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

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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:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

An 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. A Straw Hat about two Yards and a half in Circumference. Don. D. H. Pawson. A Cloth Hat almost of the same Dimensions. Don. Rev. Jac. Coningham. These are such as George Fox the 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. A Caster as remarkably little, being but 3 ½ Inches in the Breadth of the Brim, and three in the Height of the Crown: Yet a Wedding Hat of one of the same Generation, the Band of Gold and green Ribband. Other Hat-bands of Silver; of Bugle Work, &c. A Lithuanian Hat-band of Straw Work, with a Knot of white Sea-weed, worn when a proud Humour comes upon them. Don. D S. Madox. A Hat-band of three Rounds made of the Vertebræ of Snakes. Don. D. Geo. Sorocold.