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

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Sir Walter Raleigh (1554 - 1618)

Courtier, author, explorer, and colonizer Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23039?docPos=1 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh Relevant locations: Founder or Creator of Roanoke Colony
Relationships: Carew Raleigh (1605-1666) was a son of Sir Walter Raleigh
Linked print sources: as Agent - source of object - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 2. American Cod-Barbell, Cat. 544. I am told they call this in Carolina a Cat-fish. This and the last were figured from Paintings supposed to be done in the Voyage made by Sir Walter Rawleigh to America.
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.