The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Mr. Midgeley ( - )
Relevant locations: Lived at or near Beverley, East YorkshireReferences in Documents:
tessellated Pavements, or Dice-like Squares of
Stone or Brick,
wherewith the
used to pave the Place, where they set theRomans
Præ
torium, or General's Tent,
torium
&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
from a QuarIsurium (Aldbrough )
ter to half an Inch Square:
ed and red, which I took from a checquered Pavement discovered
there,
An.
by
MusaicWork (in
May1703
.Romans
Sizes as sent me
Midgeleyof
Beverley
vered in those Parts, which hath not yet met with a Person of Curio
sity enough to give the World an Account of it.
the noted
Pavement nearStunsfield
, concerning which the inOxford
genious
Hearne
to the 8th Vol. of
's Itinerary.Leland
. Don. D.Lapides tessellati pavimenti apud
Roxby in Com. Lincolniensi , An. Dom. 1699 reperti
Roxby in Com. Lincolniensi
Rog.
Gale
Arm.
Gale, late Dean of
Yorke
conjoined
which see the industrious
de la Pryme
N° 263
's he refers to, is in theLister
Phil.
Collections(N° 4.) not
Collections
Transactions.
Roman Plaister
at
, mentioned byBuxton
Leigh
Pearson
uponKirkby
, nearWherfe
:Tadcaster
.Romans
Don. D.
Canc.Gul. Pearson
.Ebor
finer Cement, sent me from
byIreland
Sam. MolyneuxEsq
ther Branch of the
.Roman
Plasticks