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Robert Jackson ( - Jul 1730)

Rector of Adle. A known visitor of the Thoresby collection, he might also be the source of an inkhorn made by Ellen Ellis of Sheffield (Leeds MS YAS17, f. 16). Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Adel, West Yorkshire
Relationships: Robert Jackson was a visitor to the collection of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

Linked manuscript items: as Mentioned or referenced by - "A Catalogue of the chiefest rarityes in Gresham College by Nahtnial [sic] Grew D M. 81," British Library Sloane 2346, London
as Mentioned or referenced by - "[Guest Book to Thoresby's Museum]," Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27, Leeds
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The Head of a Crosier's Staff; it is of Copper gilt and enamel'd, in the Form of a Serpent, the Scales of a changeable Blew, very natural, but so is not the Head, which being designed for Shew on both Sides, has a Face and two Eyes on each Side. Don. D. Sam. Smith. Part of a Priest's Habit, concealed at the Reformation in a double bottom Ark near a Chantry in Leedes: It has three Pictures of St. Peter, &c. delicately wrought in Silver and Silk of divers Colours; part of the said Vestment fell into the Hands of one who burnt it merely for the Silver's Sake, though she had too much before; but this, and a Manuscript found with it, were preserved by my Father. The Pix, or huel-bozhusel-bozhuel-boxhusel-box (a little Iron Locket) from Kirkstal Abbey for the Eucharist, or haliᵹe huelhalige husel, as I apprehend from Linwood's Const. Prov. but am since told by a Person of Honour, that it was for preserving the Relicks, which Party having been at Rome, with the last Ambassador that was sent from the Crown of England to the Pope, may well be presumed very knowing in these Matters; however it comes under the more general Notion of huel-fauhusel-fatu, or Vasa Sacra; (Wheelock's Bede, p. 98.) As also doth the Foot of a Lamp, or leoh-æleoht-faet; it is of Copper engraved in Branches, with this Inscription in old Letters, (The S in Jesus like C) Ihc. Nazarenus, rex Judeorum fili Dei Miserere mei. The Figure of St. Anthony in Padua, in an Oval Copper very well per formed in Bass-Relieve, embracing and kissing our Saviour, who in the Form of a lovely Child, sits upon his Book; (see Patrick's Reflect. p. 322.) Don. Jo. Boulter Arm. The Picture of St. Anthony the Hermit, with his Bell, Book and Pig, the Prayer to him for Cure of the Inflammation commonly called St. Anthony's Fire, may be seen in the Horæ beatæ Mariæ, before-mentioned, p. 84. b. This came from a Religious House in Derbyshire, and was given me by the Rev. Mr. Jackson Rector of Addel: It is painted upon Glass, as is also the Holy Banner, with Spes mea in Deo est; the Crown of Thorns, and other Fragments of Crucifixes, from the Windows of the Parish Church at Leedes. But what is most remarkable is a small Quarry from York-Minster, (Don. Hen. Gyles,) wherein a Goose in a Religious Habit is carrying the Crosier's Staff, &c. the Procession is made up of the like Fowls: This seems to have been made in Hatred of the Monks, whom the Secular Clergy abhorred for encroaching upon their Rights, and being now repossessed thereof, recriminate, &c.

A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 a brass Inkern made & engraved by a woman (Ellen Ellis of Sheffield) Mr Rt Jackson
Ralph Thoresby's guestbook of visitors to his museum (Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27)
May. X.o 1706. Non patris comporese magna solebor[*] "Not of father I will become accustomed to consume together" ? Rob:Robert Jackson. (Rector of Adle)