8 May 1613: Christopher Hampton is consecrated Archbishop of #Armagh#otd in St Patrick's #Dublin His pretty speedy consecration was due to an imminent #parliament He had earlier defended episcopacy at the #Scottish General Assembly in Glasgow on James VI & I's request. (NLI)
8 May 1661: in #Dublin, Bishop Jeremy Taylor preaches at the opening of #Parliament, he becomes vitriolic about 'criminally disobedient dissenters' #otd (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge) #Restoration.
29 Apr 1523: Thomas Wolsey seeks a grant of 4s in the £ from #parliament#otd to finance Henry VIII’s wars - the largest subsidy ever asked of them to date
They wouldn’t all have been unhappy to see Henry develop alternate income streams some 10 years later...
Espionage in the #European#parliament What kind of information might have slipped out? | #DW News
Across Western #Europe, anxiety about Chinese spying is growing. A man working for a prominent German politician from the far-right #AfD party has been arrested. Prosecutors accuse him of passing on information from the European parliament, where he worked since 2019, and of spying on the Chinese opposition abroad.