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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 21h

10 October 1582: William Fulke, the puritan vice-chancellor of Cambridge, writes to the university's chancellor, Lord Burghley, today, very concerned about the state of Gonville and Caius college, which, he fears is becoming an 'Asylum Papisticum or Seminarium hominium Neutrorum'. 1/
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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 14h

Henri III of France issues a formal order today instituting more frequent and regular social activities at his court, dancing, suppers and such. Naturally inclined to melancholy, he's obviously forcing himself to get out more. 6/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 16h

Many congrats @williamcavert.bsky.social !

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 17h

In Geneva, the illustrious reformer Theodore Beza is writing to his English contacts, asking for money to help defend the protestant city from Savoy: Burghley, Walsingham and the puritan Walter Travers will surely receive these very warmly, but Christopher Hatton is less likely to be receptive. 5/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 20h

In Scotland, the convention to secure broad agreement to the new dispensation (Lennox out, amity with England restored) was supposed to begin today, but hardly anyone has turned up yet so it'll be postponed. At Holyrood, James instead appoints his delegates to the General Assembly up the road. 4/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 21h

... and some fellows 'of the most dissolute and disobedient sorte, have procured them selves to be admitted as Reteyners to diverse honorable personages, and some ... have openly worne their Masters cloth', naming Hatton's follower Dr Swale. The fight for Reformation continues everywhere. 3/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 21h

Burghley knows this, and in fact had a bit of a row about it with Sir Christopher Hatton a few months ago, since some of Hatton's followers are prominent in the college. Fulke recommends a visitation, and indeed of the whole university; the place is full of 'licentiouse and disordered persons'... 2/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 21h

10 October 1582: William Fulke, the puritan vice-chancellor of Cambridge, writes to the university's chancellor, Lord Burghley, today, very concerned about the state of Gonville and Caius college, which, he fears is becoming an 'Asylum Papisticum or Seminarium hominium Neutrorum'. 1/
#earlymodern

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 22h

Boles ... he was the future once

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

9 October 1582: The Privy Council, safely ensconced at Windsor, is still dealing with plague in London. Having told St Albans to expect the law courts to decamp there two days ago, and yesterday announced that it will in fact be Hertford, they write to St Albans slightly ... 1/
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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · Jun 29

29 June 1582: An exciting find today. A couple of days ago I noted that the Privy Council records for 1582-6 were lost, which is a real hindrance. I now find that in fact the record for the next year (to June 1583) does survive, not printed like the rest, but in MS, in Spain. 1/
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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

In the Stationers' Register today is entered 'A booke in[ti]tuled the Viewe of vanitie', aka the 'View of Vanitie and Allarum to England' by Phillip Stubbes, the author of the censorious 'Anatomie of Abuses'. Apparently no copy of this survives. 6/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

William of Orange writes to Walsingham, a courtesy note full of optimism for the Protestant Cause. He notes that Anjou is well, and the king of France, 'before the whole Senate of Venice' [how? by letter?] complained that the King of Spain dishonourably sent persons to kill Anjou (fair enough). 5/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

James VI also arrived in Edinburgh last night, still apparently contented with the turn of events. No troops are now to be raised with Elizabeth's money, and the convention will start tomorrow, to hopefully settle the new status quo. Lennox pretended to sail away from Scotland but landed on Bute. 4/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

In Edinburgh, another General Assembly of the Kirk meets in the New Kirk, Edinburgh. David Lindsay is chosen as moderator. The last assembly was only in June, but obviously a lot has changed since then and they presumably intend to help support the new regime and possibly gloat a bit. 3/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

... apologetically and hinting that the queen is to blame (the innkeepers will be devastated), and to Hertford to tell them to expect an influx. They also write to the bishop of London to get the preachers to tell people to stop visiting the sick and thereby spreading the plague further. 2/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

9 October 1582: The Privy Council, safely ensconced at Windsor, is still dealing with plague in London. Having told St Albans to expect the law courts to decamp there two days ago, and yesterday announced that it will in fact be Hertford, they write to St Albans slightly ... 1/
#earlymodern

Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · Jun 29

29 June 1582: An exciting find today. A couple of days ago I noted that the Privy Council records for 1582-6 were lost, which is a real hindrance. I now find that in fact the record for the next year (to June 1583) does survive, not printed like the rest, but in MS, in Spain. 1/
#earlymodern

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 2d

8 October 1582: A royal proclamation today, ordering that the law courts should be moved from Westminster to Hertford Castle for the current term, because of the plague spreading in London. A little odd, since only yesterday the Privy Council was planning for them to move to ... 1/
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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 2d

Ah well! I refer you to Jim Dixon's seminal revisionism on that ...

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 2d

The prayer beads bit, yes I'm sure that's right, but I'm not sure the taps bit makes sense in those terms. Assuming it's a pro-protestant joke, why more beer?

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 2d

Richard Madox, still at sea in the Atlantic, records catching a pregnant shark 'with 6 yong in his [sic] belly', which they cut out, released and they 'swam away as thogh they had been old knaves'. He also notes this joke which I confess I don't get at all. Lots of time for spinning yarns at sea. 7/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 2d

In Geneva, Jean Malliet, councillor of the city, leaves (presumably today) for a journey to England to seek financial support for the beleaguered Protestant city against the covetous Duke of Savoy. We'll follow his progress via his memoir of the trip over the next year. 6/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 2d

In Dundee, the town council today orders the enforcement of rules against 'bairns yat playis, cryis, and perturbis in ye kirkzeard, and breakeris of ye glasin wyndowis yereof'. 5/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 2d

The inhabitants of Norfolk, or at least quite a few of them, petition the Privy Council today about one John Ferror, apparently a lawyer, who commits 'usurie, extortion, oppression, imbracererie, and maintenaunce' and has made them 'into a masse, and lumpe of debate, brawle and dissention'. 4/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 2d

In 'Chefeild', as she writes it, Mary queen of Scots writes to the French ambassador, complaining that her messenger has been stopped by the earl of Shrewsbury, her keeper, so she's unable to complain to Elizabeth, 'ma bonne soeur', and it's greatly prejudicial to her health. 3/

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