Picture of embroidered satin with silk and metal, England, 1650-1699 (V&A, London)

Coca bag (chuspa) Peru, Nazca province c. 1400-1523 A few coca leaves were found inside this, apparently. (British Museum)

5 Aug 1581: Esmé Stewart created Duke of #Lennox at Holyroodhouse #otd (National Galleries of #Scotland)

5 Aug: feast #otd of the 8th century St Abel of Reims, bishop, who may have been #English or #Irish

The Annunciation - made of embroidered silk satin with silk and metal threads, Germany, 1641 (V&A Museum, London)

Elephant with Raised Trunk, Unknown artist/maker 16th century Bronze: 12.1 cm (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)

5 Aug 642: St Oswald king of #Northumbria dies in battle against Penda of #Mercia #otd (Robin Widdison)

5 Aug 1540: b. Joseph Justus Scaliger, chronologer, #Protestant, whose work deeply influenced Archbishop James Ussher's chronology and the latter's conclusion that the world was created in 4004BC. It seems odd now, but it was very fine textual and scholarly work for the period.

Perhaps not the greatest depiction of Duncannon Fort Co. #Wexford ever but the maker of the sketch was quite a significant figure. Done by Queen Victoria #otd 5 Aug 1849. (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

5 Aug 1672: Arthur Capel, Earl of #Essex receives ceremonial sword as Lord Lieutenant of #Ireland #otd Quite anti-Catholic, he's the Capel in Capel St #Dublin. Found in the Tower of London with his throat cut in July 1673 - murder or suicide? (NPG)

Wednesday 5 Aug, Dublin

Pair of gloves 1600–1625 British-made, from the Met Museum

Pair of gloves 1600–1625 British-made, from the Met Museum

4 Aug 1625: Sir Edward Coke makes a major speech in Charles I's first parliament analyzing the income & expenditure of the Crown. He argued the king should ordinarily live of his own, only seeking taxes extraordinarily (NPG)

4 Aug 1560: John Harington, courtier, writer, alleged inventor of flush #toilet, baptised #otd at All Hallows #London Wall. His godparents were Elizabeth I and William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (NPG)

4 Aug 1539: John Hilsey ex-Dominican Bishop of #Rochester. Successor to John Fisher. He was one of Thomas Cromwell's visitors to all friaries in England in 1534. Preacher at Catherine of Aragon's funeral in 1536. On 24 Feb 1538 he formally ridiculed the Rood of Boxley. (Diliff)

Two Women at a Window, c. 1655/1660 Murillo (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

4 Aug 1604: James I confirms #otd the broad powers conferred by Elizabeth I on William Camden in order to reform the College of Arms

4 Aug 1620: John Taylor #poet begins a journey to #Prague #otd He was an advocate for #English volunteers to assist the Bohemian Protestants (eebo)

4 Aug 1608: John Tradescant the Younger gardener is baptized #otd at Meopham Kent (attributed to Thomas de Critz National Portrait Gallery, London ... with furry memento mori skull).

Aug 1649: General George Monck & Oliver Cromwell meet #otd Monck was facing an inquiry into his dealings with Owen Roe O'Neill in #Ireland (NPG)

4 Aug 1553: Mary I releases George Day, Bishop of Chichester, who'd been imprisoned under Edward VI. She chose Day to preach at her half-brother's funeral on 8 Aug & then again at her coronation on 1 Oct 1553 (National Trust images)

Linen cap with a quilted check pattern. Netherlands, c. 1600 - 1699 (Rijksmuseum)

4 Aug 1327: The newly crowned Edward III is nearly captured #otd by #Scots forces led by Sir James Douglas at Stanhope park in Weardale (GCI)

4 Aug 1719: Meinhard Schomberg, Duke of Leinster and 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Williamite commander who crucially attacked across the Boyne river on the day of the battle, buried #otd in the Duke of Ormond's vault in Henry VII Chapel #Westminster (National Trust images)

4 Aug 1641: Thirteen bishops are impeached by #parliament #otd for passing the 1640 canons in Convocation & for voting the clerical benevolence to Charles I's military effort. (BM)

4 Aug 1647: Writing #otd for Charles I, Gilbert Sheldon asks Robert Skinner, Bishop of #Oxford whether "upon extreme necessity" a monarch might lawfully permit exercise of more than one religion in his kingdom. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, Juxon medal)

4 Aug 1580: St. John Boste of Hutton Hall, Penrith, enters the #English College, #Rheims #otd Hanged, drawn and quartered at Dryburn on 24 July 1594

4 Aug 1534: Mary of Guise, future Queen & Regent of #Scotland m. Louis Duc de Longueville at the #Louvre #otd The celebratory banquets and tournaments lasted 16 days. He died on 9 June 1537

4 Aug 1396: William Courtenay Archbishop of #Canterbury is interred in his cathedral #otd in a ceremony attended by Richard II & many courtiers (photo (c) Canterbury Historical & Archaeological Society (CHAS))