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S Maddox ( - )

Relationships: S Maddox was a same person as? (uncertain) Sus[ ] Maddox (-1704)

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)

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.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Fans. One of Wood from the Indies; it is composed of twenty four Plates that expand to (near) a Yard in Circumference, yet folds up into little more than an Inch broad. Don. D. Sam. Stubs. Another from Prussia the Ivory curiously inlaid. Don. D. S. Madox. A Turkish Fan above a Foot and half long, and almost as broad; the Handle is painted Cane, the Fan it self consists of 18 Swan Quills expanded at the broad End, but reduced to a Point at the Handle, from whence it is covered with Silks of different Colours. A Hymn or Prayer, in the Indian Characters express'd in Gold upon a blew Ground, and made up into a Fan for Madam Lettice Molesworth, Sister to the Earl of Bellmont, Governour of New England and New Yorke. The Gift of the said Lady.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Don. D. S. Madox. Modern Swedish Spurs, the Rowels of 24 Points, a Chain instead of the Under-Leather. Don. D. Sigbr. Rosenbuch. A Turkish Horse Shoe; it is a flat Piece of Iron, with little more than an Inch cut out, and Holes for six Nails. Don. S. Molineux Arm. A Foreign Whip for Posters wrought hollow, &c. Don. J. Boulter Arm.

A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 a Lithuanian Hatband of strawwork, with a bunch of white seaweed, worn wn a proud humour comes upon them. Mrs. S: Madox.
A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 an Iron Spur or stay rather to screw under ye shoe heel for more secure walking the Icy sheets in Norway, Prussian Mrs S: Maddox