The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Ralph Dutton (1601 - 1646)

Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/72340/75378?docPos=7 Relationships: Ralph Dutton (c. 1645-1720/21) was a son of Ralph Dutton
Linked print sources: as - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
as - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
as - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Of Shells amassed together into great Stones by a petrified Cement, and of the Places where they are found beyond Sea, see a learned and pious Author (r)(r) Ray's Trav. p. 117.. Of such as are found in England, most of these that follow were the Present of the Learned Dr. Woodward. A Mass of Stone with Shells in it, from King's-Weston Com. Gloc. Another different; a third from the Lady Guise's at Greatworth Com. Northampt. And another from Crick in the same County. One from Sir Ra. Dutton's Park at Sherburn. Another from Portland; and one most curious from Purfleet in Essex, wherein are great Variety of perfect Shells, of different Forms and Colours, very beautiful. Another with Fragments of Entrochi in it. And one (sent me by Tho. Sanders Esq; from Staffordshire, with many Cavities; in one of which is the resemblance of a Pair of winding Stairs. The Impressions also of Shells upon Clay, from Cumberland; upon Stone, from Dudley Com. Staff. and upon Coal (which I could never find but once) from the Pits near this Town, and one upon a Flint very curious.