The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
John Gascoigne ( - )
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...References in Documents:
Terra Sigillata with
d)
d)
p. 9
only this is marked upon both Sides, that but upon one.
Terra
Lemnia, the red
Lemnia
Lemnos,
lour the Fingers.
, first brought toArmenian Bole
Time, when the Plague raged.
, both red and brown,Terra Japonica
and dark-coloured. Don. D.
Jo. Hunter .
Terra Fabrilis Rubrica,
Ru
brickor
brick
, very good fromRuddle
my honoured Friend
Robert MolesworthEsq
, but so gritty that I suspect it is not that fromOchre
which is accounted the best in the World (
e)
e)
Nat. Hist.
p. 55
Plot
seth may in Process of Time be converted from yellow
toOchre
Ru
dlefirst, and after to
dle
Black Chalk, by a certain Transmutation so much
spoken of by Naturalists.
, of which here are theChalks
Redand the
Blackboth used in Draw
ing.
Terra Saponaria,
FullersEarth from
led
Walker Earth, for the Reason before-mentioned,
pag. 82
that burns white and clear, fromTo
bacco-Pipe-Clay
bacco-Pipe-Clay
rish, of which see
Page196
Clays,Argilla ;
Merret
f)
f)
pag. 219
besides the White, mentions also the Ash-colour, Blew, Yellow and
Red.
, full ofArgil
Micaor
Cat-Silver, I found a
great Quantity near the Coal-Mines of
John GascoigneEsq
making a vast Drain betwixt
the same Depth,
viz. 12 Foot, that for the same Reason that
is calledFossil-
Wood
Wood
, may be concluded anNoah 's-Ark
Antedeluvian Nut
whiteSand from
Stemma Regalis Augustissimi Monarchæ Jacobi Magn. Brit. Fran.
& Hib. . it is curiously delineated upon Parchment from
Regis, &c
,Malcolme
and
Margaret
Henry
ArmJo. Boulter
gree of
Brooke
.Cobham
take of
granted toSkyrake
Hen. 8.
An.
John
GascoigneEsq
Gascoigne
&c. Commissioners. Don. D.
third
Ja. I.
Tho. Fairfax
Hen. GoodrickeKnts.
Mayors of
(and short Historical Notes) fromYorke
all upon Parchment.