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Richard Wroe (1641 - 1717/8)

Clergyman and Warden of Manchester College Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30080?docPos=2 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wroe Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Manchester College, Oxford University
Relationships: Richard Wroe was a donor to Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - 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. .
as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

In the Philosophical Transactions, N° 297. is registred an Account of the Bolton Boy (Nath. Hulme), upon whose Thumbs, Fingers and Toes, grew certain Horny Excrescencies, which fell off once a Year. He was living An. 1704, had shed them five or six several Times, 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 Reverend Dr. Wroe, Warden of Manchester College, obliged me with one of these Horns, which is three Inches long. A late Author has given us the Picture of Mary Davis of Chester, with two growing upon her Head, An. 1680. (e)(e) Dr. Leigh's Hist. of Lanc. and Chesh. Tab. VII. . And in the Bibliotheca at Edinburg, I saw a remarkable Horn, and transcribed this Account of it, which is engraven upon a Silver Plate fixed thereunto. This Horn was cut (by Arthur Temple Chyrurgeon) out of the Head of Elizabeth Love, being three Inches above the Ear; before these Witnesses Andrew Temple, Tho, &c. 14 May 1671. It was growing seven Years; her Age Fifty. The Keeper of the Library told me it was nine Inches long.

A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 a Horny excrescence above 2 ½ inches long growing from the fingers of the Bolton Boy in Lancashire sent me by Dr. Wroe Warden of Manchester