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Chris Webb
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...for divining using Plato's sphere in the 1560s.
August 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I know of 2 cases of a man, both clerics, accused of conjuring. Against John Minet for prophesying and sermonising around bone fires, late C15. And by the High Commission against a cleric (wrongly identified as a member of the gentry by a non- early modernist because if his 'sir' honorific ...
August 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Yes, thank you! Stimulated by The Antiquary, we enjoyed a long-overdue return visit to Lastingham last week.
July 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Glad to see you on Blue-sky.
June 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
There's a very good catalogue. But Harewood House and estate is as much an exhibit (or context) as the objects in the catalogue. It really is a must see, with tea on the terrace looking out over the Constable/Repton (there's a red book, too) landscape.
May 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM