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Robert Bargrave (1628 - 1661)

Merchant, diarist, traveler, and merchant, and cousin of the collector John Bargrave. The cousins traveled together between Sienna and Florence in the early summer of 1647. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/68249/?back=,1370 Relevant locations: Birth place in Kent, England
 Relationships: Robert Bargrave was a son of Isaac Bargrave (c. 12 Jun 1586-1643)
Robert Bargrave was a cousin of John Bargrave (1610-1680)

 Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - A relation of sundry voyages & journeys made by mee Robert Bargrave, younger sonn to Dr. Jaacke Bargrave, Deane of Canterbury.
as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave: Levant merchant (1647-1656).
as Collector (minor) - The Cabinet of Curiosities in Seventeeth-Century Britain.
as Subject of/in a document - The Exile of Two Kentish Royalists During the English Civil War.
 References in Documents:
Gentle Traveller (Curatorial catalogue) Dr Bargrave had fewer Roman coins, about 32 silver and 180 bronze; while Casaubon’s was strong in the 3rd century A.D., Bargrave’s collection was predominantly of the 1st century. But he also had a substantial collection of about 420 coins of his own age, gold, silver and bronze, mostly from the countries which he himself had visited, but with examples from elsewhere. His cousin, Robert Bargrave the Levant merchant, may have given coins from Poland and Turkey, which he had visited.
A memo dated 28 April 1658 (Canterbury Cathedral loose papers) A greate gould ring with my uncle Roberts seale.