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'A Letter from Mr Smart Lethieullier to Mr [Roger] Gale, relating to St. Hugh, the Burgundian Bishop of Lincoln.' Fols. 68r-70v (fol. 71r-v blank).

Reference code
SAL/10/09/18
Title
'A Letter from Mr Smart Lethieullier to Mr [Roger] Gale, relating to St. Hugh, the Burgundian Bishop of Lincoln.' Fols. 68r-70v (fol. 71r-v blank).
Date
8 November 1736
11 November 1736
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Letter dated 8 November 1736. Read 11 November 1736: Minute Book II, p. 239 (SAL/02/002/145). Also transcribed in ‘Register of Antiquitys’, pp.119-23 (SAL/10/10/018). Printed in Archaeologia, 1 (1770), 26-9.
Concerning a shrine in Lincoln cathedral, previously attributed to St Hugh [of Avallon], bishop of Lincoln, but found by Lethieullier to be that of the child Hugh [Little St Hugh of Lincoln].
Creator
Lethieullier, Smart (1701-1760), antiquary
Gale, Roger (1672-1744), scholar and antiquary