The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Thomas Whitaker ( - 1710)
Congregational minister: “VDM” verbi divini minister (Minister of the Divine Word) in Ralph Thoresby's annotation. Whitaker was pastor to the congregation of the The Main Riding House in Call Lane, Leeeds, from 1675 to his death in 1710, succeeding the original pastor, Christopher Nesse. He was in turn succeeded by William Moult, who was in turn succeeded by Whitaker's son Thomas. Whitaker was the son of a physician at Burnley, Lancashire (Hunter, 1: 132-3, n.). VisitorRelevant locations: Lived at or near Burnley, Lancashire
Residence at Leeds, Leeds Parish
Relationships: William Moult (-1727) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Thomas Whitaker
Linked manuscript items: as Mentioned or referenced by - "[Guest Book to Thoresby's Museum]," Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27, Leeds
Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
as Mentions or references - The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. author of the topography of Leeds. (1677-1724).
References in Documents:
Prussian Boot of red Leather for a very lusty
Man, yet the
Heel but an Inch and a half broad. The Gift of the
Perrot.
at all, but a thin Red Leather the Length of the whole Foot. Don.
Iron Plate for the Heel; as also the first hath. Don.
Tho. Whita
ker
ker
for theShoe
Meaner; it is made of the
Bark of Treessomewhat after the Manner
of Coal-Baskets in the North of
generally worn by the poor People in
bind it to the Leg by the Cord which seems to be of platted Sedges.
Don. D.
Sabot, or
.Irish
Brogue
SilkShoe from
adorned with Needle-work (for which the
mous); as is also the Silk upon the Heel, which is large considering
the Smalness of the Shoe, for the cripled Lady: This was brought
from thence, and given me by
Midgeley
also the red
5 ½ from the Toe to the Heel inclusive.
fromSlippers
a Crescent, or Semicircle of Iron for the Heel, (from
Molineux
Strawfrom
per
key
CorkSole an Inch thick, covered with gilded Lea
ther.
Charles SavageEsq
(a younger Son of the
Rivers)
who married one of his Daughers and Coheirs.
a child
in one, of yelshoe & stockin
low leather, with Iron heel, worn by
the richer sort of people in
Quid Deus nisi Meus?[*] "Who is God except mine"