Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Marrowe, George

by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford

MARROWE, GEORGE (fl. 1437), alchemist, was an Augustinian canon at Nostell, Yorkshire, and is said to have written in English a treatise on the philosopher's stone, of which a copy is preserved at the Bodleian Library, in MS. Ashmole, 1406, p. iv: 'The trewe coppie of an auncyent boke written on parchement by George Marrowe, monk of Nostall Abbey in York sheire, anno D'ni 1437,'

[Tanner's Bibl. Brit.-Hib. p. 512; Black's Cat. of Ashmolean MSS.]

C. L. K.