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Mrs. Hoyl ( - )

Mrs. Hoyle is mentioned in Ralph Thoresby's diary, volume 2: "finished the perusal of the (Six) Ladies' Diaries, the ingenious author's present Mr. Beighton of Coventry, (when he came to see the museum, wherein are many curious enigmas, &c. proposed and answered by several of the female sex, particularly of this county, Astreea (Mrs. Hoyle, of Craven.)" Page 297 Relevant locations: Residence at Craven, Yorkshire
Linked print sources: as Artisan or Craftsman - creator - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Glass-bubles with Water and green Tincture included. A Table-Book the Cover whereof is admirable fine Work of Scarlet and Silver, done by Mrs. Margaret Towneley Chanoness Regular at the English Augustines in Paris. Don. D. Fran. Kennet. The Instruments of our Saviour's Passion (Nails, Pincers, Scourges, &c.) cut out of thin Plates of Brass and fastened (with Wires on the In-side) upon an Egg-shell very dextrously; Mrs. Madox brought me it from Prussia. Two Histories very neatly cut in Paper, by Mrs. Hoyl in Craven. A Chain near a Yard long cut out of a Card by Sir G. H's. G. H.'s Daughter. Another very fine of thirty four Links, full two Yards long, by a Gentlewoman in Craven, and sent me by Dr. Hargrave of Coln.

A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 2 Historys very neatly cut in paper by Mrs. Hoyle in Craven MadMadam Aldburgh