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Samuel Threapland, Dr. (1647 - 16 Apr 1707)

Physician. He graduated Peterhouse, Cambridge, with A.M. in 1673 and M.D. in 1682. Buried at Wibsey. (Memorandum Book of Sir Walter Claverley in Yorkshire Diaries (1886), 78 n37). Other Links: rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/15/167-178/961.full.pdf+html - "An Abstract of a Letter from Dr Sam. Threapland of Hallifax to Dr Plot of Oxford, Giving an Account of Stones Voided by Siege," Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 15, pp. 961-962. emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/person/63c1253e-20c0-4cad-a76d-c02279998182 - Early Modern Letters Online. A letter Feb 1684: Threapland, Samuel, 1647-1707 (Halifax, West Yorkshire, England) to Lister, Martin, 1639-1712. Visitor
 Relevant locations: Residence at Halifax, West Yorkshire
 Relationships: Samuel Threapland was a donor to Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)
Samuel Threapland was a visitor to the collection of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

 Linked manuscript items: as Mentioned or referenced by - "[Guest Book to Thoresby's Museum]," Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27, Leeds
as Sender of a letter - "[Letter from Samuel Threapland to Ralph Thoresby]," Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS14, Leeds
 Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - An Abstract of a Letter from Dr Sam. Threapland of Hallifax to Dr Plot of Oxford, giving an account of Stones Voided by Siege.
as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
as Mentions or references - Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries [second volume].
 Linked items in print sources: as Subject of/in a document - Memorandum Book of Sir Walter Claverley, Bart..
 Linked Objects: Collector (minor) - voided stone
Collector (minor) - voided stone
 References in Documents:
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669) An Abstract of a Letter from Dr Sam. Threapland of Hallifax to Dr Plot of Oxford, giving an account of Stones Voided by Siege.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

THEThe Leg of a Web-footed anonimous Palmipede. The Coulter-Neb, or Puffin. Clusius's Anas Arctica, a Sea-Fowl, yet found alive upon the Moors near Hallifax, and sent me thence by Dr. Threapland. The Bones of the Heads of two very different Birds, the sharp pointed, and the broad-beak'd. The Wing-bone of the Elk or wild Swan. The Leg of a Stork. The Foot of a Soland Goose from Scotland; they breed in no Place about Britain, but the Basse Island in Edinburgh Frith. The Coot or Fulica of Kin to the Water-Hen, shot upon the River Are at Leedes. Don. D. Gul. Cookson Merc.

Ralph Thoresby's guestbook of visitors to his museum (Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27)
Miramur ueteres, sed nostris utimur annis[*] Adaptation of Ovid, Fasti, Book I, Line 225: "We marvel at the past, but use the present years." Ovid uses Laudamus (We praise) instead of Miramur 28 Aprill 1703 Sam:Samuel Threapland of or near Halifax Physician