I have a kitchen mortar, but nothing as grand as this piece from 1603, modelled by Caspar Gras, 1585–1674, who worked at the Hapsburg Court at Innsbruck (Met Museum)
4 June 1470: Pope Paul II issues a Bull granting a plenary indulgence to all pilgrims visiting St Thomas Becket's shrine at #Canterbury Cathedral on the jubilee date of 29 Dec 1470 - the 300th anniversary. 68 years later it would be destroyed.
4 June 1623: William Bishop (really!) aged 70, consecrated Bishop of Chalcedon, bishop for #England's Catholics in #Paris#otd A short mission as he died on 13 April 1624. (NPG)
4 June 1660: Charles II is given a copy of George Fox the Younger's 'A noble Salutation' #otd - the king is reputed to have promised that Quakers would be left alone... (eebo)
4 June 1597: Richard Vaughan of Dyffryn, Llyn, Caernarvonshire confirmed as Bishop of Chester #otd, translated from Bangor. He would become Bishop of #London in 1604 (NLW)
4 June 1550 : Amy Robsart marries Robert Dudley, future Earl of #Leicester at Sheen #otd She famously died in a mysterious fall at Cumnor ten years later. (NPG/ Nottingham Castle - a 19thC imagining of the scene)