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See also:ROBERT See also:THORNTON (1623-1678)
, See also:English See also:antiquary, belonged to an old See also:Nottinghamshire See also:family, which took its name from Thoroton, near See also:Newark
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He resided mainly at another See also:village in the same neighbourhood, See also:Car See also:Colston, where he practised as a physician and where he lived the See also:life of a See also:country See also:gentleman
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He took very little See also:part in the See also:Civil See also:War, although his sympathies were with the royalists, but as a See also:magistrate he was very active in taking proceedings against the See also:Quakers
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In 1667 Thoroton, aided by a See also:band of helpers, began. to See also:work upon his elaborate Antiquities of Nottinghamshire
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This was published in See also:London in 1677; it was dedicated to See also: See also:Godfrey, See also:Robert Tlwroton, Physician and Antiquary (189o) . |
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