The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Memorandum 28 April 1658
Brent Nelson
general editor
Canterbury
Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral Archives
Loose papers
single sheet
Memorandum April 28, 1658
Bargrave's note-taking hand: mostly clear, but some smudging
Dated 28 April 1658
Canterbury Cathedral
1recto
Memorandū
Memorandum
Apll
April
28. 1658
In 2 trunks left wth with my sister
Halsy at
Mr
Mr.
Lockentons house at the kings armes in
Knight
riders streete neer oldfishstreet.
In the pockets of my black cloath breeches left in the
haire truncke.
A meddale of gold of the Emp. Ferdinand
iii of 4 to sterl
A siluer meddal of Pope Innocent 10th
and one of
Alexandr
Alexander vii.
A large siluer meddale of the young Prince of Orange.
2 smale peeces of gould, and one of siluer of the Coronation
of theking of Bohemia, when I was
present.
A pistol of the Sede Vacante, another of France, and
another of the Prince of Orange.
Thirteen gould Ducats or Hungars.
Seauen peeces of old gould
1 Siluer peece guilded of Charles I K of
England.
A Jubile peece of siluer,
wth
with
the porta Santa.
A greate gould ring with my uncle Roberts seale.
a gold inamel seale with a woman cut in a stoane.
A gold ring with a cutt, Aristot
head, in a granade stoane.
Betweene 20 and 30 intaglios, or cutt stoanes for rings.
4 good Cameos or rilieuo stoans for rings.
2 fine peeces of pasto’s anticos.
2 onixes, Tourquois, and about 30 more stoanes for rings.
A greate tooth with the gums turnd into stoane.
A lapis stellaris like a heart.
A pretty bigg peece of Amathist un cutt.
Seuerall serpents teeth turned into stoane.
A read and white Jasper ball, and a bloodstone ring.
A blew stoane owt of the mines of Tiroll.
1verso
6 or 7 molachites stoanes, a steele chaine, a broken
gold ring, with asiluer spoone, and a forke.
a paper of smale false rubies Cacus
his preiste in
brass.an old Esculapius in brass.
A greene silke and siluer Naples
scarfe. a Roma sot
torranea lamp, andlacrimatoiolachrymatory of earth.
A sexangular peece of Chrystal about 5 inches long,
as it naturally groeth, and I had it amongst the
Rhetian Alpes.
A box of pictures of the kings passion; Another box of pictures.
In the haire trunk more left.
An Oual white box with 58 græcian and Roman
meddalls
with other antiquities.
A white square box with about 12 medalous and 60
oldGreeke and Roman Medalls, with little statutes
and other antiquities. 3 paire of Camuchios or Gemps his hornes,an
in-
laid highdutch powder flaske; a muschroome in
stoane. 40 peeces of Juspmuk caines.
A Cilinder.
In a canuas purse
3 precious stoane padlocks, an antiquity of Tiber
cutt in Corrall.a load stone. 3 high dutch
coynes of about halfe a crowne a peece,other
stoanes:a ring squint.
In a white Oual box, a mouse, a Lyon, a tygar,
anda cat, that runn
with watch worke on
wheeles.
The Cutts of the fountaines, Baserielicco’s statues
Pallaces, &t ofRome. The
Cut of
ye
the
Church at
2rectoMilan, Strasbourg &t
An Oual white box wth 15 large stoanes and
Pasto’s antiquo’s, with some garnet stoanes with
a round box in it of aboue 100 false stoanes.
2 or 3 optick glasses, a canuas bagg of siluer minerals.
A leather purse with beads, gloves in walnuts, a
brass
Hercules, a doffindolfin, and
old key of
ye
the
tēmpletemple of Luna,
stoanes and coynes ropt up in a paper.
A blew and yellow knit purse full of high
Ger-
man mony.
A leather purse
wth
with
about 25 siluer and brass
Roman coines, with the reliques of
Sybilla
Cumana’s grotto.
A Persyan tweezer, an Optick longsight
wth
with
figures.
A little redd box
wth
with
the 12 Cæsars and other
meddals.
A box with geese and ducks, another
wt
with
2 wax figures
andVenice mony in sugar.
A Canuas bagg with seuerall memorials of my
trauell.
A Emperor on horseback in a picture for the
Cilindar
Seueral, Hungarian, Bohemian, high Dutch,
Italian, latin, bookes.
Diuers papers, and writings.
In the black trunke.
A wodden eye for optick glasses
A trumpet of barks of trees.
2 moddels for chamber fountaines.
A high Dutch woman in wax in a
box.
2verso
Venus and Cupid in wax in a box.
Hens and Chickins in wax in a box.
A Storke, a Chamois or Gemps in a box.
2 greate pots, and one lesser one, a pestle
and morter,a salt
seller, a standish, and
a broken candlestick, all of Serpentine
stoane.
An Emperors figure in Clay. 2t.
A Cast marble table
frō
from
Rome, with fi-
gures,Orpheus and the beasts about
him.
A bears skine.
In 2 trunks left wth with my sister
Halsy at
Mr
Mr.
Lockentons house at the kings armes in
Knightriders streete neer old
fishstreet.
In the pockets of my black cloath breeches left in the haire truncke.
A meddale of gold of the Emp. Ferdinand
iii of 4 to sterl
A siluer meddal of Pope Innocent 10th
and one of
Alexandr
Alexander vii.
A large siluer meddale of the young Prince of Orange.
2 smale peeces of gould, and one of siluer of the Coronation of the
king of Bohemia, when I was
present.
A pistol of the Sede Vacante, another of France, and another of the Prince of Orange.
Thirteen gould Ducats or Hungars.
Seauen peeces of old gould
1 Siluer peece guilded of Charles I K of
England.
A Jubile peece of siluer,
wth
with
the porta Santa.
A greate gould ring with my uncle Roberts seale.
a gold inamel seale with a woman cut in a stoane.
A gold ring with a cutt, Aristot
head, in a granade stoane.
Betweene 20 and 30 intaglios, or cutt stoanes for rings.
4 good Cameos or rilieuo stoans for rings.
2 fine peeces of pasto’s anticos.
2 onixes, Tourquois, and about 30 more stoanes for rings.
A greate tooth with the gums turnd into stoane.
A lapis stellaris like a heart.
A pretty bigg peece of Amathist un cutt.
Seuerall serpents teeth turned into stoane.
A read and white Jasper ball, and a bloodstone ring.
A blew stoane owt of the mines of Tiroll.
1verso
6 or 7 molachites stoanes, a steele chaine, a broken gold ring, with a
siluer spoone, and a forke.
a paper of smale false rubies Cacus
his preiste in brass.
an old Esculapius in brass.
A greene silke and siluer Naples
scarfe. a Roma sot torranea lamp, and
lacrimatoiolachrymatory of earth.
A sexangular peece of Chrystal about 5 inches long, as it naturally groeth, and I had it amongst the
Rhetian Alpes.
A box of pictures of the kings passion; Another box of pictures.
In the haire trunk more left.
An Oual white box with 58 græcian and Roman
meddalls with other antiquities.
A white square box with about 12 medalous and 60 old
Greeke and Roman Medalls, with little statutes and other antiquities. 3 paire of Camuchios or Gemps his hornes,
an
in-laid high
dutch powder flaske; a muschroome in
stoane. 40 peeces of Juspmuk caines.
A Cilinder.
In a canuas purse
3 precious stoane padlocks, an antiquity of Tiber
cutt in Corrall.
a load stone. 3 high dutch coynes of about halfe a crowne a peece,
other stoanes:
a ring squint.
In a white Oual box, a mouse, a Lyon, a tygar, and
a cat, that runn
with watch worke on wheeles.
The Cutts of the fountaines, Baserielicco’s statues
Pallaces, &t of
Rome. The
Cut of
ye
the
Church at2recto
Milan, Strasbourg &t
An Oual white box wth 15 large stoanes and Pasto’s antiquo’s, with some garnet stoanes with
a round box in it of aboue 100 false stoanes.
2 or 3 optick glasses, a canuas bagg of siluer minerals.
A leather purse with beads, gloves in walnuts, a
brass Hercules, a doffindolfin, and
old key of
ye
the
tēmpletemple of Luna,
stoanes and coynes ropt up in a paper.
A blew and yellow knit purse full of high
Ger-man mony.
A leather purse
wth
with
about 25 siluer and brassRoman coines, with the reliques of
Sybilla Cumana’s grotto.
A Persyan tweezer, an Optick longsight
wth
with
figures.
A little redd box
wth
with
the 12 Cæsars and other meddals.
A box with geese and ducks, another
wt
with
2 wax figures and
Venice mony in sugar.
A Canuas bagg with seuerall memorials of my trauell.
A Emperor on horseback in a picture for the Cilindar
Seueral, Hungarian, Bohemian, high Dutch,
Italian, latin, bookes.
Diuers papers, and writings.
In the black trunke.
A wodden eye for optick glasses
A trumpet of barks of trees.
2 moddels for chamber fountaines.
A high Dutch woman in wax in a
box.
2verso
Venus and Cupid in wax in a box.
Hens and Chickins in wax in a box.
A Storke, a Chamois or Gemps in a box.
2 greate pots, and one lesser one, a pestle and morter,
a salt
seller, a standish, and a broken candlestick, all of Serpentine
stoane.
An Emperors figure in Clay. 2t.
A Cast marble table
frō
from
Rome, with fi-gures,
Orpheus and the beasts about
him.
A bears skine.