Abraham Charles Kirkmann, lawyer and antiquary; and the rediscovery of the Bosworth stonebow at Browsholme Hall.

The wanderings of an Elizabethan stonebow are traced from its discovery at Bosworth field in the eighteenth century and originally thought to be mediaeval relic of the famous battle. It passed through the museum of Richard Greene at Lichfield, and the Liverpool Museum of William Bullock and now lies at Browsholme Hall, Lancs. Acquired by Abraham Kirkmann, a lawyer, he bequeathed it to Richard Goulbourne Parker of Browsholme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]