The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
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:
Onyx with Moss included in Part of it. Don. D.
Boulter
Portable Dial, with a Needle to direct the setting it in any
Place
upon Travel. Don.
ColumnDial , which being
soiled, and of uncertain Latitude, was renewed and calculated for this
Town by the ingenious
Joseph Bland
Beeston.
for the Library Window, by the celebrated
Abr. Sharp
Indian Porringer almost in the Form of a
, onRoman Simpulum
ly the Handle not so long.
ofIndian Cup
Cane-workadmirably
fine, as if Needle-work of fine Thread or Silk (seventy two in an Inch.)
Don. D.
.Jud. Dickenson Lond
ofBasket
Twig-workvery cu
riously wrought with Branches and Flowers of various Colours inter
mixed, from
usedStove
by the
forDutch Vrow
warming the Feet in Bed.
.Don. Rad. Dixon Lond
Tooth-brush from
, where is aArabia
Felix
esteemed the most glorious in the World, visited by infinite Number
of Pilgrims; for the poorer Sort, of whom these, I presume, are de
signed, being only a Stick, whose End for an Inch long is parted in
to small Fibres. Don. D.
five InchesWhale-Bone
broad and thirty long. Don. D.
made of theCord
Leaves of the
. Don.American Aloes
Indian Lanthorn
made of
Twig-work, or split Cane, very fine, a Yard and half long;
it was brought from the
Midgeley
made of theLanthorn
Skin of a Fishsaid to be
the
Solpenor
Scolopendra, but is rather of the
Piscis Echinatus triangula
ris; it is a Yard and a Quarter in Compass. This was procured also
ris
from the
Madox
Fishing-Lines
near five Foot long of
. Don. D.Indian Plants
walkingStaff , composed of eight Joints of a
Sugar Cane, about seven
Inches distant from each other.
above two Yards andIndian Cane
a half long, painted with Variety of Colours, red, blew, yellow,
green and black.
Swedish Spurs, the Rowels of 24 Points,
a Chain instead of the Under-Leather. Don. D.
; it is a flat Piece of Iron, with little more than an
Turkish Horse Shoe
Inch cut out, and Holes for six Nails. Don.
reign
forWhip
Posterswrought hollow,
&c. Don.
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.
a Priest's Habit, concealed at the Reformation in a
double bottom Ark
near a Chantry in
Peter
&c. deli
cately 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 Ma
nuscript found with it, were preserved by
Pix, or
KirkstalAbbey
rist, or
am since told by a Person of Honour, that it was for preserving the
Relicks, which Party having been at
that was sent from the Crown of
presumed very knowing in these Matters; however it comes under
the more general Notion of
Vasa Sacra; (
Bede, p. 98.
Lamp, or
of Copper engraved in Branches, with this Inscription in old Letters,
(The S in
Ihc. Nazarenus, rex Judeorum fili Dei Miserere mei.
Anthony
Bass-Relieve, embracing and kissing
the Form of a lovely Child, sits upon his Book; (
Reflect.
p. 322.
Anthonythe Her
mit
Bell, Bookand
Pig, the Prayer to him for Cure of the
Inflammation commonly called
, may be seen in theSt. Anthony 's Fire
Horæ beatæ Mariæ, before-mentioned,
p. 84.
b.
ligious House in
Jack
son
son
Holy
Banner, with
Banner
Spes mea in Deo est;
ofCrown
Thorns,
ments of
, from the Windows of the Parish Church atCrucifixes
But what is most remarkable is a small Quarry from
(Don.
Goosein 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.
Copper-Plates.
and inserted in pag. 98.)
Jo. Boulter Lambeth-House or
Pallace
of
by the same ingenious Gent.
of uncertain Hands.
Glass-Painter at
Mezzo-Tinto, by the celebrated
with other Curiosities, of
stem
Dye
from the
Mintfor coining
Brass-Pennies, when private Tradesman
had Liberty of inserting their Names and Device (
this is Beware of
the Beare
the Beare
Don. D.
White Clothiers Seale.
ther
Faultyto mark the Delinquents.
Pagod, or Temple, the Out-side painted with
the In-side wholly gilt, with an Image therein of very curious
Workmanship, from the
another, and on each Side Ten Hands (to denote Omnipotency), be
sides the two that are direct before in a supplicating Posture, somewhat
like
Brammaof the
naries Account
pag. 20, 21.)
from theIdol
so much as Humane in the Figure, yet adored by the Natives of
maica
was brought me by
Sam. Kirkshaw
yet more deformed with a Beasts Head,
&c. Don.
Arm.
Stemma Regalis Augustissimi Monarchæ Jacobi Magn. Brit. Fran.
& Hib. . it is curiously delineated upon Parchment from
Regis, &c
,Malcolme
and
Margaret
Henry
ArmJo. Boulter
gree of
Brooke
.Cobham
take of
granted toSkyrake
Hen. 8.
An.
John
GascoigneEsq
Gascoigne
&c. Commissioners. Don. D.
third
Ja. I.
Tho. Fairfax
Hen. GoodrickeKnts.
Mayors of
(and short Historical Notes) fromYorke
all upon Parchment.
ArmJo. Boulter
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
Amuletor
Talisman.
D.
Arm.Jo.
Boulter
D.
Arm.Jo.
Boulter
a Transparent
with moss thereinOnix
Don:
a very curious
, engraved &Indian Deity
gilded thro out, & so the inside of the
Shrine or Temple, the outside well Japand
Don:
a Copper
r
Hollars