The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
George Fox (1624 - 1691)
Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10031?docPos=4 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fox Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...References in Documents:
English Lady's Hat; it is of black
Velvet, the Brim but 3 ½ Inches
broad, and the Crown four high, like a fluted Pillar of Thirty two
Wreaths or Rolls.
StrawHat about two Yards and a half in Cir
cumference. Don. D.
ClothHat almost of the same Di
mensions. Don.
Jac. Coningham
Proto-Quaker called
Skimming Dish Hats, and bore his Testimony
against them; and to confess the Truth, they are almost as Novel as
his Religion, Brimes being a modern Invention since round flat Caps
were disused.
as remarkably little, being but 3 ½ Inches inCaster
the Breadth of the Brim, and three in the Height of the Crown:
Bandof
Gold and green Ribband.
&c.
Sea-weed, worn when a proud Humour comes upon them. Don. D
Vertebræof
Snakes. Don. D.