The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Duke of Brandenburgh [ambiguous] ( - )

References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A FotFoot-prodder a Sort of Encentris of three Points in a Plate of Iron to screw under the Shoe Heel; it is used by both Sexes for more secure walking the Icy Streets, or passing the Rivers in Prussia, where they are sometimes frozen to that Degree, that the old Duke of Brandenburgh mustered Ten thousand Men upon the Ice at the Corish Hoff.