The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Mr. Forster ( - fl. 1697)
Relevant locations: Lived at or near Carrawburgh, NorthumberlandLinked Objects: Collector (minor) - Roman altar
References in Documents:
my Correspondent in the North transmitted to me
for my Thoughts of them; the
of the
and may tempt us to believe that the old Procolitia, which
was the Station of the Cohors prima Batavorum, was ra
ther there, which is an important Place, (where the
ver TineWall it was but
necessary that the Foard should be secured by making one
of the Cohorts keep that Station
and a half from
Possession of Forster
least Ten Miles distance where Camden
cy it.Blenkinsop †
Castle
berland
Annius
particularly to the Debonair (if Urbana be taken appella
tively) Mansueta Claudia; for thus I read it,
Prope Colerton Cilurnum. Notitia Dignitatum imperii, est tamen
Proco
.
litia alius locus a Cilurno
Nomen hoc indicat.DEABUS
; and hereby the Defects in the Stone seem to
C L A V D I A E VRBanæ, nuncupavit Hoc Lucius
A IVS
be supplied with a right Number of Letters in each Vacu
ity, and this I the rather apprehend to be right, because
'tis now a Year since I communicated the same to an in
genious Gentleman, Dr. Cay
Person that courteously sent me the Copies of both) and
I hear not it is disapproved by any Critick upon the Place.