I was perusing the newsletters written by George Garrard to the earl of Strafford when I came across an account of the death of the Lord Treasurer Richard Weston, earl of Portland (d. 1635). It sounds like it was terribly painful:
Friday Morning about three of the Clock the Lord Treasurer died; and he said over [...]
Entries from May 2009
May 29, 2009
The death of a Lord Treasurer
May 25, 2009
Notable Occurences and more on agents
The new Carnivalesque is up at Mercurius Politicus! Surprisingly, my previous post is actually mentioned! Whooo! My thanks to Politicus for hosting the Carnivalesque and for the handful of people who read this blog.
Also mentioned in the Carnivalesque is this article over at Got Medieval. Evidently, Johannes Gutenberg found a printing press after he tripped [...]
May 11, 2009
Lake on post-revisionism, Me on the historian’s craft
I just read Lake’s chapter “Retrospective: Wentworth’s political world in revisionist and post-revisionist perspective” in Merritt ed., The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1561-1641 (1996). I have to say that I am impressed. It’s just another one of those occasions where I feel utterly incapable of the profession I am trying to enter. [...]
May 9, 2009
Mabbott in London
Hello everyone, I apologize for my long disappearance from the world. I have been busy, suffice it to say, and more recently I have been very distracted by my city burning to the ground. It sounds like the fire crews are starting to win the battle, and the weather finally broke, but it’s been a [...]
