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Butler, Captain ( - )

References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A Spanish Weapon, almost in Form of an Halbert; the Wood is adorned with Brass Studs, the Iron (which is a little damask'd) engraven with the Figure of a Castle, &c. Perhaps that of Xixona in Valencia, where it was taken by Capt. Butler (who gave it me) when the English reduced that Place to the Obedience of King Charles III. An. 1706.

A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 a sort of Spanish Halberd taken out of the Castle of Xixona in Valensia, wn the English first reduced it that place to the obedience of Charles 3d. Ano. 1706. Capt. Butler.