Background
Bland was the daughter and heiress of Robert Fisher, of Long Acre, and was born about the time of the Restoration.
Bland was the daughter and heiress of Robert Fisher, of Long Acre, and was born about the time of the Restoration.
lieutenant appears from Ralph Thoresby"s "Ducatus Leodiensis" that Mistress Bland was alive in 1712. She is known only by a phylactery in Hebrew written at Thoresby"s request for his "Musæum Thoresbianum," to which she also presented a "Turkish Commission." Doctor Nathaniel Grew describes the phylactery as a scroll of parchment ¼in. broad and 15 in.