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Mr. Pollard ( - )

Relevant locations: Residence at New-Lath
Relationships: John [Joseph] Pollard (-fl. 1707) was a same person as? (uncertain) Mr. Pollard
William Pollard (-fl. c. 1703) was a same person as? (uncertain) Mr. Pollard
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)

Fourscore Stones of different Forms and Bigness, some an Inch and a half long, others roundish and rugged, voided from the Penis of an aged Minister, Mr. Creswick of Beghall, and sent me by his Executor Mr. Priestly, who had a Box containing about Six hundred of them; they are dark coloured and gritty. Some large Stones voided, and others cut out of the Urethra of Joshua, the Son of Thomas Spurret of Leedes; two very odd ones taken out of the right Kidney, and two very large found in the Bladder when he was dissected Nov. 1711. by the ingenious Mr. S. Pollard, who presented them to me: One of them weighed near two Ounces, is 5 ½ Inches in Circumference one Way, and 4 the other. These are whiter and smoother than the Rest, but broader.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The Abbot of Kirkstal's Stirrup; it is of Cast Iron, the Sole seven Inches broad; given me by Mr. Pollard of New-Lath near Kirkstal. Spurs: One of Copper gilded, with a remarkable Neck, above six Inches long from the Heel to the Rowel. There is a Danish Spur of the same Length in the Bodleian Repository at Oxford; of which see Mr. Hearn's ingenious Discourse of Antiquities annexed to the first Vol. of Leland's Itinerary, p. 114. A Gingling Spur; it is of Brass, the Neck short, but Rowel very large, three Inches from Point to Point; the Danish Rowel hath six Points, this only five: That of Sir Ferdinando Leghs (of which before) hath twelve. Both these were given me by Mr. Sam. Smith Bell-founder. Another gilt Spur of a different Form from all the rest: A noted Antiquary tells us, that from their gilt Spurs, Knights are stiled Equites Aurati. (Selden's Titles of Honour, p. 437. & p. 474.) Of the Spanish Cavallero's de Espuela d'Orada, or Knights of the Golden Spurs, see the same Author, p. 575. Don. D. Godfr. Haddon. An odd Sort of a jointed Spur, with a six pointed Rowel, but not made to turn round as all the former do; and also those of later Times in-laid with Silver, of which here are two or three Sorts. There is almost as great Variety in the Buckles as in the Rowels, from little more than half an Inch to near three Inches in Breadth.

A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 his Stirrup of cast Iron plate, the sole seven inches broad. Mr Pollard