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Re-examining the contribution of Dr Robert Toope to knowledge in later seventeenth-century Britain

This chapter presents a reflection on, and assessment of, the life, career and work of the little-studied seventeenth-century physician and ‘Renaissance man’ Robert Toope. He is currently, perhaps, chiefly known for his correspondence on wide-ranging, eclectic, subjects with the likes of fellow antiquarian John Aubrey, 2 in addition to Robert Boyle. He also fell victim to later less-than-complimentary references by William Stukeley, who observed in a denigratory fashion that the people local to Avebury referred to Toope as ‘Dr Took’ (see below). Aubrey, meanwhile, was known to have spent time transcribing the spider-like, looped handwriting of Toope as part of his Templa Druidum (e.g. Burl, 41–2;