Sir Francis Drake is mentioned; but, what is extremely remarkable, (though Clusius was England in 1581) neither Sir Walter Raleigh, the great Lord Bacon, or the Tradescants, father and son, (the first Englishmen I know who made professed collection) are any wise noticed by him (205). Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8022?docPos=2 Other biography: https://www-oxforddnb-com.cyber.usask.ca/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-8022?rskey=ASmzzm&result=2 Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - Exoticorum libri decem: quibus animalium, plantarum, aromatum, alioruḿque peregrinorum fructuum historiæ describuntur: item Petri Bellonii Observationes, eodem Carolo Clusio interprete. Series totius operis post praefationem indicabitur. .
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[Excerpts from Zacharias Uffenbach's diary of his visit to Oxford in 1710 in the company of his brother Johann Friedrich Uffenbach]

Mr. Crab then led us back along the cross corridor and opened the two cabinets which one finds in the first part of this cross-corridor at the outset where the contents—mostly playthings and likely to please the ignorant—are always shown. They are for the most part codices, elegantly written and painted or decorated with gold; but Mr. Crab never even mentioned what they are and probably neither knows nor can read them. Of one however he did remark: "That book is very old-more than eight hundred years." When I asked him how he knew this, he could reply nothing but: "It is certain, Dr. Grabe told me so," [i.e., the famous Joh. Ernst Grabius of Königsberg, with whom he considered himself great friends because they have similar sounding names], Thereupon he looked so desperately wise that one could not help laughing. What these codices which he said were so old really were I cannot say; for he put them back again so quickly and pointed out everything in such furious haste, that it was useless: but by their character I could see they are fairly old. Also, as I had hopes of finding them later in the catalogue and looking at them at leisure, I did not permit myself to be annoyed. Mr. Crab also showed in this cupboard such things as the following: several letters from Queen Elizabeth, Mary, James I and the like; an Alcoran, and some illuminated Chinese books. This is what is called seeing the famous, highly interesting Bibliotheca Bodleiana, about which many a man gives himself airs as a scholar on reaching home—especially when he tells what a great number of books he has seen, from the outside! Afterwards Mr. Crab led us up to the so-called gallery and showed us first a poor little room on the right, which he called "the study." It would perhaps serve as a museum for the Librarian or old Fellows in winter. In here hung some pictures, amongst which were several embroidered in silk. Mr. Crab made a great fuss over them, although I have seen many more beautiful, and even have better ones worked by my own grandmother. We were also shown a large volume with all sorts of collected engravings, amongst which were several by good artists. After this a great armchair was pointed out to us, as somethmg very special, because it is said to have been made out of the ship in which Captain Drake sailed round the world; also several Chinese staves, bow and arrows, and again a cylinder with some vile figures. The most remarkable thing was the marble, of which Monconys speaks in his travels. It is set in a frame and hangs on the wall. The lizard or squirrel formed in it is very strange and is a white vein natural to the marble which represents this animal very prettily. I know of course that deception is possible here and that Florentine marble is much helped out with corrosive acids and painting. But a blind man even though he could not see could yet feel that this is a natural vein (palpando experiri potest), whilst there is not the slightest trace that either the white or the vein have been inserted.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Nicotiana major Latifolia, Tobacco, a Branch of it, the Leaves and Stem as it grows. Don. A. Atkinson. From the West-Indies it was propagated to the East-Indies, and in all Places hath very much betwitched the Inhabitants from the more polite Europeans to the barbarous Hottentots (o)(o) Id. Nat. Hist. of Jamaica. p. 146.. It was brought into England by Sir Francis Drake, An. 1586. the Portuguese call it Herba Santa, because it is a Counter-Poison.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A small Fragment of Capt. Eliot's Canoe, wherein he made his Escape from Petty Guaves in the West-Indies, and gave the Governour of Jamaica Notice that the French were coming to surprize that Island, by which Means it was saved: He sailed sixty Leagues without Compass in three Days, and had no Sustenance for himself and two Blacks but a little raw Flesh; for which signal Service K. William gave him the Command of a Man of War. The Canoe hangs up in Greenwich Hospital. A Truncheon of Sir Francis Drake's Ship, wherewith he surrounded the World; Queen Elizabeth order'd it to be drawn up in a little Creek near Deptford, whence this was sent to my Father.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Sir Walter Raleigh's Tobacco-Box, as it is called, but is rather the Case for the Glass wherein it was preserved, which was surrounded with small Wax Candles of various Colours. This is of gilded Leather, like a Muff Case, above half a Foot broad, and 13 Inches high, and hath Cases for sixteen Pipes within it. Don. Rev. Edv. Morris, Rectoris Isur. Brigant. Sir Rich. Greenfield, upon his Discovery of Virginia, An. 1585, observed the Indians smoaked Tobacco in Clay-Pipes for their Health. Sir Francis Drake brought it into England the Year after, and Pipes were made after the same Fashion. The oldest Pipes have very small Heads. A Turkish Pipe of a hard Reed above an Ell long, and a Clay Head, which they lay upon the Ground, holding the other End in their Mouths. A Leather Pipe also from Turkey twisted about with Brass Wire; the Head is of Box Wood carved, the Tip for the Mouth of Ivory; this is longer than the other, being to wind about the Arm or Body of the Smoaker. Don. D. Tho. Pease Jun. Merc. Leod. A Venetian Pipe of four jointed Reeds, painted, a Yard in Length. Another of ten Joints, much finer painted, and longer, the Clay Head cast into an Octangular and much finer Mould Qu. If these be not the same that some Authors call the Arabian jointed Tobacco-Pipes. A Virginian Pipe of Red Clay, six Inches long besides the Head, which is two. Another of dark Blew or Black of better Workmanship. A third Green, and a 4th dark coloured, part painted Red. An Indian Pipe of three Reeds in Breadth (two of which are only for Ornament) surrounded with very fine Twig-work, but the Head very rude. A very fine slender Indian Reed, a Yard and half in Length, bored to smoak in. Don. D. Tho. Garway. Also Tobacco folded up in a Leaf to smoak without a Pipe. An odd figured Head from the Coast of Barbary. Don. Rich Cranidge. This is black; another of white Clay. A Steel Head, with Plate over it for Security. Don. Godfr. Haddon. Fine Dutch Pipes of different Sorts; of which one (Don. D. Tho. Thomson Ebor.) is above a Yard long, and very curious Workmanship. A short one, of the same Clay with the Nottingham Mugs. A Carriage of nine Pipes Heads, joined in one Bole upon Wheels. A large Head that will hold more than them all, fit for a Brazilian Priest's Offering, who blesseth the People with its Smoak. A Japan Reed curiously inlaid with Mother of Pearl, with a small Copper Head capable only to receive the End of Rolled Tobacco. Don. D. S. Molineux. A small Pipe of white Glass scarce large enough for a Pin to pass the Bole. Don. D. Jac. Coats Lond.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Allestree, Alsop, Ambrose, Ames, Angier, Annesley, Ashe, Ascham, Ashmole; Barnes, Bates, Baxter, Beaumont, Bentley, Bernard, Blackmore, Bladen, Bodley, Bolton, Bonnel, Boswel, Bowles, Boyle, Bromley, Buchanan, Burket, Busby; Calamy, Camden, Cartwright, Castel, Cave, Cawton, Chadderton, Chamberlayn, Chancy, Charlotte, Charnock, Chetwynd, Chillingworth, Clarges, Clark, Clarkson, Collings, Collier, Dodsworth, Dodwell, Doolittle, Dorrington, Drake, (Sir Francis), Dryden, Dugdale, Duport; Edwards, Ent, Evelyn, Elstob; Fairfax, Firmin, Flaherly, Flamsted, Flemming, Floyer, Fox, Frankland; Gale, Du Gard, Gascoigne, Gibson, Gilpin, Glisson, Godolphin, Goodall, Goodwin, Gouge, Gower, Gumble, Gurnall; Halley, Hammond, Hampden, Harley, Harrison, Henry, Herbert, Herne, Heywood, Hickes, Hickman, Hickeringil, Higden, Hill, Hildersham, Hobbes, Hody, Holder, Hook, Hooker, Hopkinson, Howe, Hudson, Humfreys, Hyde; Jacomb, James, Jenkins, Jenkyn, Johnson (Ben.), Johnston; Keith, Kennet, Kettlewell, King, Kirke, Knox (Capt.), Kymberley; Lambarde, Langbain, Lenthall, Le-Neve, Le-strange, Lesley, Lewys, Lightfoot, Linacre, Lister, Littleton, Lhoyd (Hum. and Edw.), Loggan, Lower; Mack-Martin, Madox, Manton, Marshall, Marsham, Marvel, Mather, Matthewes, Mead, Micklethwait, Midgeley, Mildmay, Milner, Molesworth, Molyneux, More, Morice, Morisone, Morgan, Morland, Morton, Morris, Mountague; Nalson, Nalton, Nelson, Newcome, Newcomen, Nowel (Alex. and Laur.), Nye; Ogle, Oley, Olliffe, Otteley, Owen; Pearse, Pearson, Penn, Penton, Pepys, Peters, Petiver, Petyt, Plot, Pococoke, Pool, Potter, Preston, Prideaux, Primrose, Pryor, Purcell, Pymm; Radcliffe, Ralegh (Sir Walter), Randolph, Raye, Rawdon, Rosewell, Rogers, Rule, Rushworth, Russel (Admiral), Rycaut, Rymer; Sacheverell, Sampson, Savile, Scobell, Sedgewick, Selden, Sharp, Sherburn, Sherlock, Shepard, Shovel (Sir Cloudesley), Shower, Sibbald, Sidney (Sir Phil.), Simpson, Skelton, Sloane, Smith, South, Southwell, Spragge, Spelman, Steel, Stephens, Stretton, Strype, Suckling, Sutherland, Swinburn; Talbot, Tallents, Tanner, Temple, Thursby, Thwaits, Todd, Towneley, Travers, Tuckney, Twisse, Tyndal, Tyson; Vernon, Vicars, Vincent, Vyner; Wales, Walker, Waller, Wallis, Walsingham, Wanley, Ware, Washington, Watson, Webster, Wentworth, Welwood, Wharton, Wheatley, Wheeler, Whiston, Whitacre, Whitby, Whitchcote, Whitlock, Whyte, Widdrington, Wild, Williams, Williamson, Wittie, Wolseley, Woodcock, Woodward, Worthington, Wortley, Wotton, and Wren.

Musaeum Tradescantianum (1656) A Trunion of Capt: Drake’s Ship.