The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
George Sorocold (1668 - 1738 (?))
A specialist in hydrological engineer who worked in various locations around England, including Leeds. See F. Williamson and W. B. Crump, "Sorocold's waterworks at Leeds," Thoresby Miscellanea 11/2 (1941): 166–82. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47971?docPos=1 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sorocold Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...References in Documents:
English Lady's Hat; it is of black Velvet, the Brim but 3 ½ Inches
broad, and the Crown four
high, like a fluted Pillar of Thirty two
Wreaths or Rolls.Straw
Hat about two Yards and a half in Cir
cumference. Don. D. Cloth Hat almost
of the same Di
mensions. Don. Jac.
Coningham
Proto-Quaker called Skimming Dish Hats,
and bore his Testimony
against them; and to confess the Truth, they are almost as Novel
as
his Religion, Brimes being a modern Invention since round flat Caps
were disused. Caster as remarkably little, being but 3 ½ Inches in
the
Breadth of the Brim, and three in the Height of the Crown:Band of
Gold and green Ribband.&c.
Sea-weed, worn when a proud Humour comes upon them. Don. D Vertebræ of Snakes.
Don. D.
Steel Saw, as small as a Needle.
the Lead Pipes, by which the River Water is conveyed through the
several Streets at
Don. D. Brass Lamp from
Arm.
a
Vertebrae
of
given me byEnglish Snakes
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