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

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Marmaduke Fothergill (1654 - 1731)

Clergyman, scholar of Christian liturgy, and collector of books Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmaduke_Fothergill Cataloguer
 Relevant locations: Residence at Pontefract, Wakefield
 Relationships: Marmaduke Fothergill 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
 References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A Dispensation from Rome, An. 1402, for Tho. Hyppon and his Wife, to chuse a fit Confessor. (Don. D. Geo. Hippon.) A Grant of the Suffrages of the Prior of Mount-Grace to John Hodghsone, his Parents, &c. An. 1520. Indulgences from Will. Sutton miles, magister de Burton ordinis militie S. Lazari Jer. From Rob. Prior Ordin. beate Marie genetricis Dei de monte Carmeli in provincia Anglie: From Will. Thornburgh L. L. D. &c. This last is printed upon Parchment, An. 1504, (save the Name of the Purchaser Tho. Hammond) and concludes, Absolvo te ab omnibus penis Purgatorii que & tibi in purgatario debentur propter culpas & offensas contra deum commisisti, & te restituo illi innocentie in qua eras tempore quo baptizatus fuisti. In nomine Patris & Filii & Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Donum Rev. Marm. Fothergill.

Ralph Thoresby's guestbook of visitors to his museum (Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27)
July 12o 1704 Marmaducus ffothergillFothergill (of Pontefract clerk) O in Album CooptarsturCooptantur.[*] "Oh in the list are chosen."