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Hello everyone! I'm moving!

My new art blog is @mesmoray, and that's where I'm going to be posting from now on :)

You'll find some explanation on why I've decided to do this on my pinned post there, but essentially, I just want to craft myself a better online experience with a fresh start.

You'll notice that I'm going by a new name there! Mutuals (<3), if you know me by a different name, that is okay! But unless we're in private conversation, I'd prefer to go by Moray.

I will not be deleting magiccowboyhat or secretcowboyhat, but they're both going to be inactive once I've fully moved to mesmoray. It would just break my heart to make it all disappear like that.

That's all! Thanks for reading :)

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This is kind of old news by now but John Blanke, Henry VII and Henry VIII’s trumpeter who figured in the Westminster Tournament Roll (1511) may have started his career at the Tudor court earlier than it was previously assumed according to Dr Cunningham’s finding at the National Archives:

One of the current theories is that John arrived in England as part of Catherine of Aragon’s entourage in 1501. He would have joined a group of seven existing trumpeters retained by Henry VII sometime before December 1507, when he is first recorded as receiving his wages as a musician. Blanke received an annual wage of £12, ‘twice that of an agricultural labourer and three times the average servant’s wage’ (x). However, it is possible now that he had already joined Henry VII’s household as a footman in 1488.