Robert Burscough 1650/1-1709
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Robert Burscough 1650/1-1709
Biographical Note
Prebendary of Exeter, rector of Cheriton Bishop, Devon.
Books
Bequeathed several hundred volumes to Exeter Cathedral Library. His collection of manuscripts was purchased for the Harleian Library in 1715. Listed in Edward Bernard's Catalogi manuscriptorum, 1697, as owning 111 manuscripts.
Sources
- Thomas, P. Medicine and science at Exeter Cathedral Library, Exeter, 2003.
- Vallance, Edward. "Burscough, Robert (1650/51–1709), Church of England clergyman." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Wright, C. E. and R. (eds), The diary of Humfrey Wanley. London, 1966, v.i p.2, 11.