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Abraham de la Pryme (15 Jan 1671 - 12/13 Jun 1704)

Minister, antiquarian, and local historian Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://oxforddnb.com/view/article/22852?docPos=2 Visitor
Relevant locations: Birth place in Hatfield, East Yorkshire
Residence at Thorn, Yorkshire
Relationships: Abraham de la Pryme was a member of Royal Society (-)
Abraham de la Pryme was a visitor to the collection of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

John Hall (-c.1722) was a friend of Abraham de la Pryme
Linked manuscript items: as Mentioned or referenced by - "[Guest Book to Thoresby's Museum]," Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27, Leeds
Linked print sources: as - IV. A letter from the Reverend Mr. Abraham de la Pryme, to the very Reverend Dr. G. D. of Y. and F. R. S. concerning some Roman Antiquities in Lincolnshire.
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 179. Miscellanies; 1. A Transcript of Leland's Itinerary for Lancashire and Yorkeshire; from a Copy taken 1658, and courteously communicated to me, An. 1696, by his Grace my Lord Archbishop of Yorke. Note, the entire Itineraries of that noted Antiquary are since most accurately printed, with curious Notes and Additions, by Mr. Hearne at Oxford, in nine Volumes. Extracts from two M.S. Folio of Mr. Chr. Towneley; lent me by Ric. Towneley Esq; with Transcripts of what relates to Kirkstal-Abbey, &c. The Inventory of the Jewels, Plate, Vestments, &c. in Yorke Minster, collated with other Copies. Compendium Compertorum per Doctorem Legh, & Doctorem Layton in visitatione Regia Domorum Religiosarum, in Comitatibus de Northfolk, Darby, Nottingham, Yorke, Durham, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancaster and Chester; from a Book lately found in the Duke of Devonshire's Library at Hardwick, which had been copied for the Use of the Earl of Shrewsbury, temp. Edw. 6. from the Original, which was destroyed in Qu. Mary's Reign: This Transcript for the County of Yorke was from a M.S. lent me by Mr. De la Pryme F.R.S.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Of the tessellated Pavements, or Dice-like Squares of Stone or Brick, wherewith the Romans used to pave the Place, where they set the Prætorium, or General's Tent, &c. Here are various Specimens of different Sizes and Colours (white, red, blue, yellow, and black) and from very distinct Places; as from the ancient Isurium (Aldbrough) from a Quarter to half an Inch Square: Also some of a larger Sort, dark coloured and red, which I took from a checquered Pavement discovered there, An. 1702, within a Stable; these are an Inch Square. I saw the by Musaic Work (in May 1703) as laid by the Romans. Some of both Sizes as sent me Mr. Midgeley of Beverley, from a Pavement lately discovered in those Parts, which hath not yet met with a Person of Curiosity enough to give the World an Account of it. Four of those from the noted Stunsfield Pavement near Oxford, concerning which the ingenious Mr. Hearne hath a learned and curious Dissertation, annexed to the 8th Vol. of Leland's Itinerary. Lapides tessellati pavimenti apud Roxby in Com. Lincolniensi, An. Dom. 1699 reperti. Don. D. Rog. Gale Arm. The very Learned Dr. Gale, late Dean of Yorke, sent me two conjoined, and some of the painted Plaister from the same Place; of which see the industrious Mr. de la Pryme's Account in the Phil. Trans. N° 263, though the Passage of Dr. Lister's he refers to, is in the Phil. Collections (N° 4.) not Transactions. A Specimen of the Roman Plaister at Buxton, mentioned by Dr. Leigh in his Nat. Hist. (Lib. 3. p. 42.) Stones of the larger Sort from a tessellated Pavement discovered by the Reverend Dr. Pearson at Kirkby upon Wherfe, near Tadcaster: A Piece of eight of them with the Floor and Cement, as set by the Romans. Don. D. Gul. Pearson Canc. Ebor. Some of the smaller sort set in a finer Cement, sent me from Ireland by Sam. Molyneux Esq; with some Fragments of the Coralline and white Urns, which leads me to another Branch of the Roman Plasticks.

Ralph Thoresby's guestbook of visitors to his museum (Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS27)
De Lumine Lumen[*] From the Nicene Creed: "Light from Light." Sept 23 1703 Abr:Abraham de la Pryme Min:Minister of Thorn FRS* obijt June 1704.