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El Aldburgh de Aldburgh ( - )

Relationships: Eliz Aldburgh (-1722) was a same person as? (uncertain) El Aldburgh de Aldburgh
Linked print sources: 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)

A Fragment of the Royal-Oak at Boscobell, where King Charles II. was miraculously preserved. Don. Rev. Geo. Plaxton Rect. Ber. (formerly of Donington, in which Parish it stands.) And of the Holy Thorn at Glastenbury. Don. D. Sam. Gale Lond. Elm curiously grained, as fine as Walnut for inlaid Cabinets from Bede's Sylva Elmetæ in this Neighbourhood. Lignum fossile, or Pitwood of different Colours, great Quantities are dug up in the Levels in Yorkeshire and Lancashire. Some also from the Mosses upon Blackmoor in this Parish. Nuts also, dug up with Wood in the Isle of Wight. Don. D. S. Maddox. Fir-cones, Burnt Wood, and Hasel-Nuts, from the Mosses in Cheshire. Don. D. Jo. Woodward M D. P M G. A twisted Branch either natural or rather made so, by some convolvulous Plant. Don. Sam. Molineux Arm. The Figures of Plants upon Stone or Coal, are more frequently found; but here is the real Plant it self taken out of a Lime stone Rock at Downham in Craven; and given me by Dr. Hargrave of Coln. A Holly Leaf, whereof the Skin, and parenchymous or pulpy Part, being either rotted, or eaten away by Insects, the Texture of the Leaf appears admirably fine, the surrounding Fibre being very strong in this Plant contributes much to the Fairness. It was therefore the more suprizing, when I found the like delicate Skeleton of one of the tenderer Plants, which is very curious. A Slice of Wood full of small Holes, visible to the naked Eye, and so close to each other, that it is surprising how it hangs together, the woody Remains being as small as Lines drawn with a Pen, like the Limphæ ducts and Air Vessels, as drawn in Dr. Grew's Anatomy of Plants. Don. D. El. Aldburgh de Aldburgh.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A Penitentiary Discipline from Vigo, An. 1702. It is of Hair with Knots six or eight Inches distant from each other. Don. D. Jo. Cookson Lond. Incence from the same Place. Don. D. E. Aldburgh. A Picture of God the Father, as an old Man in the Clouds, with Justinian Patriarch of Venice, and other Saints below, brought me from Spain by the Reverend Mr. Chr. Wilkinson. The Invention and Exaltation of the Cross, curiously represented in various Figures in Silver upon transparent Horn; upon a Cross surrounded with Cherubs is Hallelujah in large Capitals; upon each of which are Inscriptions in lesser Letters, as Crux æterna Dei, &c. Upon the Head of the Cross Benedictum Lignum.