Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – January 16, 1710
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Date: January 16, 1710 Author: Richard Middleton Massey Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: ff. 229-230
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Curiosity Reports, Library, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Crowland Abbey, History, Manuscripts, Museums, Poetry, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford
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January 16, 1710
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Wisbech
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Mr Cooper Jacob Bobart
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Massey sends his ‘old woman’. If this does not please Sloane he can send her to the ‘Museum at Oxford’. Massey purchased a ‘Quarto vellum MS’ about ‘the British Kings’ and a manuscript collection of ‘old Monkish Poetry’. He came across a collection of ’20 MS of a famous Physitian’ named ‘Francius a German he was president of Peterhouse in Cambridge’. Richard Middleton Massey (1678-1743) attended Brasenose College, Oxford but left before obtaining a degree. In 1706 he was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and settled in Wisbech where he practiced medicine. Massey was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. He compiled the catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Physicians in 1727 (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2969).
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