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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 8h

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

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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 · 11h

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 · 11h

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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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 11h

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 15h

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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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 17h

... St Albans. The proclamation states that no-one should go to the courts if there is plague where they live, but if anyone has to do so, he must 'bear and hold up in his hand one white rod of the length of one yard', on paid of imprisonment, which I suppose is a form of social distancing. 2/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 17h

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/
#earlymodern

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

Is this the Spectator's usual line on Reform? Haven't really been following.

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

7 October 1582: In much of Europe it is 17 October and people are still blinking in the light of the Gregorian calendar. In England, more pressing concerns: plague in London. The Privy Council, meeting at Windsor, writes to the mayor of St Albans, informing them that the law ... 1/
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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

... over the election of provost there and the threat of violence; the Edinburgh craftsmen, apparently, preferred an anti-Raider candidate, a friend of France and Lennox, and prevailed over the merchants. Anyway, the national convention is due in a few days so that may be make or break time. 7/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

Scotland apparently remains calm; Robert Bowes reported yesterday that few of the Raiders were with the king, but there's no sign of a reversal of their actions. A subsidy from Elizabeth is being delivered to support them. The king's move to Edinburgh has been postponed because of the row ... 6/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

The English soldier John Norreys writes to Walsingham, sending news of his (small) part in the success of the raising the siege of Lochem, where it 'pleased God to prosper us so well that, within a few days after our arrival there, we raised the siege and victualled the town'. 5/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

that a marriage was held during the service 'bytwyxt one Iohn Morgan & Iohan [Joan] Haver seruantes with Richard Glascoke', which seems quite surprising. He gives the couple 5 shillings, which is nice. 'After this I hadd with me to dyner the ministre and Mr Newman fyshemonger & al’. 4/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Stonley, the corrupt Exchequer official, goes to church (it's Sunday), where he heard 'mr k Cottesfordes Sermon made vpon the 24 of Genesis. How Abraham causes his seruant to swere to take a wyf for Izake in his owne kynred &c as further appereth in my note boke of Sermons'. It seems ... 3/

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

courts are to be moved from Westminster to his town, which is currently free from plague (for how long?), for the current term. He is to prevent anyone entering the city from an infected place, and prepare food and lodging for what I imagine will be an overwhelming influx of people. 2/

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

7 October 1582: In much of Europe it is 17 October and people are still blinking in the light of the Gregorian calendar. In England, more pressing concerns: plague in London. The Privy Council, meeting at Windsor, writes to the mayor of St Albans, informing them that the law ... 1/
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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 1d

www.nationaljusticemuseum.org.uk/museum maybe? No idea about pricing.

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Visit The National Justice Museum in Nottingham. Based in the city's former courts and County Gaol. Explore it, discover it, live it!

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 3d

Bravo!

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 4d

4 October 1582: A bad day, in my view, as in much of Europe it is the last day before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar. In Spain and its empire (including Portugal and much of Italy) and various other places, tomorrow will be 15 October. This tiresome piece of meddling ... 1/
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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 4d

At twilight this evening, Anna Jakobäa Fugger, a member of the famous banking family, escapes from the convent in Augsburg where she had been placed as a nun 20 years earlier and flees in disguise. She'll go on to convert, marry a Protestant nobleman and live until 1587. 7/

Conclusion

Just two weeks after the conclusion of the 1582 imperial diet in Augsburg, the unexpected happened. At twilight on 4 October 1582, Anna Jakobäa Fugger (154

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