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  4th May (hybrid) - Marianne Taatz-Jacobi (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), 'Text recycling in England during the 17th century: the transfer of ideas and debates in the English Civil War and the Republic (1638-1661)' 18th May (Zoom) - Diane Strange (Leicester), 'Prince Charles' Court of Wards and Liveries, 1618-1625' 1st June (hybrid) - Steve Pincus (Chicago), 'A Restoration Imperial Crisis?' 15th June (Zoom) - Rachel Foxley (Reading), 'Political polarisation in the English civil war: a digital humanities approach' 29th June (hybrid) - Nadine Akkerman (Leiden), 'From Winter Queen to Queen of Hearts: a new reading of Elizabeth Stuart' The first seminar of term will take place on  Thursday 4th May  at  5.30pm BST . This will be a  hybrid  seminar, held in-person in the  Wolfson Room, NB02, IHR , and also online via Zoom.

  09 may 2023 Conflict and Consensus in Five London Parishes, 1570 – 1670 William Jutsum (Independent Scholar) Online- via Zoom 23 may 2023 "Men sent by Heaven to show … the truth of the faith”: Catholicism and the Capuchin Missions into Britain, 1599-1669 Liam Temple (Durham) IHR Pollard Seminar Room ,  N301 ,  Third Floor ,  IHR ,  Senate House ,  Malet Street ,  London WC1E 7HU 06 jun 2023 Religion and the Making of the New Model Army David Como (Stanford) Online- via Zoom 20 jun 2023 On Laudianism Peter Lake (Vanderbilt) ,  Anthony Milton (Sheffield) ,  Kenneth Fincham (Kent) Lambeth Palace Library

 

  Engel Sluiter’s ‘New Light on the “20. And Negroes” Arriving in Virginia, August 1619’ Ever since the publication In April, 1997 of Engel Sluiter’s very brief article in The William and Mary Quarterly, it has been taken as highly probable that the two English privateering vessels that apparently seized about 60 slaves from the Portuguese vessel, the Sao Joao Bautista, in the Bay of Campeche in the summer of 1619 were those responsible for landing some of their captives at Point Comfort in Virginia at the end of August in that year and the rest, subsequently, in Bermuda. A small historiographical enterprise has since grown up tracing the origins of these people to the African Congo. That they were taken from the Portuguese vessel by force has been regarded as axiomatic. There are, however, a number of problems with this view. One obvious issue concerns the voyage of the Portuguese vessel after its encounter with the alleged English privateers. The passages quoted by Engel Sluiter from

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 Peter Pheasant and Virginia Peter Pheasant was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, probably in November, 1584, and had a career in the law in the early to mid-seventeenth century. He was admitted to Grays Inn in London and called to the bar in 1608. Subsequently, he was a Reader at his Inn of Court in 1624, a Serjeant-at-Law in 1640, very briefly Recorder of the City of London in May, 1643 and then, from the end of September, 1645 until his death on 1st October, 1649, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas. His legal career is noted on his funerary monument in the parish church of St Peter in Upwood in Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire) along with his family connections.  Apart from that, there remain a handful of references to his legal cases and his role in the London parish of St Margaret’s, Lothbury. Little, if any, of this bears on Pheasant’s role in the affairs of the Virginia Company of London or in that of its smaller associated venture, the Bermuda or Some

I am afraid that my acquaintance with medieval historians in general and late-medieval historians in particular has always been very limited. I was taught for  a term in St John's College, Oxford by Howard Colvin but, apart from that, John Armstrong was the only other medievalist I met. There was, however, one exception. On a train journey from Paddington station in London to Oxford, probably in 1964, I was in a carriage in which, by chance, E.F.Jacob was also travelling with a number of other passengers. Quite how we got talking I cannot recall. But I do remember that, when I told him that I hoped to pursue a career as an academic historian, he told me that many of those who chose to do so regretted having done so by the time that they had reached thirty years of age. I was very surprised to hear this but not deterred. 

  Warwickshire Local History Society. Professor Bernard Capp will give a talk entitled ‘The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas and Movements in the English Revolution’ in Warwick on Tuesday April 18. It will take place in the Primary School Hall at Aylesford School on Tapping Way, starting at 7.30pm, with tea and coffee served from 7pm. It will follow the society’s AGM at 7.15pm, the talk will start at 7.30 pm There is no need to book and non-members can attend for £3, refundable if they join the Society. 

 I was very pleased to discover last evening that all seven volumes of the Commons' Debates 1621, edited by Notestein, Relf and Simpson, can now be downloaded from the Internet Archive site.