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Jo[ ] Boulter ( - 1737(?))

Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A transparent Onyx with Moss included in Part of it. Don. D. Jo. Boulter Arm.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A Portable Dial, with a Needle to direct the setting it in any Place upon Travel. Don. Jo. Boulter. Arm. A Column Dial, which being soiled, and of uncertain Latitude, was renewed and calculated for this Town by the ingenious Mr. Joseph Bland of Beeston. A declining Dial for the Library Window, by the celebrated Mr. Abr. Sharp.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

An Indian Porringer almost in the Form of a Roman Simpulum, only the Handle not so long. An Indian Cup of Cane-work admirably fine, as if Needle-work of fine Thread or Silk (seventy two in an Inch.) Don. D. Jud. Dickenson Lond. A small Basket of Twig-work very curiously wrought with Branches and Flowers of various Colours intermixed, from Enghien in Flanders. Don. Jo. Boulter Arm. A Stove used by the Dutch Women at Church and Market. A Dutch Vrow for warming the Feet in Bed. Don. Rad. Dixon Lond.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A Tooth-brush from Mecca in Arabia Felix, where is a Turkish Mosque esteemed the most glorious in the World, visited by infinite Number of Pilgrims; for the poorer Sort, of whom these, I presume, are designed, being only a Stick, whose End for an Inch long is parted into small Fibres. Don. D. Seb. Alchribel. A carved Whale-Bone five Inches broad and thirty long. Don. D. Lid. Hough. A Cord made of the Leaves of the American Aloes. Don. D. Jo. Sharp. An Indian Lanthorn made of Twig-work, or split Cane, very fine, a Yard and half long; it was brought from the East-Indies, and given me by Dr. Midgeley of Leedes. A very odd Lanthorn made of the Skin of a Fish said to be the Solpen or Scolopendra, but is rather of the Piscis Echinatus triangularis; it is a Yard and a Quarter in Compass. This was procured also from the East-Indies, and given me by Mrs. Madox. Two Fishing-Lines near five Foot long of Indian Plants. Don. D. Jo. Boulter Arm. A walking Staff, composed of eight Joints of a Sugar Cane, about seven Inches distant from each other. An Indian Cane above two Yards and a half long, painted with Variety of Colours, red, blew, yellow, green and black.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Don. D. S. Madox. Modern Swedish Spurs, the Rowels of 24 Points, a Chain instead of the Under-Leather. Don. D. Sigbr. Rosenbuch. A Turkish Horse Shoe; it is a flat Piece of Iron, with little more than an Inch cut out, and Holes for six Nails. Don. S. Molineux Arm. A Foreign Whip for Posters wrought hollow, &c. Don. J. Boulter Arm.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The Head of a Crosier's Staff; it is of Copper gilt and enamel'd, in the Form of a Serpent, the Scales of a changeable Blew, very natural, but so is not the Head, which being designed for Shew on both Sides, has a Face and two Eyes on each Side. Don. D. Sam. Smith. Part of a Priest's Habit, concealed at the Reformation in a double bottom Ark near a Chantry in Leedes: It has three Pictures of St. Peter, &c. delicately wrought in Silver and Silk of divers Colours; part of the said Vestment fell into the Hands of one who burnt it merely for the Silver's Sake, though she had too much before; but this, and a Manuscript found with it, were preserved by my Father. The Pix, or huel-bozhusel-bozhuel-boxhusel-box (a little Iron Locket) from Kirkstal Abbey for the Eucharist, or haliᵹe huelhalige husel, as I apprehend from Linwood's Const. Prov. but am since told by a Person of Honour, that it was for preserving the Relicks, which Party having been at Rome, with the last Ambassador that was sent from the Crown of England to the Pope, may well be presumed very knowing in these Matters; however it comes under the more general Notion of huel-fauhusel-fatu, or Vasa Sacra; (Wheelock's Bede, p. 98.) As also doth the Foot of a Lamp, or leoh-æleoht-faet; it is of Copper engraved in Branches, with this Inscription in old Letters, (The S in Jesus like C) Ihc. Nazarenus, rex Judeorum fili Dei Miserere mei. The Figure of St. Anthony in Padua, in an Oval Copper very well per formed in Bass-Relieve, embracing and kissing our Saviour, who in the Form of a lovely Child, sits upon his Book; (see Patrick's Reflect. p. 322.) Don. Jo. Boulter Arm. The Picture of St. Anthony the Hermit, with his Bell, Book and Pig, the Prayer to him for Cure of the Inflammation commonly called St. Anthony's Fire, may be seen in the Horæ beatæ Mariæ, before-mentioned, p. 84. b. This came from a Religious House in Derbyshire, and was given me by the Rev. Mr. Jackson Rector of Addel: It is painted upon Glass, as is also the Holy Banner, with Spes mea in Deo est; the Crown of Thorns, and other Fragments of Crucifixes, from the Windows of the Parish Church at Leedes. But what is most remarkable is a small Quarry from York-Minster, (Don. Hen. Gyles,) wherein a Goose in a Religious Habit is carrying the Crosier's Staff, &c. the Procession is made up of the like Fowls: This seems to have been made in Hatred of the Monks, whom the Secular Clergy abhorred for encroaching upon their Rights, and being now repossessed thereof, recriminate, &c.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Copper-Plates. The noted Gate-House at Wærton, engraved by Hollar, and inserted in Thoroton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire (pag. 98.) Don. D. Jo. Boulter Arm. Lambeth-House or Pallace, etched by Mr. Will Lodge of Leedes. Also some Italian Ruins, with a distant Prospect of Rome, by the same ingenious Gent. St. George and Dragon, and other two of uncertain Hands. The Picture of Mr. Henry Gyles, the famous Glass-Painter at Yorke, wrought in Mezzo-Tinto, by the celebrated Mr. Fran. Place, when that Art was known to few others. Bought, with other Curiosities, of Mr. Gyles's Executors. Ticho Brahe's System very well engraved upon Wood for the Printing-Press. A Dye from the Mint for coining Brass-Pennies, when private Tradesman had Liberty of inserting their Names and Device (this is Beware of the Beare 1670, round that Animal) upon their currant Monies. Don. D. Jac. Dawson. One Stamp inscribed, White Clothiers Seale. Another Faulty to mark the Delinquents.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A Pagod, or Temple, the Out-side painted with Japan black Varnish; the In-side wholly gilt, with an Image therein of very curious Workmanship, from the East-Indies: It has three Heads one above another, and on each Side Ten Hands (to denote Omnipotency), besides the two that are direct before in a supplicating Posture, somewhat like Bramma of the Malabarians, of which see the pious Danish Missionaries Account (pag. 20, 21.) Don. D. Jo. Boulter Arm. A deformed Idol from the West-Indies; it is of white Stone, but scarce any Thing so much as Humane in the Figure, yet adored by the Natives of Jamaica (who had fled with it to the Mountains of Leguanee) whence it was brought me by Mr. Sam. Kirkshaw Merchant. Another of black, yet more deformed with a Beasts Head, &c. Don. Sam. Molineux Arm.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Stemma Regalis Augustissimi Monarchæ Jacobi Magn. Brit. Fran. & Hib. Regis, &c. it is curiously delineated upon Parchment from Malcolme, and St. Margaret, to Prince Henry 1604. Don. D. Jo. Boulter Arm. Pedigree of Brooke Baron of Cobham. The Original Subsidy for the Wapentake of Skyrake granted to K. Hen. 8. An. 1549. subscribed by John Gascoigne Esq; &c. Commissioners. Don. D. Cyr. Arthington Arm. The third Subsidy to K. Ja. I. for the said Wapentake, subscribed by Sir Tho. Fairfax, and Sir Hen. Goodricke Knts. 1605. A List of the Lord Mayors of Yorke (and short Historical Notes) from 1488 to 1588; all upon Parchment.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The Story of Adonis devoured by a Wild Boar issuing out of a Wood, of like curious Workmanship in Bass-Relieve, scarce an Inch Square; it seems to have been designed as an Amulet or Talisman. Don. D. Jo. Boulter Arm.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Don. D. Jo. Boulter Arm.
A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 a very curious Indian Deity, engraved & gilded thro out, & so the inside of the Shrine or Temple, the outside well Japand Don: Johis Boulter Arm: