The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Letitia Molesworth ( - 1730)
Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18901?docPos=7 Linked print sources: as Previous owner - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)
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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
fromPrussia the Ivory curiously inlaid. Don.
D. S. Madox .A
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
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is covered with Silks of different Colours.
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the said Lady.
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