The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
William Turner (1652 - 1701)
Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Turner,_William_%281653-1701%29_%28DNB00%29 Other Links: emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/person/56d7da89-733c-4d30-a92a-e9bed584342f - Early Modern Letters Online www.oldandsold.com/articles31n/herbals-17.shtml - Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source)Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - A compleat history of the most remarkable providences both of judgment and mercy, which have hapned in this present age extracted from the best writers, the author's own observations, and the numerous relations sent him from divers parts of the three kingdoms : to which is added, whatever is curious in the works of nature and art / the whole digested into one volume, under proper heads, being a work set on foot thirty years ago, by the Reverend Mr. Pool, author of the Synopsis criticorum ; and since undertaken and finish'd, by William Turner.
References in Documents:
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make a most excellent Oil to be used in the Gout, and b)
out of
and
other Cases: Not inferior to that Oleum Comagenum, so
much celebrated by
b) The young
Goslins are by
them also accounted
a great Dainty. (c)c)
Orn.
b)
Bœthius
quoted by
quoted by
Gesner
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1. Statue of Jupiter Ammon, pag. 556.
2. Vesta.
3. Neptune, p. 487.
4. An Altar, p. 556.
5. A Roman Brick, p. 562.
6. Another, p. 563.
7. A Roman Key, p. 558.
8. A Fibula, p. 557.
9. Cuneus, p. 563.
10. Catapulta, p. 565.
11. Geat Ring or Bracelet, p. 558.
12. A Sepulchral Urn containing near a Gallon, p. 560.
14. A small one, full of the Ashes of a Child.
15. A small red Urn.
16. One of blue.
17. Another of different Form.
18. One of those commonly called Lacrimatory's, p. 565.
19. One of white Clay.
20. A red Pottle containing half a Congius, p. 560.
21. Part of a Vessel that seems to have been a Patera.
22. One of the Parts of a Roman Aquæduct, p. 564.
23. A Bead of Earth curiously wrought, p. 563.
24. Another of blue Glass with white Snakes, of that Sort call'd Adder-beads or Druid Amulets, p. 493.
25. Another curiously undulated with white, red, and dark blue.
26. The Figure and Bigness of the Head of a British Arrow,
p.
493, and 565.
27. The like of a Dart, p. 565, both of Flint.
28 and 29. The Head of a Marble Mallet, p. 565.
30. A brazen Lance, p. 566.
31. A Shield, with Brass Studs, p. 564.
32. Kendall's Medal.
Of the Roman Triumph, and the History of Adonis in the preceding
Plate, see Page 556.
My Friend Jonathan PriestleyTurner Hi,
furnishes us with a later Instance, and a Native of
story of ProvidencesEngland, Jeremiah Street (a May 22. 1703
was shew'd publicly at
could, saith he (who is himself a proper Person), stand under his
Arm-hole, and above an Inch to spare, and with my Hand could
just reach the top of his Head.
He was seven Foot and five Inches
high, but corpulent and unhealthy, and falling sick at
was
From the manuscript Collection of my old friend Mr.
than Priestley
Sagar
to Church.