| Description | Pen and ink drawings of various subjects, including Eskimo or Inuit people [Indigenous Canadians] on f10r. , "A boke of drawing of the shapes and formes of divers beasts, foules, birds, fishes, monsters, serpents, trees, herbes, plantes, and flowers, with diverse accidents of antiquities, and armoury, drawn by me William Burch, alias Ellis, alias Vicar of the King's Bench in Southwark, this XXth Aug. 1590, anno XXXIImo Elizabethe Regine wch booke pertenes to John Nettleton gent being Master to the sayd Wm. Burch". Rebound 1873.
Note on 98v that Burch ran away from his master Nettleton in Jul 1591. At end, poems by Sir George Rippley Channon of Bridlington, Yorkshire, and by Sir Edward Kelley, alchemist. |