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Sanf [?] Nevile ( - )

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

The German Silk-Tail, a rare Bird omitted by the Ornithologists, but described in the Phil. Trans. N° 175. It is a Bird of Passage, yet two of them shot in this Parish, An. 1702. Don. D. Sanf. Nevile. A very Large Quill of an Anonymous Bird. It is little short of the Cunter (Phil. Trans. N° 208.) the Quill Part being above five Inches long, one of these Birds will assault and kill a Boy of ten or twelve Years of Age, and two of them attempt and devour a Bull or Cow. Double feather'd Quills. A Feather of an African Hen. A Feather taken out of the Coffin of Robert Braybrook Bishop of London (who died of the Plague, An, 1404.) when his Body was taken up after the Fire of London. Don. D. Tho. Ireton de Ireton Arm.