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John Big (1629 - 1696)

Alias John Bigg [Alias]

Once a clerk to "Judge Mayne [one of those who gave sentence upon K. Charles I], but afterwards liv'd in a Cave underground near Dinton, Buckinghamshire." Relevant locations: Residence at Dinton, Buckinghamshire
 Relationships: John Big was a employed by Mayne (-fl. 1649)

 Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - The History and antiquities of the County of Buckingham.
 Linked images:
John Big of Dinton

References in Documents:
An Exact and particular Account of the rarities in the Anatomy School (Oxford MS Rawlinson C. 865) 284 The Shoe of John Big, Tis of a prodigious large size, and his other cloathes were proportionable to it, being all joyn'd together, and made up of 100 patches of leather by himself. He was once a Clark to Judge Mayne [one of those who gave sentence upon K. Charles I] but afterwards liv'd in a Cave underground near Dinton Buckinghamshire.