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Letter from Richard Brooke

Reference code
SAL/01/02/41/38
Title
Letter from Richard Brooke
Date
November 1849
Level of description
item
Scope and content
Letter in response to a point made in ‘The Annals of the Stage’, by Mr. John Payne Collier, in relation to the office of ‘Keeper of Bears and Apes’ in the reign of Edward IV.

Mentioned in the minutes for 29 November 1849: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.040.026

A digital copy of this paper is available through the internet archive, although this does not contain any reference to keeper of the bears and apes. It was published in 1879 so may have been redrafted: https://archive.org/details/historyofenglish02colluoft/page/n3/mode/2up
Creator
Brooke, Richard (1791-1861), antiquary