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Rembrandt van Rijn The Night Watch, 1642

Afternoon in Katwijk aan Zee Samuel Verveer, 1863

#otd 1850 Charlotte Bronte sat for this portrait by George Richmond, the leading society artist of the day. It was a measure of how far she had come in the year and a half since the publication of Jane Eyre.

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Stunning sunset on St John's eve (23/6) a few years ago, Dugort, Achill ❤️🙏❤️

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OTD in 1381 - The Tower of London fell to the rebels. This was the high point of the Peasants’ Revolt, with its participants having burned John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster’s opulent Savoy Palace to the ground on the previous day. On 14 June the rebels led by Wat Tyler met with the young King #RichardII at Mile End. He acquiesced to their demands. However, while Richard & his men were away another group of rebels led by Joanna Ferrour & her husband surged into the Tower & executed Archbishop Sudbury & the Treasurer Robert Hales. Their other target, the King’s uncle John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, was far away in Northumberland negotiating with the Scots, otherwise he too would likely have been eliminated. We’ll likely never know why the rebels gained entry to the Tower so easily with the remaining royal forces putting up no resistance. It could be as simple as the common soldiers feeling sympathy for the rebels. Alternatively, the rebels could have told those in command at the Tower that the King had agreed to hand the fortress over to his ‘True Commons’ or more chillingly perhaps he actually had as an attempt to buy time. Also at the Tower that day was Gaunt’s heir & Richard’s future rival, Henry of Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby (later #HenryIV.) Both Richard & Henry were aged fourteen in 1381, which is significant. Fourteen was the youngest age at which a Medieval English male could be said to have reached his majority & considered an adult combatant. Hence we see King Richard making his own first autonomous political decisions in response to the revolt. Likewise Henry was fortunate to escape from the Tower with his life (reportedly he only did so through the goodwill of the Ferrours) as the rebels would have viewed him as an adult could be legitimately made to pay the price for their grievances against his father.

Mungrisedale, Cumbria

Looking across the Solway Firth to Criffel in South-West Scotland from Uldale Common

Under the golden oak

14 June 1664 Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning … So home to dinner, and after dinner by coach to Kensington. In the way overtaking Mr. Laxton, the apothecary, with his wife and daughters, very fine young lasses, in a coach; and so both of us to my Lady Sandwich, who hath lain this fortnight here at Deane Hodges’s. Much company came hither to-day, my Lady Carteret, &c., Sir William Wheeler and his lady, and, above all, Mr. Becke, of Chelsy, and wife and daughter (Betty Becke) my Lord’s mistress and one that hath not one good feature in her face, and yet is a fine lady, of a fine taille, and very well carriaged, and mighty discreet. I took all the occasion I could to discourse with the young ladies in her company* to give occasion to her to talk, which now and then she did, and that mighty finely, and is, I perceive, a woman of such an ayre, as I wonder the less at my Lord’s favour to her, and I dare warrant him she hath brains enough to entangle him…. Two or three houres we were in her company, going into Sir H. Finche’s garden, and seeing the fountayne, and singing there with the ladies, and a mighty fine cool place it is, with a great laver of water in the middle and the bravest place for musique I ever heard…. So home to supper, and a little at my office, and to bed. Thomas Hodges (Dean of Hereford) My Lord: Sir Edward Mountagu (Earl of Sandwich) "Taille" means a woman’s figure, shape, or bodily proportions (from French). Sam praises her attractive build and graceful posture despite her plain face. He values figure, carriage (posture and manner), and presence (“ayre”) over facial symmetry. This is a recurring Pepysian theme in that he is highly attuned to female allure in motion and demeanor rather than static features. My guess of the meaning of “entangle” here is that she can cleverly captivate and hold a powerful man. *Young men, pay attention to the master at work: Spot the most interesting woman in the room → immediately befriend every young lady nearby → manufacture reasons to make her speak. Diary it later. Sir Heneage Finch (Solicitor-General) Educated at Westminster and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he remained until he became a member of the Inner Temple in 1638. He was called to the bar in 1645, and soon obtained a lucrative practice. He was a member of the Convention Parliament of April 1660, and shortly afterwards was appointed Solicitor General, being created a baronet the day after he was knighted. Portrait after Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1680

The Fisherman, 1884, by Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931).

🏰 The Pigeon Tower 📍 Lancashire, England Built ~1910 for Lord Leverhulme, it served as a dovecote on the lower floors & a sewing room for Lady Lever at the top Today, this distinctive stone tower remains one of Lancashire's most recognizable landmarks, overlooking the moors