The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Edv Morris ( - )
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:
Walter Raleigh
Case for the Glass wherein it was preserved, which
was surrounded
with small Wax Candles of various Colours. This is of gilded Lea
ther,
like a Muff Case, above half a Foot broad, and 13 Inches high,
and hath Cases for
sixteen Pipes within it. Don. Edv.
Morris
Rectoris Isur. Brigant. Rich. Greenfield
Virginia, An.
Pipes for their Health.
Francis Drake
Year after, and Pipes were made after the same Fashion. The oldest
Pipes have very small Heads.
Ell long, and a Clay Head, which they lay upon the Ground, hold
ing the other End in their Mouths.
Leather
key
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.
Jun. Merc.
Leod.
Yard in Length.
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 joint
ed Tobacco-Pipes
ed Tobacco-Pipes
RedClay, six Inches long be
sides the Head, which is two.
Blewor
Blackof bet
ter Workmanship.
Green,
darkcoloured, part
painted Red.
are only for Ornament) surrounded with very fine
Twig-work, but the
Head very rude.
, a Yard and half inIndian Reed
Length, bored to smoak in. Don. D.
folded up in a Leaf to smoak without a Pipe.
from the Coast of
of white Clay.
Steel
(Don. D.
) is above a Yard long, and very curiousTho. Thomson Ebor.
Mugs.
Wheels.
zilian
per Head capable only to receive the End of Rolled Tobacco. Don.
D.
Pin to pass the Bole. Don. D.
.Jac. Coats Lond
Roman Lamp that I bought at
;London
what maimed, but of finer Workmanship, that was dug up at
,Yorke
upon the Bottom is FVGARI. VV.
,Præfericulum
given me by
Woodward
Station last mentioned, which even in the thinnest Part (of which
here is also a Specimen) is an Inch thick, but the Handles are half a
Foot or seven Inches round; one of these, though of the coarsest
Clay, hath had an Inscription, of which only the three last Letters
OMS remain.
tificer's Name, in rais'd Letters impress'd with a Stamp at the Bottom
of the
Patera, or other Vessel used at their Sacrifices or solemn Festi
vals; for I think these, which are of very curious Workmanship,
were rarely used as Sepulchral Urns.
these is the Lion catching at his Prey; upon another the Statue of
, with the Lions Skin cast over his Left Arm.Hercules
DOVIICCVS.
.Yorke
Galatum, sent me by the
Bishop of
Carlisle
, byChester
Henry
PrescotEsq
Prescot
andAldbrough
, by theRibchester
Morris
and
Hargreaves
in this NeighBurgdunum
Roger GaleEsq
byTrent
;Littleborow
;Sir Godfrey
Copley
Copley
present Fabrick of
Paul
, whereupon is a humane StatueLondon
very well designed with a
Præfericulum, or other Sacrificing Vessel, in
his Right Hand: These are all very curiously wrought in Bass-Relieve,
and were made in Molds, of which I saw one in the Learned and In
genious Dr.
atWoodward's
Musæum
Gresham-College
of the dark coloured Clay, with a Heart upon it;
a
Capricorn.