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Hen[ ] Pierse ( - )

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Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A great Sea Fan above a Yard high, and in some Parts two Foot and half broad, of a very fine Texture. Other lesser Fans as well as the more open, as of the closer Net-work; one without the Crust; to some of these are fixed the Nests of a certain Insect, as small as a Bean or Pea. One with stronger Purple Stems, they grow at the Bottom of the Sea in all the hot West-Indies (f)(f) Dr. Sloane's Nat. Hist. of Jamaica, p. 56., and are used to fan the richer Sort, when they eat, and to keep away Gnats and Muscato's. Small yellow Flowers from the Norway Coasts. Don. D. Sus. Maddox. Sea-blobber. Spunge. Different Sorts of Fungus. Oryza, Rice an Ear of it, as it grows in Jamaica; it is used not for Food only, but Drink, even an inebriating Liquor called Arack being made of it (g)(g) Idem. p. 104.. Millium Indicum, or Guinea Corn of Dampier. An Ear of Virginian Wheat, the Stem is about two Inches round, the Ear (composed of many small Branches) half a Foot long, the Grain as small as the former. Don. Hen. Pierse Barti. Two prodigious long Ears of Wheat that grew at Birshall near Leedes, which have Out-branches from the main Stem. A Stalk of Oats with about 200 Grains in the Ear, that grew at Leedes. Some of the supposed Wheat that came down in a hasty Shower near Leedes 29 May 1681. and of that rained 26 July 1702, different from the former, and both from real Wheat, being Seeds of Ivy-berries (h)(h) Phil. Trans. N° 186., or other Plants hoarded up by the Birds.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A Case for a Pair of Spectacles wrought in Silver and Silk Flowers, by Mrs. Priscilla Rawden (who gave it me) Sister to the memorable Sir George Rawden. Knots of Ribbands made up of old, in Form of Roses, &c. within a Japan Wax gilded. A Screw Box of Irish Wood covered with Straw-work of beautiful Colours. An Essence Bottle of the like Materials, made and sent by Mrs. Marshal of Dublin. The Figure and Bulk of a Frog in Needle-work of Silk, very natural. Don. Hen Pierse Bart.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

165. A Sermon of Antichrist, preached at Christ-Church Dublin, Nov. 12. 1676. by the R. R. Henry Jones, Lord Bishop of Meath (since print ed in Ireland.) The Present of Sir Hen. Pierse Bart. (whose Autograph it is) Great Grand-Son to the said Bishop.