There will be few posts for a few days owing to my daughter’s wedding.

Central Dublin, 6 Nov

Thursday 6 Nov, Dublin

Thomas de Keyser The Four Burgomasters of Amsterdam Learning of the Arrival of Maria de’ Medici on 1 Sept 1638 (Mauritshuis, The Hague)

Legal measure - one pint (bronze) Elizabeth I, 1601 (British Museum)

Well, that was a revolting pint Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1670-1679 (British Museum)

Philips Konick, Woman Holding a Pearl Necklace In Her Hand, early 1660s The artist was b. #otd 5 Nov 1619

5 Nov 1660: d. Alexander de Rhodes #Jesuit missionary #Vietnam. His dictionary formed the basis for a Latin alphabet for Vietnamese.

A final 5 Nov 1605 image for today: Henry Garnet #Jesuit. Executed Tyburn, 1606. #Shakespeare reminded playgoers of him in #Macbeth: 'Faith here's an equivocator that could swear in both scales against either scale' (British Museum)

5 Nov 1459: d. Sir John Fastolf KG (6 November 1380 – 5 November 1459) was landowner and knight who fought in the Hundred Years' War. Part inspiration for #Shakespeare's John Falstaff. Fastolf's signature from TNA

5 Nov 1574: A papal letter appoints Edmund Tanner #Jesuit as bishop of #Cork & Cloyne #otd

5 Nov 1605: Ambrose Rookwood Gunpowder plotter flees north along Watling St in the morning after the plot is discovered

5 Nov 1566: 30 MPs and Lords are summoned to court #otd by Elizabeth I to hear her message regarding the succession which was to vent her irritation at #parliament for pressing her on the matter (National Trust images)

5 Nov 1660: Thomas Killigrew's #theatre company known as the King's Men begin acting #otd at the Red Bull, moving to Gibbons's Tennis Court, Vere St #London on 8 Nov (NPG)

5 Nov 1586: St. Robert Southwell #Jesuit & #poet escapes a house raid, possibly in #Hackney, by hiding behind panelling for 4 hours #otd Executed 21 Feb 1595

5 Nov 1611: Sir Thomas Bodley writes to the Vice Chancellor of #Oxford #otd outlining a clever scheme by which he would finance an eastern expansion of the university library (Bodleian Library)

This medal was struck in The Netherlands by order of the Senate, to commemorate the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot #otd 5 Nov 1605 and the expulsion from there of the Jesuits. The legend is taken from the Psalm 121: "He that keepeth thee will not sleep." (British Museum)

5 Nov 1623: 'The Spanish Gypsy' a collaboration between Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker & John Ford is performed at court for Prince Charles #otd (eebo) Charles, of course, had just come back from a fairly frustrating visit to #Spain

5 Nov 1613: Preaching this Gunpowder Anniversary sermon #otd John Boys also took the opportunity to commend a lottery set up to re-finance the #Virginia Company to the crowd assembled at Paul's Cross (eebo) - never waste a captive auditory...

Justus Suttermans, c. 1634. From the left: Domenica delle Cascine, a duck & chicken seller, & a peasant woman, Francesca, or “Cecca” from Pratolino. "Pietro the Moor" was one of the many servants in the extensive Medici household. (The Uffizi Gallery)

Louise Moillon, 1610-1696, Still Life with Fruit, 1637 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum)

5 Nov 1496: Henry VII of #England declares war on James IV of #Scots #otd - the latter had invaded #England the previous Sept in support of the pretender Perkin Warbeck

5 Nov 1640: Preaching #otd at St Mary's #Oxford James Ussher Archbishop of #Armagh cites the #Jesuit Ralph Buckland's 'Seven Sparkes' to argue that #English Catholics not only knew about the Gunpowder Plot but also prayed for its success (npg/eebo)

A man blowing up another man's head with #gunpowder - an illustration to Samuel Clarke, 'A Generall Martyrologie' London, 1651. (British Museum)

5 Nov 1518: Gavin Dunbar is papally provided to the See of #Aberdeen #otd He extended St Machar's cathedral, creating the unique [still intact - and amazing to see] heraldic ceiling. He also worked hard to develop the new university there. (Quicumque at English Wikipedia )

Company of five from Gesina ter Borch, c. 1654 - c. 1658 (Rijksmuseum) She's depicted an all-smoking, all-drinking, all-action evening here.

5 Nov 1422: the corpse of Henry V arrives at #Westminster #otd from Vincennes where he had died on 31 Aug (NPG)

An Asian elephant, Hanske, with a few human spectators, c. 1637 Rembrandt (British Museum)

Interior of a church by Anthonie van Borssom, c. 1644-1677 A man and a woman speak with a Capuchin friar, while two other Capuchins walk in the background. (British Museum)

St Francis receives the stigmata Benedetto Montagna, c. 1510-1520 (British Museum)

“No Plot, No powder” A biting satire on the “Fatal Vespers” of n.s. 5 Nov 1623 [26 Oct o.s] when the overcrowded rooms constituting a Catholic chapel at Blackfriars collapsed #otd Over 90 people died. (British Museum)

One of thirteen woodcut sheets from the Procession of Charles V entering Bologna #otd 5 Nov 1529 (British Museum)

Food cupboard of oak, English make, 1500-1600 (V&A Museum, London

A flying squirrel or bat, 17th century (Bequeathed to the British Museum by Hans Sloane)

Portrait of a Boy aged 11 Jacob van Oost the elder, 1660. (The National Gallery, London)

5 Nov 1395: Nicholas Fakenham #Franciscan 'determines' at #Oxford #otd that a solution to the Great Schism could be imposed by prelates and princes if the rival Popes could not agree (British Museum)

5 Nov 1606: James Arthur, of the well-known #Limerick merchant family, entered the Irish College #Salamanca #otd He went on to have a distinguished academic career as a member of the Dominican order (NLI)

5 Nov 1638: Jeremy Taylor future Bishop of Down & Connor preaches a Gunpowder Anniversary sermon on the innately treasonous quality of popery #otd in St Mary’s #Oxford. It was dedicated to Archbishop William Laud. (British Museum)

Four As of the 17th century (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Pen and ink drawing by Pier Francesco Mola showing a man with four flying letters, c. 1647-1657 Or My e-mail is out of control. (V&A Museum, London)

The Crowning with Thorns, c. 1603 Caravaggio (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

5 Nov 1253: Máel Pátraic Ó Scanaill is consecrated bishop of Raphoe at the Franciscan church in #Dundalk #otd

A very deluxe chessboard, mid 16th century (Schloss Ambras Innsbruck)

5 Nov 1622: John Donne preaches the Gunpowder Sermon at St Pauls #London #otd - it had to be moved indoors from the Cross due to the weather. Afterwards James VI & I demanded to see the manuscript. (NPG/ LayersofLondon)

Bunnies, Anthonie van Borssom, 1645-1677. (British Museum)

This image is wonderfully entitled: "A woman drinckinge tobacco" (British Museum)

5 Nov 1660 d. Lucy Hay (Percy) Countess of Carlisle, political operator & influencer #otd AntiCromwellian

As gunpowder is in the air, here's the Delft Explosion, 12 Oct 1654 when a gunpowder store exploded. Over 100 people were killed & 1000s injured. The damage in Westminster #otd 5 Nov 1605 would have been very wide. (Egbert van der Poel, National Gallery, London/Rijksmuseum)

Some lovely early modern print recycling: this cartoon of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt - leader in #Dutch independence from #Spain and his associates, talking to each other, 1618 is recycled from the earlier Gunpowder Plot 1605 #otd 5 Nov image. (Rijksmuseum/BM)

5 Nov 1688 William III lands with the #Dutch fleet at Brixham #Devon #otd & about 15,000 troops