#seventeenth-century — Public Fediverse posts

Top ten posts in September 2025

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/01/top-ten-posts-in-september-2025/

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Blogging about my first find in the Scottish Privy Council Records Database: A Berwickshire ancestor imprisoned for refusing to take the oath of allegiance in 1692 https://vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/a-berwickshire-ancestor-imprisoned-for-refusing-to-take-the-oath-of-allegiance-in-1692/ #ScottishHistory #History #Scotland #OathOfAllegiance #SeventeenthCentury #17thCentury #Jacobite #Berwickshire #ScottishBorders #Edinburgh #ScottishPrivyCouncilRecords #ScottishPrivyCouncil

I have more serious academic research to do using the new Scottish Privy Council Records database. But I couldn't resist looking up some ancestors. Here is my 8xg-granddad, not doing too well in 1692, after refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance. https://spcr.ac.uk #SPCR #ScottishPrivyCouncilRecords #ScottishHistory #History #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Edinburgh #DH #DigitalHumanities #Databases #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Wish my brain would stop thinking "I'll just look up another 16th/17th century testament (will and/or inventory) to study in ScotlandsPeople" when the website is still down! Hope it comes back ok after latest upgrade / revamp. And hope it's not as disastrous as some other website revamps inc SP. #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #Scotland #History #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #ScotlandsPeople #website #websites #16thCentury #17thCentury #SixteenthCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Wills #Inventories

Today's #video is Begone, sweet night, an anonymous #Scottish #song from the early #17thCentury.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeKzuv4dA7o

#earlymusic #lutenist #scotland #earlymodern #earlymusicensemble
@earlymusic @earlymodern @histodons #histodon #histodons #historicalmusic #seventeenthcentury #baroque

Orlando Gibbons: Nunc Dimittis

From George Wither's The Hymnes and Songs of the Church, 1623.

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: violin, alto
Peter Willcock: bass

Image: Rembrandt - Presentation at the Temple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l57BE5qD86w&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#earlymusic #earlymusicensemble #earlymodern #OrlandoGibbons #histodon #histodons #17thCentury #17thCenturymusic #seventeenthcentury
#nuncdimittis @earlymusic @histodon @earlymodern @histodons #historicalmusic

‘We have a lot of cracks’: Swedes seek to save Vasa warship – again
#NavalHistory
#seventeenthcentury
#histodons
#history
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/27/we-have-a-lot-of-cracks-swedes-seek-to-save-vasa-warship-again?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Some 17th Century music for Christmas Day

Orlando Gibbons: A Song of Joy
from George Withers' Hymnes and Carols of the Church, 1623

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol
Tamsin Lewis: alto
Peter Willcock: bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8IRdnZ_oLo&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#OrlandoGibbons
#earlymusic
#earlymusicensemble
#christmas
#christmasmusic
#earlymodern
#17thCentury
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Finally from 2022 in #UrbanHistory there's the #openAccess article "Novel, popular, fashionable and partisan: making coffeehouses ‘burgherly’ spaces in early modern #Hamburg" by Gabrielle Robilliard https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/article/novel-popular-fashionable-and-partisan-making-coffeehouses-burgherly-spaces-in-early-modern-hamburg/2C4DFC99DFAA1E77A4D94A2A75911DFA #17thC #18thC #Coffee #Drinking #SocialHistory #GermanHistory #Germany #SeventeenthCentury #EighteenthCentury

Photocopying a small number of pages from a borrowed library book using a rather old now DSLR camera #DSLR #Lumix #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #kirkSession #Books #Libraries

And on the subject of #witchcraft, again from #SouthLeith, now 2 May 1644 “Ordains to mak intimaone that none use any kind of torturing aganst any of yose who are suspect of witchcraft and for ye present in prisone.” #ScottishHistory #Edinburgh #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #kirkSession

More from South #Leith, among accusations of #witchcraft and arguing over #schools: “28 December 1643 - Isobell Robertsone being called (for haveing four men playing at cards in hir house in tyme of divin service) compeared and was ordained to pay 12s and was admonishit no to doe the like.” #Edinburgh #ScottishHistory #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #kirkSession #CardGames #GamingHistory

From South #Leith #kirkSession records 16 September 1630 “Compeared ye fruite sellers & wes admonished not sell any #fruit publicklie agane on ye Sabbath under ye paine of making yer publicke repentance.” #ScottishHistory #Edinburgh #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury

Happy to be sitting up doing some more old document reading. And thank goodness again for easy colour/balance graphics processing software to make it more readable! Here a testament testamentar (Scottish will and inventory) from 1648. #HistoricalResearch #ScottishHistory #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Will #Wills #Inventory #Inventories #Testament #Testaments #Palaeography #GraphicsProcessing #GraphicSoftware

Unlike the Norton one it uses just a single copy of the original book as its source. Which may mean it is less clear to read in places. But book historian me is a lot happier with this facsimile for authenticity and provenance reasons. Note it's a bit of a whopper! 4kg and 35cm x 23 cm x 8 cm. #RareBooks #Plays #Theatre #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Books #Bookstodon #Shakespeare #FirstFolio #Facsimile #BookHistory

Both poring over the 400th anniversary #BritishLibrary #facsimile #Shakespeare #FirstFolio we bought. It is a very accurate reproduction of an excellent BL copy of the original. And yes we had to look up the bear stage direction. Very nice item to have, large, with sturdy hardback #binding in slipcase. #RareBooks #Plays #Theatre #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Books #Bookstodon

Just bought a British Library 400th anniversary facsimile copy of Shakespeare's First Folio. Absolutely isn't a need. But as a book historian, and given it's a limited edition, I'm afraid I can't pass on this. Shop around if you want to buy it because it's available much cheaper than from BL direct. #Shakespeare #FirstFolio #Bookstodon #BookHistory #Facsimile #Plays #Theatre #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Books #RareBooks

Here's an example of a record from it. I think this was my 11xg-granddad, revealing an approximate date of birth for him. I haven't been able to find any baptisms for children of Secretary William Fowler. #Soldiers #Travel #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #BritishHistory #LowCountries #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #FMP #FindMyPast #Histodon #Histodons

Found in #FindMyPast "Registers Of Licences To Pass Beyond The Seas 1573-1677" (UK National Archives E 157) for soldiers going to serve overseas, especially in the Low Countries. Images and indexes. Includes soldier ages so I now have an approximate birth date for the soldier son of the royal secretary I'm writing a journal paper about. #Soldiers #Travel #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #BritishHistory #LowCountries #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #FMP #Histodon #Histodons

Normally I'm fine reading Scottish #handwriting from the mid 17th century. Even usually ok back to 1600. This 1656 testament not so much 😜 #palaeography #histodon #histodons #transcription #ink #ScottishHistory #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury

Possibly not awake enough for this, but staring at a 1625 testament, looking for the previously spotted genealogical reference I need for a journal paper in progress. Found it! #ScottishHistory #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #History #Palaeography #Handwriting #Transcription #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Histodon #Histodons

Nicholas Breton: Four of the Clocke - a detailed description of life through the day in #earlymodern England From Fantasticks, 1626
Read by Peter Kenny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlDEfh0zP1g&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#histodon #histodons #time #clock #watch
@earlymodern @histodons @histodon
#socialhistory
#17thCentury #seventeenthcentury

William Lawes: Wherefore do my sisters stay?
The second #symphony, #song and #chorus from James Shirley's court #masque, The Triumph of Peace, which was performed for King Charles I at the Palace of #Whitehall in 1634.

Richard de Winter: Irene (tenor)
Peter Willcock: bass
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #violin, alto
Keith McGowan: #flute
Richard Mackenzie: #lute

Image: Giulio Parigi: Design for the 6th Interlude for Cosimo de Medici, 1608

#earlymusic @earlymusic
#histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon #earlymodern @earlymodern
#CharlesI #KingCharlesI #17thCentury #seventeenthcentury #WilliamLawes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6RKcVn8x_g&ab_channel=Passamezzo

Firing up my next fiction book. A short one but looks a good one. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, set in 17th century Holland at the time of "Tulipmania". #books #reading #fiction #fictionInTranslation #dumas #alexandreDumas #frenchLiterature #netherlands #holland #tulipmania #historicalFiction #17thCentury #17thCenturyFiction #SeventeenthCentury #SeventeenthCenturyFiction #bookstodon #booksInTranslation #translatedBooks #tulips

Something for #europeday...

Europe's Revels, a dance by John Eccles, from his interlude, Europe's Revels for the Peace, which was performed at court and at London theatres in 1697.
This image of the dance comes from The Dancing Master, Henry Playford, 1698

@thedancingmaster

#earlymusic
#earlymodern
#johneccles
#europeday2023
#DancingMaster
#playford
#countrydance
#baroque
#baroquedance
#earlydance
#historicaldance
#sheetmusic
#dance
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Some lesser known #17thCentury #coronation #music...
The #CoronationDay
From The #Dancing Master, Henry #Playford, 1698
Written for the coronation of King William III and Queen Mary II in 1689
Robin Jeffrey: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol

#history
#historical
#histodon
#histodons
#earlymusic
#earlymodern
#stuartera
#seventeenthcentury
#earlydance
#RoyalHistory
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@earlymodern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFWp_Cbx0U&ab_channel=Passamezzo

A description of the #month of #May in #earlymodern England.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.

Read by Peter Kenny

Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZYJPfZlPk0&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#history
#socialhistory
#strawberry
#nicholasbreton
#merrymonthofmay
#maypole
#blossom
#mackerel
#cream
#laboursofthemonths
#calendarcustoms
#seasonal
#springtime
#trevelyonmiscellany
#maytime
#sparrowhawk
#peascod
#dailylife
#seventeenthcentury
#17thCentury
#17thcenturylife
#histodon
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#folklore
@earlymodern
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Forever Charles is here - have you read it yet?
#SeventeenthCentury #Highwaymen #Royalty #TimeTravelRomance #CleanRead #HistoricalFiction

25 March is the Feast of the Annunciation, or Lady Day, and the first day of the New Year in #medieval and #earlymodern times.
Here is a #dance for today from the Dancing Master (Henry #Playford, 1698)

#otd
#onthisday
#onthisdayinhistory
#earlymusic
#sheetmusic
#LadyDay
#annunciation
#17thcentury
#historicaldance
#dancingmaster
#seventeenthcentury
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#countrydance
#history
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Finished The Satsuma Complex by #BobMortimer last night. Absolutely loved it. Very much had a feel of the #DirkGently #novels by #DouglasAdams. Now reading The Drowned City by KJ Maitland set in #Bristol at the time of the 1606 tidal wave. #books #reading #fiction #HistoricalFiction #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #England

Just been trying a couple more of the #ScottishHistory #quizzes by Allan Kennedy linked from the Centre for #ScottishCulture at the #University of #Dundee website. Relieved to get 47% and 53% on the “super hard” 16th and 17thC ones! https://dundeescottishculture.org/scottish-history-quizzes/ #Scotland #History #DundeeUniversity #SixteenthCentury #SeventeenthCentury #16thCentury #17thCentury

Another Basics of Scottish History Quiz from Dundee University lecturer Allan Kennedy, this time about The Witch-Hunt. https://www.gotoquiz.com/basics_of_scottish_history_quiz_the_witch_hun
#Scotland #ScottishHistory #Quiz #Witchcraft #WitchHunts #WitchTrials #Witches #History #SeventeenthCentury #17thCentury

A few years ago I was totally burned-out and depressed and off work for many many months. During that time I kept my brain going by doing some research into one of the first-ever ambassadors to #Sweden from England, John Robinson (born 1650). You can read his late-17th century diplomatic report on Sweden as a book here https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A57454.0001.001/ #history #diplomaticHistory #seventeenthCentury #sevenYearsWar

@histodons @histodon

This verse of the #17thCentury #Ballad 'Christmas Lamentation' condemns the use of starch (yellow or otherwise) for setting #ruffs and other linens – using a foodstuff for decorating clothes has pushed up the price of corn (wheat) , causing a #costofliving crisis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCNuQiv-3RQ

#earlymodern #17thCenturyClothing #FashionHistory #HistoryofFashion #earlymusic #SeventeenthCentury #SeventeenthCenturySong

Christmas Lamentation
A #17thCentury #broadsideballad, bewailing the gap between rich and poor, and the lack of #charity at Christmas.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Robin Jeffrey: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCNuQiv-3RQ&ab_channel=Passamezzo

@histodons @earlymusic #earlymusic #earlymodern #histodon #histodons #history #SeventeenthCentury #protestsong #poverty #socialhistory #violadagamba #seventeenthcenturymusic #ballad #ballads #broadsideballads #christmassong #christmasmusic

Having a rather meta seminar experience this afternoon, watching a seminar on student note taking in 17th century mathematics lectures at St Andrews. Watched online with an audience in a mathematics lecture theatre at St Andrews where I had maths lectures in 1990 and 1991. I think one or two of my old lecturers are there.
#HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfEducation #ScottishHistory #Mathematics #Math #University #17thCentury #SeventeenthCentury #Scotland #StAndrews #StAndrewsUniversity