1670s Collection

Morgan sacks Panama
Admiral Sir Henry Morgan (1635-1688) and his English buccaneers sack the Spanish city of Panama, looting immense wealth and returning to Jamaica a hero

Death of James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews, at the hands of militant Covenanters in front of his daughter on Magus Muir, outside St Andrews, on 3 May 1679. 1679

Covenanters prayer meeting in the glen of Drumclog, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, prior to the Battle of Drumclog, Sunday 1 June 1679

Map of the City of London by John Ogilby 1676. Ogilby (also Ogelby, Oglivie - 16001676) was a Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer

The Battle of Bothwell Bridge, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, 22 June 1679, fought between government troops and militant Presbyterian Covenanters, part of the Scottish Covenanter Wars

John Bunyan in Prison writing The Pilgrims Progress
John Bunyan (1628-1688) - English writer and Puritan preacher - writing The Pilgrims Progress during his twelve-year imprisonment (between 1661 and 1672)

Edward Bushell delivering the Jury's Verdict, 1670
Edward Bushell delivering the Jury's Verdict in the Court of Common Pleas, marking an important decision on the role of juries in England. Date: 1670

Scene from Brecourt's play, L'Ombre de Moliere (The Shade of Moliere), first performed in 1674, the year after Moliere's death. 17th century

Southwold Bay (Solebay), Suffolk, location of the Battle of Solebay, 7 June 1672, the first naval battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674). Date: 1672

Johann Christoph Purckhl of Regensburg, Germany
Johann Christoph Purckhl of Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, author of a number of books on law during the 1670s and 1680s. Date: circa 1670s

A travelling tinker in the Seventeenth Century
A Travelling Tinker in the Seventeenth Century. 17th century

View of the naval battle of Augusta (also known as the Battle of Agosta), Sicily, during the Franco-Dutch War. It was fought between a French fleet and a Dutch-Spanish fleet. Date: 22 April 1676

Drapers Hall Garden
In the early 17th century mulberry trees were planted probably following the example of James I

Scene from Molieres play, Les Amants magnifiques, first performed in 1670. 17th century

Scene from Molieres play, Le Malade Imaginaire, first performed in 1673. 17th century

Scene from Molieres play, La Comtesse d Escarbagnas, first performed in 1671. 17th century

Louis XIV & Colbert
In an agreeable garden setting, he looks through some documents prepared for his inspection by his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, in the 1670s/1680s Date: 1638-1715

Doorway of the Beguinage, Diest, Belgium
Doorway of the Beguinage, a community of lay religious women in Diest, Belgium, dating back to the 17th century. Date: circa 1910

Memorial stone, Quaboag, West Brookfield, Mass, USA
Memorial stone (Indian Rock) at Quaboag Plantation, West Brookfield, Mass, USA, where a siege took place by Native American (Nipmuc) Indians against English settlers. Date: circa 1907

Flying machine or airship
A flying machine or airship, 18th century copy of the one designed in the 17th century by Francesco Lana de Terzi, the Italian Jesuit, mathematician, naturalist and aeronautics pioneer

Eleanor Gwyns Home
The home of Eleanor Gwyn, actress and mistress of Charles II, at Sandford Manor House, Fulham, London. Date: 1670s

William III, when Prince of Orange 1650-1702. Unknown 17th century (after Sir Peter Lely 1618-1680). Date: 1670s (late)

Portrait of a Man, thought to be Sir Robert King, BT. 1636-1708 (1670s). Unknown 17th century. Date: 1670s

Portrait of a Woman (1670s). Maes, Nicolaes 1634-1693. Date: 1670s

Military music: 17th century drummer
A drummer in the Maine Regiment, 1676. Date: 1676

Regimental musicians at Moncks funeral, 1670
Two " drumms and a fife and the drumme-major" at the funeral of GEORGE MONCK Duke of ALBEMARLE, military commander and statesman. Date: 1670

Cleveland House, London
First built in the 1620s, then enlarged by Barbara Villiers, duchess of Cleveland (Charles IIs mistress) in the 1670s

College of Arms
COLLEGE OF ARMS OR HERALDS COLLEGE. This particular site dates from the 1670s the previous building having burnt down in the Great Fire

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