The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
John Lake, Bishop of Sodor and Man (5 Dec 1624 - 30 Aug 1689)
Clergyman, ordained in 1647 and graduated D.D. at Cambridge in 1661. He was Vicar of Leeds, 1661–1663 and held various offices in Yorkshire, London, and elsewhere in England, including the bishoprics of Bristol and of Chichester. He was Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1682 to 1684, retaining residency at York until 1684 (having spent one summer on the Isle of Man), when he became Bishop of Bristol. Thoresby records attending a service at his own parish church where he heard Lake preach (1 June 1684, Diary, 1.175 and 2.432). It was probably around this time that the Bishop gave Thoresby some curiosities from the Isle of Man. He almost certainly the "Right Reverend Bishop of Man" whom Thoresby names as donor of a travel permit issued by the "Divan" of Algiers in 1663.Dictionary of National Biography entry: ttps://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/15902 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lake_(bishop) Donator of object(s)
Relevant locations: Birth place in Hallifax, West Yorkshire
Educated at St John's College (Cambridge), Cambridge University
Lived at or near Leeds, Leeds Parish
Lived at or near York, Yorkshire
Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. author of the topography of Leeds. (1677-1724).
as Mentions or references - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
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or impress'd with a Stile; it is above half a Yard long, and but an
Inch broad:
near 12 in Length; these by a Hole
punched at both Ends appear
to have been designed for a Book, and to be filed upon
Strings.
small Bengall
ditions of
the Bible.
sparent Indian Writing upon diffe
rent Sorts of Red Ink
and Black,Gold upon
blew made up
into a Fan,
before.
of the Sclavonian
Character in a Roll of
Don. D. Book or Scroll of 17
Yards two Foot
long, wrap'd up in
Quartoeight Inches broad, from
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dom of
Pen. Don. D.
of
in
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H.'s
by
whose Translation of the New Testament into modern
Greek, was
printed
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Jo. Hardy
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brew
Law mentioned by
Grew
Society
Eliz. Bland
mitive Language (wherein she was instructed by the Lord
mont
, given me byTurkish
Commission
the said
Bland
large,
viz. three Inches broad, and above half a Foot in Length.
Divan ofAlgiers 's
John Lawson
Arabickgilded. Don. D.
but
note, the
Wax, but
Ink; the Emperor's Name
being usually written with Flourishes, and in perplexed Characters;
nor have they any Coat of Arms upon their Seals, there being no
such Thing as Gentility among them. (
Smith
tinople
ManxWarrant or Token is not
to be understood of one under Hand and Seal upon Paper, but of a
blew
Slate, about the Bigness of a Crown-Piece,with the
Slate
DeemstersMark
upon it, which being delivered to the Defendant, he is obliged to
appear. (Vide
Cambd. Brit. N. E. p. 1066.
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Tho. Sodor & Man), and upon the other the
Governor'sMark,
for the Person charged thereby, being a Soldier, was not to be forced
from his Post by any Power but the Governor's. The
Bishop of
now as much in Use as ever, and the People pay a readier Obedi
ence to them, than to an Order under Hand and Seal.
Camden British Brass
Swords found in
England
and
, to which I may add that others are digg'd up inWales
,Ireland
and the
, that which I received fromIsle of Man
is mentionedDublin
already,
pag. 473. Since which I have been honoured with some va
luable Curiosities from the Learned
Sodor and Man
which is one of the Brass
in that Island.