The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
The Scots Army 1661-1688
Secondary Title (i.e. Proceedings Title): Periodical Title: Publication Type:book Authors:Dalton, Charles Editors: Publisher:Eyre and Spottiswoode Place of Publication:Edinburgh Publication Date:1909 Alternate Date (i.e. Conference Date): Volume: Issue: Start Page: End Page: Abstract: Descriptors/Keywords: ISBN: URL:Documents in Print Item: No Documents Listed in Print Item Attached People: Subject of/in a document - Graham, James (1612-1650)
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Bibliographic Source(s): Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of..., page: 431, notes: Thoresby writes: "But the most noted of all the Humane Curiosities, is the Hand and Arm cut off at the Elbow, positively asserted to be that of the Celebrated Marquiss of Montrose, whose Quarters were disposed of to several Cities of Scotland, whence this was brought. It hath never been interred, has a severe Wound in the Wrist, and seems really to have been the very Hand that wrote the famous Epitaph [Great, Good, and Just,] for K. Charles 1st. in whose Cause he suffered. Dr. Pickering would not part with it till the Descent into Spain; when dreading it should be lost in his Absence, he presented it to this Repository, where it has more than once had the same Honour that is paid to the greatest Ecclesiastical Prince in the World."
Items Which List This As A Bibliographic Source: Notice of a Human Hand and Forearm, Pier..., page: iv, notes: Cites this as a source
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Annotation:On the relics of the 1st Marquis of Montrose, as cited in Thoresby:
These relics were owned by Mr. J. W. Morkill of Newfield Hall, Bell Busk, Yorkshire, who permitted Dalton to reproduce the plate of Montrose's forearm and hand along with Marquis's sword showing the shield with the arms of Montrose. The Marquis's scattered limbs were interred in St. Giles's Church on 14th May, 1661 (iv). Morkill contributed a paper on this The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1896 (op. cit.).
Montrose's arm was preserved by a Mr. John Graham, a landowner in Hemingbrough parish.
In Mercurius Publicus, 16th-23rd May 1661 “It is recorded in the History of Hemingbrough, that one of the withered arms of the gallant Montrose which had been exhibited in 1650, over the gate of Perth, or Stirling, but had probably been stolen, was circa 1748, in the possession of Mr. John Graham, a landowner in Hemingborough Parish. P. 206” (n. 1, p.5).
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