Willoughby the ornithologist, a most unexceptionable testimony, says that he saw this specimen in tradescant's museum: it is mentioned also by others;-as by Llhwyd in 1684, and by Hyde in 1700. It passed, with the rest of the tradescant Collection, to Oxford, and thus became part of the Ashmolean Museum,-and being in a decayed condition, was ordered to be destroyed by the authorities, who had no apprehension of its value, in 1755. The skull and one foot, however, were preserved, and are still in the Museum at Oxford.
"The Romance of Natural History, Second Series"
Philip Henry Gosse
Ashmole was a rich and greedy neighbour, and though tradescant left his museum to his widow and after her death to Oxford, he, the polite Ashmole, bullied Mrs. tradescant until she signed a paper stating that she had begged him to take the museum for his own.
"Highways and Byways in Surrey"
Eric Parker
The other was sent me by my especiall good friend John tradescant, who brought it among other dainty plants from beyond the seas, and imparted thereof a root to me.
"The Old English Herbals"
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
