4 May 1415: Jan Hus' & John Wycliffe's propositions are condemned by the Council of Constance #otd (BM)

Chicory (Cichorium intybus) with a dragonfly, Book of Flower Studies c. 1510-15, Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)

4 May 1571: Ambrose Dudley, Earl of #Warwick made Chief Butler of #England #otd What a title! (BM/ reputedly Lord Ambrose Dudley, National Trust images)

4 May 1622: James Hamilton is created first Viscount #Clandeboye #otd He was a planter, supporter of radical #Scots clergy in #Ulster during the 1630s and before that, #London agent (1600) of James VI (NTCW)

4 May 1535: Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII's son is present at the execution of 5 priests at Tyburn #otd Lucky lad - he was also at Anne Boleyn's soon after on 19 May. (NPG)

Set of scales and weights, Amsterdam, c. 1620-1680 Inside this box is a pair of scales and 21 brass weights, each a standard measure for various European coins. (Victoria & Albert museum, London)

4 May 1415: Council of #Constance condemns 45 articles of John Wyclif #otd Later seen by many as harbinger of #English reformation, John Bale’s ‘morning star’ (BM)

4 May 1694: d. Victoria Cary who married in 1640, Sir William Uvedale, father of her deceased fiancé, also William. Victoria was daughter of Henry Falkland Lord Deputy of #Ireland & Elizabeth Cary Tanfield #writer (NPG/EH) Her brother Patrick, ex-Benedictine m. Uvedale's niece.

Church interior with woman & child at the foot of a pulpit

After Hendrik van Streek, 1636

(Musée du Louvre)

Portrait of Charles de Bourbon (d.1590), Cardinal de Vendosme Archbishop of Rouen, 5th son of Charles 1st duc de Vendosme, after a medal by Sebastien Leclerc. Crown and zucchetto underneath, nice...

4 May 1535: William Exmew #Carthusian is pressed by Thomas Cromwell's agent Thomas Bedyll #otd to acknowledge the King's Supremacy just as three #Carthusian priors were going to their deaths.

Exmew was hanged with two of his confrères on 19 June. (Museo Del Prado)

4 May 1513: Edmund de la Pole executed after years in the Tower #otd as his brother had claimed the throne of #England .

The #Franciscan provincial paid £7 15s 2d for his burial in Greyfriars without Aldgate (Rs-nourse)

Armoured shoe, Iran, 17th century (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Pendant with the Christ Child, c. 1650, #Spanish

(Art Institute Chicago)

4 May 1641: the House of Commons resolves #otd that the 1638 Star Chamber sentence against John Lilburne future #Leveller for printing & circulating unlicensed books - £500 fine , whipped, pilloried, and imprisoned - had been 'bloody, wicked, cruel, barbarous & tyrannical' (BM)

Bust of Prince Charles [II], left, hair long, in plain falling collar, richly figured armour, with lion's head on shoulder, medal suspended to a chain, and scarf across the breast (British Museum)

4 May 1626: Having made his last confession to his friend Bishop Nicholas Felton of Ely, Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath & Wells died #otd while attending parliament at #Westminster (The Bishop's Palace & Gardens)

4 May 1571: Dorothy Pakington, as she said herself, as 'Lord and owner of the town' of #Aylesbury #Buckinghamshire nominates the burgesses without any reference to the inhabitants #otd

4 May 1603: Progressing south from #Scotland James VI & I stays at Theobalds, the residence of William Cecil at Theobalds #Hertfordshire #otd (NPG/Nigel Cox)

Archduchess Isabella Klara Daughter of the Archduke Leopold V 1652, by Lorenzo Lippi (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)