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

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Robert Braybrooke, Bishop of London (1336/7 - 1404)

Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3301?docPos=4 Relationships: Robert Braybrooke was a source of object(s) for Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

Linked print sources: as Subject of/in a document - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The German Silk-Tail, a rare Bird omitted by the Ornithologists, but described in the Phil. Trans. N° 175. It is a Bird of Passage, yet two of them shot in this Parish, An. 1702. Don. D. Sanf. Nevile. A very Large Quill of an Anonymous Bird. It is little short of the Cunter (Phil. Trans. N° 208.) the Quill Part being above five Inches long, one of these Birds will assault and kill a Boy of ten or twelve Years of Age, and two of them attempt and devour a Bull or Cow. Double feather'd Quills. A Feather of an African Hen. A Feather taken out of the Coffin of Robert Braybrook Bishop of London (who died of the Plague, An, 1404.) when his Body was taken up after the Fire of London. Don. D. Tho. Ireton de Ireton Arm.

A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 a Feather taken out of the Coffin of Robt. Braybrook Bp of Lond: who dyed of the Plague Ano. 1404 wn the body was exposed Ano. 1670. Tho: Ireton of Ireton esq Decr 76.