Susan Margaret Cooper - Author & Researcher 📜
@SueCooperBridge
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A passion for history. Often in the 17th century, sometimes in the 18th, rarely in the 21st. Writing for pleasure. 📚
England Shires
Joined November 2013
A #Scandalous #17thCentury #Crime of #Bigamy!. A true story: . Two Countesses of Banbury! One married in an alehouse🍻in Covent Garden, the other at a church💒in Verona. Which bride would you judge to be the rightful spouse? 👰👰.
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RT @SueCooperBridge: #QueenCaroline perused the play’s manuscript at #HamptonCourt nearly four weeks before it’s premiere on 27 July 1731.….
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RT @SueCooperBridge: #HistoryBits📜🎭.#OTD 1739 d. George Lillo, playwright & jeweller. His most famous play, The London Merchant premiered i….
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#QueenCaroline perused the play’s manuscript at #HamptonCourt nearly four weeks before it’s premiere on 27 July 1731. She must have approved!👑📜👍
#HistoryBits📜🎭.#OTD 1739 d. George Lillo, playwright & jeweller. His most famous play, The London Merchant premiered in 1731 at Drury Lane Theatre on which performance my ancestor actor Roger Bridgwater played the role of Thorowgood, Barnwell's wealthy, kind, & virtuous master.
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RT @17thCenturyLady: Hear ye! This Saturday, 6 September 2025 will be #StuartSaturdayLive! .Professor Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham and D….
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RT @1642Author: 📅#OTD 1645. Sir Edward Nicholas wrote to King Charles I about his cousin, Lord Bernard Stuart. Having raised 'Barny' to the….
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#HistoryBits📜🎭.#OTD 1739 d. George Lillo, playwright & jeweller. His most famous play, The London Merchant premiered in 1731 at Drury Lane Theatre on which performance my ancestor actor Roger Bridgwater played the role of Thorowgood, Barnwell's wealthy, kind, & virtuous master.
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RT @SteveCaple4: London's weekly bill of mortality 1720 as reported by Northampton Mercury. I wonder what 'rising of the lights' was? https….
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RT @KingCharlesIRTN: Paying respects to Nicholas Ferrar .St John's Church.Little Gidding. "How happy a King were I, if I had many more suc….
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RT @tonyriches: The Great Fire of London #onthisday 3rd September 1666 - Houses are pulled down to prevent the fire reaching the Tower of L….
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RT @brown_bookshelf: Elizabeth I knew that in executing her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, she was cheapening the lives of monarchs generally….
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RT @AnnetteRubery: Just thinking about the witches’ marks I saw carved in the fireplace at Milton’s Cottage. This one is a Daisy Wheel (or….
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RT @BoWSociety: On this day, 3 September 1651, 374 years ago, the Battle of Worcester was fought. Oliver Cromwell’s victory ended the Civil….
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RT @fotofacade: How lovely is this church? Another from my Pocketable Churches series… All Saints’, Billesley in Warwickshire. Once at the….
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RT @1642Author: ⚔️#OTD 1650, Battle of Dunbar. Dr Arran Johnston chats to me about the battle. Vivid detail about the encounter & how the….
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RT @Warwalks: @SueCooperBridge Thank you for the sad reminder. 😥 The following months are hard for any late #17thCentury historian, especia….
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The story of Alicia Lisle, the first to die in Judge Jeffreys campaign in the west, the Bloody Assizes, September 1685
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RT @1642Author: 📚Released Today📚.Prince Rupert of the Rhine is now out on Amazon kindle!. 'The real joy of the book is its ability to breat….
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RT @SueCooperBridge: HistoryBits📜👨⚖️🪓.#OTD 1685 d. #AliceLadyLisle the last woman to be executed by judicial sentence of beheading by #Geo….
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RT @CMaclean96: This pistole of William II is the last Scottish gold coin ever minted. It was struck in 1701 from gold imported from West A….
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RT @AdeysAlthorp: One of our resident common buzzards was in full "mewing" mode this evening. It answered me every time that I called to it….
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