysticism at a fab looking symposium on the topic! #CathHist #twitterstorians #mysticism #tampere

#April 24th #StMarksEve . In #folklore said that #ghosts of those due to die during the coming #year would be witnessed passing into the #church . From 17thC-19thC watchers kept silent between the bell tolling from 11pm until the bell struck at 1am #FolkyFriday

Stretching from the Bloody Tower to her home in the King's House, Lucy St.John tended her medicinal garden. I explore her world and the curatives she created with Sir Walter Raleigh to treat the prisoners under her care. elizabethjstjohn.com/uncategorized/…… #HistoricalFiction #Author #17thC

As we approach the time when wisteria bursts into full bloom. The facades of many buildings are adorned with this exquisite climber, its fragrant mauve or white flowers painting a picture of late spring. One such masterpiece is a 17thC home, majestically perched in the village.

Another 17thc embroidery, this time Killerton, silk satin ground stitched in silk and metallic threads, framed panel

Exile makes #Irish poets write. Here are poems of Francis Harold #Franciscan of #Limerick (held at
UCD Archives
&
@ucddigital)

and an image of his confrère Aodh Mac Aingil who also wrote as #Gaeilge (JMcC) - both writing rhyme in 17thC #Rome

Been quiet lately... my current research on #17thC fluor albus (thrush) is not everyone's taste 😂 but soooo interesting!

A euphemism was 'weakness of the back' and women's diseases are often 'not proper to expose to the Publick'.

Layers of shame to work with! 551.a.32[12]

Stretching from the Bloody Tower to her home in the King's House, Lucy St.John tended her medicinal garden. I explore her world and the curatives she created with Sir Walter Raleigh to treat the prisoners under her care. #HistoricalFiction #Author #17thC
elizabethjstjohn.com/uncategorized/…

From Philip & James to Petronella & Hermias - the many saints of May from a 17thC French calendar

(BM)

Saints & feasts of 1, 2, 3, 4 May (17thC French calendar, British Museum) St Philip
St James the Less
St Athanasius the Great Invention of the Holy Cross with St Helena
St Pelagia of Tarsus

There was a house here, as shown in this 19thC Richard Relhan work, lost before major heritage funding was possible. But 17thC stables survive, where the Earl Godolphin later bred his Arabian horses, as do the ditches that formed a defensive ring dating as early as 3rdC BC. /3

Excavations beside Southwark Cathedral in 1999 uncovered signs of occupation dating back 2000 years, with the gravelled surface of the Roman Road, the foundations of the medieval priory and a 17thC kiln discovered, amongst other finds #southwark #roman #medieval

Saints & feasts of 1, 2, 3, 4 May (17thC French calendar, British Museum)

St Philip
St James the Less
St Athanasius the Great Invention of the Holy Cross with St Helena
St Pelagia of Tarsus

Wallpaper, late 17thC

The pattern is almost certainly adapted from decorative plasterwork. This wallpaper was found at 8 West Street, Epsom, Surrey. This was a relatively modest house, probably built for a London merchant.

(V&A Museum, London)