Extract, 'A mer-man' by [Raphael Holinshed]
Reference number: CLP/13/6
Date: c17th century
Description
Extract copy from 'Holinshed's Chronicles' vol 2, fol 168, published in 1577 a multiple-volume chronicle of British history. The extract describes a sighting of a merman in Suffolk [England] by fishermen who caught a fish resembling a 'wild man'. The merman was balding, with a beard and hairy chest, he did not speak, and he ate fish raw. He eventually escaped back into the sea and was never seen again.
Subject: Mythology / Folklore
- Reference number
- CLP/13/6
- Earliest possible date
- c17th century
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Extract, 'A mer-man' by [Raphael Holinshed], c17th century, CLP/13/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_13_6/extract-a-mer-man-by-raphael-holinshed, accessed on 14 July 2025
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