The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
James Winter, of Berwick ( - )
"Surgeon to a Man of War for Turkey." Donator of object(s)Relevant locations: Residence at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland
Workplace or place of business Turkey, Asia
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:
loOracle, Diana's Tomb,
&c. which may keep me in Countenance
for reciting what follows. A
the River
Jonah's Rock, of which
Gordon
Georg. Gram. p. 269.)
doubtful whether the ruinous old Monument, known by that Name,
was erected upon that Occasion; yet it is highly probable, that this
ScanderoonBay
Delivery, it being the nearest to
was brought from thence, and given me by
Surgeon to a Man of War for
self broke off
Pillar of Salt
that is shewed to Travellers, as that into which
verted from amongst the Collections of
Sarah Speering
may be added a
Spots of her
Blood, but should have been placed (if not mislaid) as
Snakesamongst the natural Stones.