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In the image it says this was on the 'six and twentieth day of April' but on the main side of the settlement, in which the men agree to give Thornton's daughters money as their father had sold them some of the land which was to be theirs, the date is given as the 29th April. #EarlyModern 🗃️

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29 Apr. 1668 #OTD Alice Thornton's daughters, Alice and Katherine, signed a legal document to confirm that they had received £500 each from various male relatives who had acquired some of the land originally intended as their inheritance. They were 14 and 11 respectively. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜

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In the 1680s and 1690s Thornton wrote to Abstrupus Danby asking him to repay money that she had spent on his family in the 1660s when he was a child. By the later period, her family was in debt whereas Danby was doing very well for himself. Thornton mentions this debt in her will written in 1705. 🗃️

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25 Apr. 1699 #OTD Alice Thornton’s son-in-law, Thomas Comber, wrote to her: ‘I am glad you agree with me in resentments of that whifling Knight Sir A[bstrupus]:D[anby]: and am sorry your occasions should oblige you to make application to so ungrateful a wretch’. #EarlyModern 🗃️

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Charles II had his coronation #OTD 23 April 1661 at Westminster Abbey. If you're interested in how this event was remembered by Alice Thornton, living in North #Yorkshire, then @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social has written a blog post on that: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2... #EarlyModern 🗃️

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"did not approve" is an understatement. 😆

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22 Apr. 1667 #OTD Alice Thornton's niece, Anne Danby, left their house for a short stay at Howley Hall, Morley, where her best-friend, Martha Batt, was in the service of the Countess of Sussex. Thornton did not approve of James Savile, the 2nd Earl of Sussex, and his wife. #EarlyModern 🗃️

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For the other side of the story see www.dib.ie/biography/wa... which discusses the O'Brennans, who had been dispossessed of Idough, which became the Castlecomer estate, in 1635 and were still contesting this in the courts at the time of Thornton's letter. #EarlyModern 🗃️

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21 April 1682 #OTD Alice Thornton wrote a letter to her sister-in-law, Eleanor Wandesford, expressing concern about her brother Christopher’s estate in Ireland and offering reassurance: ‘I am sure there never was anything done in its purchase but what was most just and upright by my dear father’. 🗃️

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20 Apr. 1691 #OTD Alice Thornton wrote to John Tillotson, Dean of St Paul's. The woman she hoped would marry her son Robert didn't want to move north, so Thornton wrote to 'solicit my friends to endeavour his preferment there [in the south]; amongst which, worthy Sir, I account you the chief'. 🗃️

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Alice Thornton recounts this reconciliation, just before brother George's death on #Easter Monday, in the final pages of Book 1. This material was added later - much of the Book was written c.1669 - as she also recorded brother Christopher's death in 1686 fourteen pages earlier. #EarlyModern 📜 📚 🗃️

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Thornton’s brothers, George and Christopher Wandesford, were reconciled ‘on Easter Eve' 1651. She had been worried as their quarrel 'caused them to have such animosity' that they were not going to take communion on #Easter Sunday (Book 1). #EarlyModern 🗃️

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17 April 1660 #OTD Alice Thornton’s 6th child, William, was born and baptised. Thornton was staying at her Aunt Norton’s house (St Nicholas, Richmond). St Nicholas is the oldest continuously inhabited house in Richmond, Yorks. #EarlyModern #Yorkshire 🗃️

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From other letters we know that Robert Thornton, who died in 1692, was in considerable debt by 1688 and in 1689 he was working as a chaplain on a naval ship. #EarlyModern 🗃️

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15 Apr. 1693 #otd Thomas Comber wrote to Alice Thornton about her late son Robert's debts: 'we had a view of all the Navy Office, & it appears my poor brother received near £200 there, for which…his own acquittances are extant: Tis a riddle to know how he spent this and paid nobody.' #EarlyModern 🗃️

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Will of John Langly, Bandon, Co Cork, 1674: I do leave all my household goods, and farm...to my son, commonly called 'Stubborn Jack'...provided he marries a Protestant woman, but not Grace Kenny or Alice Kenny, who called me 'Oliver's whelp.' #grudge (Bennett, The History of Bandon)

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Hey @themerl.bsky.social: absolute units stolen from Alice Thornton in 1677...

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This case - about a period of time not covered in Thornton’s 4 extant Books - was a bit of a favourite with project postdocs @sharonhoward.bsky.social and @hagenilda.bsky.social.

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We are delighted to publish today 'Reading Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England', by Hannah Jeans bit.ly/4c7Oufy Hannah's is the 22nd title in the New Historical Perspectives book series with @ihr.bsky.social and @uolpress.bsky.social It's available free Open Access. #Skystorians 1/2

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10 April 1678 #OTD Alice Thornton brought a case at the quarter sessions in Thirsk against her former servant, John Calvert. In late 1677 Thornton had owned 32 ‘fat’ sheep (i.e., ready for slaughter) but they all mysteriously disappeared from the meadow near her house. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜

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9 April 1649 #OTD Alice Thornton's cousin, Julian Norton, died at the Nortons' house on the Green, Richmond. Julian was the daughter of Maulger and Anne Norton. She was born in 1632 and so was only 17 when she died. #EarlyModern 🗃️

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Oh this will be a treat! Between now and publication date, why not tuck into Kate's superb @historicaljnl.bsky.social article on 'Women and the History of Samuel Pepys's Diary'? Free to read open access and a fantastic piece of scholarship.

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3 April 1651 #OTD Alice Thornton’s brother, George Wandesford, was buried in St Michael’s, Kirklington. His body was brought from Catterick ‘by coach to Kirklington in the company of all the gentry in that part of Yorkshire with a greater lamentation and sorrow' (Bk 1). #EarlyModern 🗃️

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The Harvard Mahindra Center Seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World invites you to attend its yearly remote seminar on April 10 at 5:30ET, featuring Urvashi Chakravarty (U of Toronto) giving a talk entitled "'Fair Breeders': Gender and Heritability in the Early Modern World."

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My new book, co-authored with Michelle Dowd, is now out from Oxford University Press in the UK. US publication to follow shortly. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Spoiler: includes some info about what was in a fifth Thornton Book, which I only got after the funded project ended! #EarlyModern 📚 📜 🗃️

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To mark the end of #WomensHistoryMonth, I wrote this post on @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜 📚

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From grieving the loss of her mother to wanting to provide for her three fatherless children, Alice Thornton’s manuscript books reveal one woman’s perspective on life, death and the law in seventeenth-century England. Read Cordelia Beattie's blog here bit.ly/4iOOKTx

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One final reminder that the deadline to apply for our summer internship is this Friday!

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30 March 1651 #OTD Thornton received the sacrament in Hipswell Chapel with her mother, Alice Wandesford, and two brothers, George and Christopher, as it was Easter Sunday. That chapel no longer survives but part of its stone was reused when St John's, Hipswell was built in the 19thC. #EarlyModern 🗃️

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The #SolarEclipse that Thornton witnessed was actually #OTD in 1652! Read on for what that might portend… 🗃️

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There is a partial #SolarEclipse today. Did you know that Thornton witnessed a full eclipse in 1652? @hagenilda.bsky.social wrote us a post about it. #EarlyModern 🗃️ thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

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Proud to have contributed to this issue of Early Modern Studies Journal edited by Madeline Bassnett, on Climate Change and the Little Ice Age: earlymodernstudiesjournal.org

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28 March 1699 #OTD Alice Thornton wrote to her son-in-law, Thomas Comber, at Durham Cathedral, thanking him for letting his wife, Alice, visit her at East Newton. She advised Comber not to make the same journey in the wintry weather. How's the weather looking where you are today? #EarlyModern 🗃️

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'The quotidian concerns of Thornton’s Books ... may seem parochial, even trivial. But, by casting a global worldview on Thornton’s writings, we can begin to trace the worldwide effects of colonialism across the British Atlantic and the ripples they sent through everyday life.' #EarlyModern

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Continuing our #WomensHistoryMonth #throwback posts, our penultimate post is by Patricia Phillippy on Alice Thornton’s relationships with North American sojourners, Martha Batt and Anne Danby, and with Danby’s maid, Barbara Todd. #EarlyModern 🗃️ thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

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