The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Mr. Hind ( - )

Identified as da Costa as "Vicar of Banstead, in Surrey, who had a collection of Natural and Artificial Curiosities, which his sister sold to Mr. Livingstone, an Apothecary, at Epsom, for twenty shillings," to which da Costa adds, "I enquired about it in 1741, and Mr. Livingstone was dead" (205). He cites as his source John Aubrey's Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, where Aubrey says Mr. Hind
was very fond of a fine Collection of Lawrels, Ivy's, and Holly's, which he formed into Grotto's, Caves, and Arbours; a proper Place this for a Poetical Genius.
Carmina secessum scribentis & otia quaerunt.
In one of the Arbors remains a Tale of Italian Marble, the only Relique of a large Collection of Curiosities in Antiquity, Art, and Nature, which his Sister sold for 20 s. to Mr. Livingstone, an Apothecary at Ebisham (II. 107).

Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Banstead, Surrey [County]
 Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - Notices and Anecdotes of Literati, Collectors, &c. from a MS. by the late Mendes De Costa, and Collected Between 1747 and 1788.
as Mentioned or referenced by - The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey: Begun in the Year 1673.
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