The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
William Somner (1598 - 1669)
English antiquarian scholar, the author of the first dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language. He contributed to William Dugdale and Roger Dodsworth's Monasticon Anglicanum. His Chartham news: or A brief relation of some strange bones there lately digged up in some grounds of Mr. John Somner's was published posthumously by his brother in 1669.Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26030 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Somner Relationships: William Somner was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654)
William Somner was a associate or acquaintance (general) of William Dugdale (12 Sep 1605-10 Feb 1686)
John Somner (-fl. 1669) was a relative of William Somner
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Chartham news: or A brief relation of some strange bones there lately digged up in some grounds of Mr. John Somner's was published posthumously by his brother in 1669..
References in Documents:
Grew, Musaeum Regalis (1685) Part of the Upper JAW
of a strange HEAD, toge
ther with somefragments of other Bones , and three very
Great DoubleTEETH , or Grinders, all supposed to be of the
same Animal. Found, about twelve years since, seventeen
feet under Ground, inChartham a Village three miles from
Canterbury . The
Ground within twelve Rods of the River
running thither, and so to
. An Account
hereof is written byMr. William Somner : yet without a
Description of the
Discourse, wherein he endeavours to prove, That all the
low Ground from theRomney-Marsh ,
was once under Water, and an Arm of the
since his Death, by his Brother Mr.John
Somner : in whose
Ground these Bones were dig'd up; and by whom they
were bestowed upon thisMusæum .
ther with some
Great Double
same Animal. Found, about twelve years since, seventeen
feet under Ground, in
running thither, and so to
Sandwich-Haven
hereof is written by
Description of the
Jaw. But supposing it to be part of
Hippopotamus, takes occasion thence for a
Discourse, wherein he endeavours to prove, That all the
low Ground from the
East-Kentish
shore, to
was once under Water, and an Arm of the
Sea. Published,
since his Death, by his Brother Mr.
Ground these Bones were dig'd up; and by whom they
were bestowed upon this