The well-connected antiquary John Aubrey noted in his Brief Lives concerning Bacon, " He was a Pederast.

Jean Mabillon, a French Benedictine monk, scholar and antiquary, whose work De re diplomatica was published in 1681, is widely regarded as the founder of the twin disciplines of palaeography and diplomatics.

The unseen and unheard Song of Roland had become a dim memory, until the antiquary Francisque Michel transcribed a worn copy in the Bodleian Library and put it into print in 1837 ; it was timely: French interest in the national epic revived among the Romantic generation.

The antiquary John Leland ( 1506 – 1552 ) as well as John Bale believed him to be Welsh, but most modern scholars, beginning with G. L. Kittredge in 1894, assume that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire, who was a knight, land-owner and Member of Parliament .< ref > Riddy, Felicity </ Ref >.

The addition of spices such as cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg was, according to the English antiquary John Timbs, " in token of the offerings of the Eastern Magi.

It suffered from the absence of any figure comparable to Fell, and its history was marked by ineffectual or fractious individuals such as the Architypographus and antiquary Thomas Hearne, and the flawed project of Baskett's first bible, a gorgeously designed volume strewn with misprints, and known as the Vinegar Bible after a glaring typographical error in St. Luke.

But at the entry to the sanctuary, which has been thoroughly excavated, the Roman antiquary Varro learned that there had been twin pillars of brass, phallic hermae, and that in the sanctuary it was understood that the child of the Goddess, Cadmilus, was in some mystic sense also her consort.

This copy was made in 1722 by James Hill, an antiquary who had been employed by Francis Wise to examine the manuscript.

It was owned by John Leland, the antiquary, in the 1540s.

Charles Townley ( 1 October 1737 – 3 January 1805 ) was an English country gentleman, antiquary and collector of the Townley Marbles ( or Towneley Marbles ).

William Forbes Skene ( 7 June 1809 – 29 August 1892 ), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, James Skene ( 1775 – 1864 ), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen.

1503 – 18 April 1552 ), was an English poet and antiquary.

In humanist fashion, Leland styled himself antiquarius, a title which was at one time interpreted as referring to a formal appointment as ' king's antiquary ': however, it is now understood to have been merely Leland's own preferred way of describing himself.

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, a clear distinction was perceived to exist between the interests and activities of the antiquary and the historian.

The antiquary was concerned with the relics of the past ( whether documents, artefacts or monuments ), whereas the historian was concerned with the narrative of the past, and its political or moral lessons for the present.

The antiquary was satirised in John Earle's Micro-cosmographie of 1628 (" Hee is one that hath that unnaturall disease to bee enamour'd of old age, and wrinkles, and loves all things ( as Dutchmen doe Cheese ) the better for being mouldy and worme-eaten "), in Jean-Siméon Chardin's painting " Le Singe Antiquaire " ( c. 1726 ), in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Antiquary ( 1816 ), in the caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson, and in many other places.

The house was owned by the Cheshire antiquary Raymond Richards until his death in 1978.

Daines Barrington, FRS, FSA ( 1727 / 8 – 14 March 1800 ) was an English lawyer, antiquary and naturalist.

He was born at Lindley, Leicestershire, Robert Burton was the son of Ralph Burton and the brother of William Burton the antiquary.

Thomas Hearne or Hearn ( July 1678 – 10 June 1735 ), English antiquary, was born at Littlefield Green in the parish of White Waltham, Berkshire.

When antiquary John Leland visited the castle some time between 1535 and 1543, he noted that:

Sir Henry Spelman ( born Congham, Norfolk c. 1562 and died 1641 ) was an English antiquary, noted for his detailed collections of medieval records, in particular of church councils.

Rumour noted later by the curious antiquary John Aubrey had it that she was the " concubine " of Richard Sackville, Earl of Dorset ( died 1624 ), who had children by her and settled upon her an annuity of £ 500 per annum.

His fourth son, Edward was a noted lawyer and antiquary.

Edmé Bouchardon ( 29 May 1698 – 27 July 1762 ) was a French sculptor, esteemed in his day as the greatest sculptor of his time < ref > The noted antiquary and connoisseur, the comte de Caylus, who had followed Bouchardon's career closely since 1733 and hailed him as a modern Phidias, wrote a Vie d ' Edmé Bouchardon, ( Paris, 1763 ) that has been reprinted in Geneva 1973 ; Voltaire wrote to Caylus in 1740, '" Il me semble que vous méritiez de naître dans un plus beau siècle.

The antiquary, John Huntbach, noted that the Battle of Tettenhall / Wednesfield was likely fought in the vicinity of Low Hill, quoting the names of several lows in the vicinity-the North Lowe, the South Lowe, Horslowe ( in the area of Horseley Fields-where the name comes from ), Little Lowe, Tromelow ( the more recent local name ' Rumbelows ' comes from this ), and so on.

Robert Gordon of Straloch ( 14 September 1580 – 18 August 1661 ) was a Scottish cartographer, noted as a poet, mathematician, antiquary, and geographer, and for his collection of music for the lute.

* Sir Simon Degge, an antiquary, well known for his manuscript notes on Plot's Natural History of Staffordshire.

George Vertue ( 1684 – July 24, 1756 ) was an English engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period.

Reprints of the first edition, intended for practical use rather than antiquary interest, were published until the 1870s in England and Wales, and a working version by Henry John Stephen, first published in 1841, was reprinted until after the Second World War.

Reprints of the first edition, intended for practical use rather than antiquary interest, were published until the 1870s in England and Wales, and a working version by Henry John Stephen, first published in 1841, was reprinted until after the Second World War.

This criticism touched a patriotic nerve with the antiquary John Leland, who responded first in an unpublished tract, written perhaps in 1536, the Codrus sive Laus et Defensio Gallofridi Arturii contra Polydorum Vergilium (" Codrus ", a reference to Vergil, was a type-name drawn from Juvenal for an offensive hack-poet ); and then in a longer published treatment, the Assertio inclytissimi Arturii regis Britannia ( 1544 ).

Ashmole was an antiquary with a strong Baconian bent for the study of nature.

By the time the antiquary John Stow wrote his Survey, the Tabard was one among a crowd of inns that lined the thoroughfare that led south from London Bridge towards Canterbury and Dover, " many fair inns, for receipt of travellers, by these signs: the Spurre, Christopher, Bull, Queen's Head, Tabard, George, Hart, King's Head " & c. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries " the Tabard of the Monastery of Hyde, and the Abbot's Place, with the stable and gardens thereunto belonging " were sold to John and Thomas Master.

Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes ( 10 September 1788 – 5 August 1868 ), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes, was a French archaeologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley.

He was for many years manager of the extensive paper manufactory of John Dickinson ( 1782 – 1869 ) at Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, but was distinguished especially as an antiquary and numismatist, that is, a collector of ancient objects and coins.

: See Francis Drake ( antiquary ) for the 1736 publication.

The antiquary John Aubrey remembered it as " a delicate Lodge in the park, of Brick, not big, but very convenient for its bignes,

The antiquary and engraver George Vertue was a figure in the London art scene for most of the period, and his copious notebooks were adapted and published in the 1760s by Horace Walpole as Some Anecdotes of Painting in England, which remains a principal source for the period.

His most important works were the large fold-out folio illustrations for Britannia Illustrata, 1708 ; for the 65 folio plates he engraved for the antiquary Sir Robert Atkyns ' The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire, 1712 ( 1st edition ), and for Le Nouveau Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne ou description exacte des palais de la Reine, et des Maisons les plus considerables des des Seigneurs & des Gentilshommes de la Grande Bretagne, 1715, an extended reprint in collaboration with other artists.

During this period O ' Curry was establishing a reputation for his knowledge of the Irish language and Irish history, and, by 1834, was in correspondence with the antiquary John O ' Donovan.

Gérard de Nerval, in a fictional letter published as part of his Angélique ( 1850 ), tells of an antiquary who fears for the safety of the valuable first printed edition of Perceforest at the hands of a rioting mob, using Perceforest to suggest the antiquary's arcane concerns.

But with a Scottish accent it no doubt derives from something much closer to home ( assuming it is not just the romantic invention of a Victorian antiquary ); ' dogon ' is a Scots term for a worthless person, a villain and this could by association have been one of the sanctuary stones associated with the church.

Thoms was an antiquary, and miscellaneous writer, for many years a clerk in the secretary's office of Chelsea Hospital.