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View of the courtyard in Gresham College

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had achieved the feat 12 days earlier

View of new London Bridge on left and old London Bridge on right

The Council of War Size:XL: 120 x 80cm View of the courtyard inThe Council of War, 1623 1624, (1893). The future King Charles I travelled to Spain in 1623 to arrange a marriage to the Infanta Maria Anna, daughter of Philip III of Spain. The trip was a disaster, with the Spanish insisting that Charles convert to Catholicism and remain in Spain for a year as conditions of the marriage going ahead. On his return to England, the outraged Charles asked his father, James I, to declare war on Spain. Broadside in the