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Robert BURSCOUGH 1650/1-1709

Biographical Note

Born at Cartmel, Lancashire, son of Thomas Burscough. BA Queen's College, Oxford 1672, MA 1682. Vicar of Totnes, Devon 1681, prebendary of Exeter 1701, archdeacon of Barnsaple 1703, rector of Cheriton Bishop, Devon 1705. He published a number of doctrinal works.

Books

Burscough bequeathed several hundred volumes to Exeter Cathedral Library. His collection of manuscripts was purchased for the Harleian Library in 1715; he was 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.

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-Burscough [[bequest::bequeathed]] several hundred volumes to [[beneficiary::Exeter Cathedral Library]].  His collection of [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]] was purchased for [[subsequent owner::the Harleian Library]] in 1715; he was listed in [[crossreference::Edward Bernard]]'s [[book title::''Catalogi manuscriptorum'']], [[date of publication::1697]], as owning 111 [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]].
+Burscough [[bequest::bequeathed]] several hundred volumes to [[beneficiary::Exeter Cathedral Library]].  His collection of [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]] was purchased for [[subsequent owner::the Harleian Library]] in 1715; he was listed in [[crossreference::Edward Bernard 1638-1697|Edward Bernard]]'s [[book title::''Catalogi manuscriptorum'']], [[date of publication::1697]], as owning 111 [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]].
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