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Thomas Clapham, Vicar of Bradford ( - fl. 1703)

Vicar Donator of object(s)
Visitor
Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Bradford, West Yorkshire
Relationships: Thomas Clapham was a visitor to the collection of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

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 ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The History of Joseph of Arimathea's entombing our Saviour, whose emaciated Corps is very well represented in the Winding-sheet. There are eight Statues in Alabaster (Parcel gilt) in the Compass of nine Inches broad, and thirten thirteen long. It is supposed to have been an Altar-Piece at Kirkstall Abbey, where being concealed at the Dissolution of the House; it was found about fifty Years ago, and preserved by Justice Stanhope, and sent me by his Relict. The History of our Saviour' s Ascension supposed to have belonged to the old Temple at Newsam, being found in an ancient Building there. Don. D. Bywater. The Offerings of the Three Kings or Magi, (Old English in the Saxon); it is about half a Yard high, the Drapery well performed; it was sent me from besides Fountain's Abbey by Mrs. Hincks. St. Cuthbert, with a Book in one Hand, and the Head of St. Oswald the King, by the other, of which see Cressy's Church Hist. XV. 361. It was found near Burnsal Church, and given me by the Rev. Mr. Clapham Vicar of Bradford.

Ralph Thoresby's guestbook of visitors to his museum (Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27)
— — —nova veteribus non sunt potiora.[*] Æsop's Fables, Fable XII: "New things are not better than old" Tho:Thomas Clapham (Vicar of Bradford)