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Ambrose Pudsey ( - )

Relevant locations: Lived at or near Bolton-by-Bowland, Lancashire
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

In Moscardus's Musæum is the Figure of a Brass Head, of the Bolt of a Roman Catapulta. Dr. Plot mentions the like in Staffordshire, the Figure of which Tab XXXIII. Fig. 5. exactly suits one of them found in Craven, about six Years ago, and was the Present of Ambrose Pudsey, of Bolton, juxta Bolland, Esq; in whose Grounds it was digg'd up by the Labourers as they were making a Fence, near the Moor now called Monnebents, perhaps from the Saxon Monec, monachus and bene a Prayer, except some notorious Slaughter of the Monks in after Ages might deduce it from beneoτen interficere. This is seven Inches long, and 2½ broad at the Edge, which was placed foremost for Execution, and is yet sharp and piercing, the wooden Stem was fitted into the Hollows of each Side of it, where it is an Inch and half thick.