The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Thomas Lunsford, Sir (c. 1610 - c. 1656)
Royalist colonel in the English Civil Wars Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/17197 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lunsford Relevant locations: Birth place in Sussex, EnglandRelationships: Alexander Cooke (-bur. 26 Mar 1672) was a employed by Thomas Lunsford
References in Documents:
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) (b) Sample string of Virginian Indian wampum (currency beads), collected on the river Rappahanock in the 1650s by the Revd.
Alexander Cooke , then a colonist with Sir Thomas Lunsford and later Rector of Chislet near Canterbury . Original paper label.
Bargrave's labels (Canterbury Cathedral loose papers) The Virginian
Natiues monyThe natiue
Virginian mony , gould, siluer, pearle,
brought ouer by
M
Mr.
Alexander Coocke that being thrust
owt of his liuing atDankester in Yorksheer
t o
SSir
Tho Lunsford
was made Minister ofChislet neere Canterbury in
Kent ,
by Archbishop Juxon .
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The black that is the gold. The name forgot,
The long white, their siluer caled Ranoke
The smale white theire pearle caled Wapenpake
The wife
And Daughter of
M
Mr.
Cooke gaue mee thē as a present
at a newe years time.
John Bargraue
Præb
Prebendary
Cant.
Canterbury
1673 .
Natiues mony
brought ouer by
r
owt of his liuing at
r
was made Minister of
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The black that is the gold. The name forgot,
The long white, their siluer caled Ranoke
The smale white theire pearle caled Wapenpake
r
at a newe years time.