The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
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 UniversityRelationships: 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:
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
May1671
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 er