{"id":453,"date":"2012-04-04T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T08:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/kaislani\/?p=453"},"modified":"2012-04-04T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T08:28:09","slug":"deer-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/2012\/04\/04\/deer-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer heads for Mr Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This inclosed to yo<em>u<\/em>r lo<em>rdshi<\/em>p is from francis\u00a0Seagar serua<em>n<\/em>t to the lantgraue of Hess [.] \u00a0he hath sent also to yo<em>u<\/em>r lo<em>rdshi<\/em>p 2 deeres heades\u00a0the one of a Rayne deere, the other of\u00a0an Ealand a kynd of deer soe caled ther [.]\u00a0the heades are heer att my chamber att\u00a0somersett howse vntill I vnderstand yo<em>u<\/em>r lo<em>rdhi<\/em>p<em>&#8216;s\u00a0<\/em>pleasure for the tyme it please you to haue\u00a0them brought to Cort to see them, they\u00a0were sent to me by Garter king att Armes\u00a0fra<em>ncis<\/em>\u00a0seagars brother, who wold haue attended\u00a0yo<em>u<\/em>r lo<em>rdshi<\/em>p w<em>i<\/em>th them him selfe but that he is\u00a0sicke. It may please yo<em>u<\/em>r lo<em>rdshi<\/em>p to lett me knowe whe<em>n\u00a0<\/em>I shall <s>send<\/s>\u00a0bringe them vp, bycause the messenger that\u00a0brought them desyres to be att the deliuery of\u00a0them.<\/p>\n<p>Somersett howse<br \/>\n9ber 30. 1605 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">yo<em>u<\/em>r lo<em>rdshi<\/em>ps most humble serua<em>n<\/em>t<br \/>\nTho: wilson.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">(Thomas Wilson to the Earl of Salisbury, CP 113\/60)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I should of course only post this blog with some commentary on the above, but it will have to suffice for me to say that I was amused by the idea of someone sending deers&#8217; heads as a gift to Cecil. I am presuming they are mounted for display. Which raises the question, how long has taxidermy been around to decorate the smoking rooms of the rich and <s>famous<\/s> more rich..?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This inclosed to your lordship is from francis\u00a0Seagar seruant to the lantgraue of Hess [.] \u00a0he hath sent also to your lordship 2 deeres heades\u00a0the one of a Rayne deere, the other of\u00a0an Ealand a kynd of deer soe caled ther [.]\u00a0the heades are heer att my chamber att\u00a0somersett howse vntill I vnderstand your lordhip&#8216;s\u00a0pleasure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,30,41],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside","tag-cool-stuff","tag-early-modern-europe","tag-manuscripts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}