The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Netherwood ( - )

Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
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Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A Land Tortoise, 6 ½ Inches long, and 5 ½ broad. The Shell of a Tortoise curiously chequer'd, so ridged on the Back, that the Convexity of the Shell is equal to its length, viz. 6 ½ Inches. Don. Gul. Thornton Mil. A flat one from Barbadoes; the convex Work is composed of Black and Citrine, 13 entire round, or rather Pentagonal Figures, besides the Halves at the Edge. Don. D. Netherwood.