John McCafferty
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Historian. Academic. Lover of archives, dead friars, old buildings and anything before 1700. Tweeting in personal capacity.
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Cope made for Antonio Barberini, Grand Prior of Rome in Order of Saint John & Knights of Malta c. 1623–28 (Met Museum) This cope celebrates Barberini’s family - his uncle was Urban VIII - with a repeating pattern of the family devices, a bee and a radiant sun. #WorldBeeDay
20 May 1560: John Feckenham #Benedictine & last abbot of #Westminster sent of the Tower of #London #otd for his opposition to the 1559 settlement. He died, still confined, in Wisbech Castle in 1584.