as Saxon. He also describes a double sunset viewable from Leek, the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance. and, for the first time, the Polish swan, a pale morph of the mute swan. Later life and death In 1687, Plot was made a notary public by the Archbishop of Canterbury as well as appointed the registrar to the Norfolk Court of Chivalry. Plot resigned from his posts at Oxford in 1690, thereafter marrying Rebecca Burman of London and retiring to his property of Sutton Barne in his hometown of Borden, where he worked on The Natural History of Middlesex and Kent but never completed. The office of Mowbray Herald Extraordinary was created in January 1695 for Plot, who was made registrar of the College of Heralds just two days later. Although able to go on an archaeological tour of Anglia in September 1695, Plot was greatly suffering from urinary calculi (kidney stones), and succumbed to his illness on 30 April 1696 aged 55. He was buried at Borden Church, where a plaque memorialises him. References Additional resources The Correspondence of Robert Plot in EMLO Robert Plot from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford External links Plot, Robert (1676) The natural history of Oxford-shire – digital facsimile from the Linda Hall Library 1640 births 1696 deaths People from Sittingbourne Alumni of Magdalen Hall, Oxford Alumni of University College, Oxford English alchemists English naturalists English chemists English curators Fellows of the Royal Society People associated with the Ashmolean Museum English officers of arms 17th-century alchemists Alumni of Wye College