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[theirmarks]

the mark of wagésuk

Nipmuc, of Wabbaquasset, Chaubunagungamaug or Magunkaquog.

This document, signed by Wagesuk, Wuttasacomponom, Job Kattenanit and others, reports to be submitted on behalf of “...We the inhabitants of Quanutusset, Mônuhchogok, Chaubunakongkomuk, Asukodnôcog, kesepusqus, wabuhqushish and the adjacent parts of Nipmuk…”It pledges the submission of  inhabitants of those praying towns to the government of Massachusetts. It’s signed in 1668, a little less than a decade before the War would begin and at a time where tensions were high between Nipmuc and Mohawk tribal communities. 

Seen at the Massachusetts State Archives.

[burningvelvet]

From the play The Richmond Heiress (1693) by Thomas d'Urfey

[historicalfashionnerd]

Katherine Knyvett, Countess of Sussex by Paul van Somer

In Journey from Chester to London, published in 1782, Thomas Pennant wrote of her portrait then at Gorhambury, Hertfordshire: In the room is a fine full-length of the countess of Suffolk, daughter of Sir Henry Knevit, and wife to the lord treasurer. She is dressed in white, and in a great ruff; her breasts much exposed: her waist short and swelling; for she was extremely prolific. This lady had unhappily a great ascendancy over her husband, and was extremely rapacious. She made use of his exalted situation to indulge her avarice, and took bribes from all quarters.

[wyrdhounds]

Planisphærium cœleste - Frederik de Wit (1670) details

[postconnaissance]

Hans Ulrich Franck - The Horseman’s End, c. 1656

cit. Sontag - Regarding the Pain of Others (2004)

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MUSIC ART WORDS: 1680

Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas: When I am laid in earth (1680)

Baciccio, Rinaldo and Armida (c. 1680)

Wentworth Dillon, Horace's Art of poetry made English by the Right Honourable the Earl of Roscommon (1680)

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Chanel 17C Cruise 2017 Cord and Pearl Mule Slides

[theirmarks]

Sachemus his mark

Presumably Wampanoag. Unfortunately, the top left portion of this land transfer document, and therefore much of the text, is missing from the Newberry Library’s copy. Another deed (also a later copy of an original) signed on the same date, complete but with different wording (so perhaps another land transfer facilitated by the same people on the same day) is part of the collection of the Sturgis Library (third slide). The Sturgis deed identifies Sachemus as the “Sachem of Satuckett” [sic] and the pictograph mark is the same. Here, Satuckett or Satucket is suggested to be the place now commonly referred to as “Dennis, Massachusetts.” Both signed December 3, 1663.

A copy of the original (first and second slides), seen at the Newberry Library.