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

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Englishmen (unidentified) who fished up a coin ( - fl. 1687)

References in Documents:
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

Thomas Creech, Bachelor of Theology and Fellow of All Souls, gave a silver Spanish medal, encrusted with pseudo-coral, found in the treasure of a Spanish ship sunk on the high seas in Queen Elizabeth's reign, and fished up from it by Englishmen in 1687. See the Vice-Chancellor's Catalogue, no. 956.