The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Nathaniel Hulme (c. 1687 - fl. 1704)
Nathaniel Hulme was a boy whose digits grew "Horny Excrescencies, which fell off once a Year" (Ducatus Leodiensis, 431). Described by Richard Wroe as "aged about 17" at the time of his writing in 1704. In a second, follow-up letter, printed along with the first, Wroe indicates he has sent samples to the Royal Society, and a postscript to this second letter states, "One of the Horns above-mentioned is now in the Repository of the Royal Society" (Wroe, 1900). Relevant locations: Lived at or near Bolton, Greater ManchesterLived at or near Bolton, Lancashire
Linked print sources: as Agent - source of object - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
as Subject of/in a document - Part of two letters from the Reverend Dr Rich Wroe, warden of Manchester colledge, to Dr Hans Sloane, S. R. S. concerning horn-like excrescences growing on the fingers, &c. .
References in Documents:
of the
Toes, grew certain Horny Excrescencies, which fell
off once a Year.
He was living An. 1704
and had then both
his Hands armed with them: Those upon his Toes
he kept under by continually cutting,
that he might be able to wear
Shoes. The WroeManchester College
ged me with Horns
growing upon her
Head, An. 1680.e)e)
Dr. Hist. of
and
it, which
is engraven upon a Silver Plate fixed thereunto.
This Horn was cut (by
the Head of
Ear; before these
Witnesses
Andrew Temple, Tho, &c.
14 May 1671
Fifty.
The Keeper of the Library told me it was nine Inches long.
a Horny
long growing from the fingers of the
Bolton
Lancashire
by
r.
Wroe
Manchest