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[Reference to a skeleton in the Anatomy School collection.]

Bodley 869 (to be determined)

Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford

Subject of/in a documentOxford Anatomy School (-) Subject of/in a documentThomas Trapham (-c. 29 Dec 1683) Annotation:"A skeleton in the School that was the subject of a lecture on Dec. 3, 1632 [that] was probably the predecessor of the one prepared by Thomas Trapham in 1634" (Gunther 3: 253). Trappam prepared one of the skeletons on public display at the Anatomy School: "MS. Bodley 869 (2754) is inscribed 'cx dono T. Trapham, chirurgi licenciati Oxon: qui etiam sceleton publicum paravit in usum Academiae anno Domini 1634'. 'Trappam of Abendon, chirurgian, who sewed on the old king's head when he was beheaded and said "he had sewed on the goose's head", was buried at St. Elen's churchyard at Abendon under one of the windowes [on ag Dec. 1683]. Trappam was chirurgian to Oliver Cromwell at Worcester fight.' Wood, Life." (Gunther vol, 3, p. 253)