Arbroath Abbey was the basis for the description of the ruined monastery of St Ruth in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary.
The castle is reputed to be the basis for the fictional Castle of Knockwhinnock in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Antiquary.
Scott gives an account of the customs and of particular Bedesmen he knew in the introduction to The Antiquary.
Walter Scott stayed in the house in 1803 and 1809 and used it as his model for 'Monksbarns' in his novel The Antiquary (1816).
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In 1694, the Welsh poet Henry Vaughan wrote to his cousin, the antiquary John Aubrey, in response to a request for some information about the remnants of Druidry in existence in Wales at that time, saying
The Cotton Baronetcy of Conington was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for the antiquary Robert Bruce Cotton (1570-1631), who also represented five constituencies in the House of Commons.
The Cotton Baronetcy, of Conington in the County of Huntingdon, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for the antiquary Robert Cotton, who also represented five constituencies in the House of Commons.
The huge collection of letters and papers was acquired from the executors of William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth, the last representative of the family, by the antiquary Francis Blomefield in 1735.
Sir Richard Carew, 1st Baronet (c. 1580–1643), medical experimenter and educationist, son of the antiquary
In addition to Newcastle's translation of Molière, Dryden also adapted material from L'Amant Indiscrit by Philippe Quinault, from the Francion of Charles Sorel, and from The Antiquary by Shackerley Marmion.
Sir Edward Dodsworth, Commissary-General to the Parliamentary Army, Matthew Dodsworth and the antiquary Roger Dodsworth were later members of the family.
It is not known where the manuscript was between the 13th century and 1638, when it appears in a catalogue of the collection formed by the antiquary Sir Robert Cotton between about 1588 and 1629, and added to by his son and grandson.