21 Nov 1597: Patrick Anderson of #Elgin , future prisoner in the Tolbooth #Edinburgh & disputant with fellow #Scots ministers, enters the #Jesuit novitiate at Sant' Andrea #Rome #otd (eebo) Also translated the works of Leonard Lessius SJ to #English in 1618.

21 Nov 1606: Patent granted to Richard Hakluyt & Robert Hunt #otd to go to Virginia #otd without giving up their parishes in #England (upenn)

The Miracles of St. Francis Xavier, Peter Paul Rubens, 1617/1618 - painted for the Jesuit church in #Antwerp in the run up to Xavier's beatification in 1619 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

21 Nov 1673: Mary of #Modena arrives at #Dover where James II greets her on the beach #otd (NT)

A feast #otd , 21 Nov, of St Columbanus (†615) - #Irish peregrinus [pilgrim-exile] and founder of monastic houses across #Europe : his works were edited in 17thC by the #Irish Franciscan (martyr in Bohemia) Patrick Fleming & printed posthumously at #Leuven (Google)

21 Nov 1695: d. Henry Purcell #composer #otd at Marsham St #London (NPG)

21 Nov 1610: d. William Fitch (Benet of Canfield) #English Capuchin mystic at #Paris #otd (BM/eebo) - an important & very influential writer

21 Nov 1634: Henry Cary, who would become 4th Viscount Falkland is baptised at Burford Church Oxfordshire #otd (cotswoldsinfo)

21 Nov 1580: Gelasius O'Sullivan #Cistercian Abbot of #Boyle & Eoin O'Mulkern Premonstratensian Abbot of Loch Cé executed in #Dublin #otd (BM)

21 Nov 1599: dedication of the #English #Benedictine convent #Brussels attended by archdukes Albert & Isabella #otd (WGA)

21 Nov 1677: d. John Temple, author of hugely influential book on the #Irish rebellion of 1641 at Staplestown #Carlow #otd (eebo) For eyewitness accounts of what happened in 1641, see the Depositions series from
IMC

21 Nov 1657: Luke Wadding of #Waterford , #Franciscan , Scotist, historian is buried in St. Isidore's #Irish College #Rome #otd His bones still rest in the crypt there while his death mask may be seen at Waterford Treasures

21 Nov 1556: William Harvey, herald, crowned Clarenceaux King of Arms by Mary I herself at St. James' Palace #otd (NPG)

'Broiling fish over a fire', in what is now North Carolina, 1585-1593 (BM) by John White, watercolour over graphite

21 Nov 1579: d. Thomas Gresham adventurer, founder of the Royal Exchange #London #otd (NPG)

21 Nov 1668: Thomas Fleming receives the #Benedictine habit #otd as Abbot of the Schottenklöster of #Regensburg - founded by #Irish monks in the 11th century.

This #Scottish takeover on the basis they were the real 'Scoti' rankled with many Irish people.

21 Nov 1672: John Bunyan's 'A defence of the Doctrine of Justification' licensed for printing #otd (eebo)

21 Nov 1597: Patrick Anderson of #Elgin , future prisoner in the Tolbooth #Edinburgh & disputant with fellow #Scots ministers, enters the #Jesuit novitiate at Sant' Andrea #Rome #otd (eebo) Also translated the works of Leonard Lessius SJ to #English in 1618.

21 Nov 1660: John Clotworthy #Ulster settler Covenanter & royalist created Viscount Massereene #otd (ClotworthyHouse)

21 Nov 1639: Barnabas O'Brien, 6th earl of #Thomond appointed governor of Co. Clare #otd