The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Abraham Wheelocke (1593 - 1653)
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Crosier's Staff; it is of Copper gilt and
enamel'd, in
the Form of a Serpent, the Scales of a changeable Blew, very natural,
but
so is not the Head, which being designed for Shew on both Sides,
has a Face and two Eyes
on each Side. Don. D.
a Priest's Habit, concealed at the Reformation in a
double bottom Ark
near a Chantry in
Peter
&c. deli
cately wrought in Silver and Silk of divers Colours; part of the said
Vestment fell into the Hands of one who burnt it merely for the
Silver's Sake, though she had too much before; but this, and a Ma
nuscript found with it, were preserved by
Pix, or
KirkstalAbbey
rist, or
am since told by a Person of Honour, that it was for preserving the
Relicks, which Party having been at
that was sent from the Crown of
presumed very knowing in these Matters; however it comes under
the more general Notion of
Vasa Sacra; (
Bede, p. 98.
Lamp, or
of Copper engraved in Branches, with this Inscription in old Letters,
(The S in
Ihc. Nazarenus, rex Judeorum fili Dei Miserere mei.
Anthony
Bass-Relieve, embracing and kissing
the Form of a lovely Child, sits upon his Book; (
Reflect.
p. 322.
Anthonythe Her
mit
Bell, Bookand
Pig, the Prayer to him for Cure of the
Inflammation commonly called
, may be seen in theSt. Anthony 's Fire
Horæ beatæ Mariæ, before-mentioned,
p. 84.
b.
ligious House in
Jack
son
son
Holy
Banner, with
Banner
Spes mea in Deo est;
ofCrown
Thorns,
ments of
, from the Windows of the Parish Church atCrucifixes
But what is most remarkable is a small Quarry from
(Don.
Goosein a Religious Habit is carrying the
Crosier's Staff, &c. the Procession is made up of the like Fowls: This
seems to have been made in Hatred of the Monks, whom the Secular
Clergy abhorred for encroaching upon their Rights, and being now
repossessed thereof, recriminate,
&c.
. This venerable Author will appear in his perfectVenerabilis Bede libri quinque, ecclesiastice Historie de gestis
Ang
lorum
lorum
Beauty, when the
Smith
,Durham
will be pleased to oblige the Learned World with his accurate
Edition thereof, and his own most instructive Notes thereupon.
The
Recapitulatioends at the Year
Tatwin
the Catalogue of his Works with the
Martyrology, and
'sCuthbert
Epistle (which
places in the Beginning) concludes thisWhelock
Manuscript.