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several [separate] models of the Sepulchre at Jerusalem; one in wood: the other in plaster.

       Mosaic work of divers sorts.

       Several drafts and pieces of painting of sundry excellent masters. […]

       A book of all the stories in the glass windows of Sancta Sophia, limned in vellum by a Jew.

       Divers sorts of pictures wrought in feathers.

       A little box made of straw and silk.

       Indian books made of Phillyrea [limewood].

       Indian paper made of grasses, straw, rinds of trees with large margins full of figures and divers colours.

       Babylonian combs.

       Several Indian combs, one of reeds.

      VIII [IX] Variety of Rarities

       Indian morris bells of shells and fruits.

       Indian musical instruments.

       Indian idol made of feathers, in shape of a dog.

       Indian fiddle.

       Spanish timbrel.

       Instrument which the Indians sound at sun rising.

       Portugal musical instrument like a hoop, with divers brass plates [tambourine?].

       A choice piece of perspective in a black ivory case.

       A canoe and picture of an Indian with his bow and dart taken 10 leagues at sea anno [15]76.

       A bundle of tobacco, Amazonian.

       Birds’ nests from China.

       Indian conjurer’s rattle, wherewith he calls up the spirits.

       Indian pagod.

       The idol Osiris. Anubis the Sheep, the Beetle, the Dog, which the Egyptians worshipped….

       A circumcision knife of stone, and the instruments to take up the praeputium, of silver.

       Jew’s phylacteries with the Commandments, writ in Hebrew.

       A piece of stone of the Sarrige castle where Helen of Greece was born.

       A piece of stone of the Oracle of Apollo.

       A piece of the stone of Diana’s tomb.

       An orange gathered from a tree that grew over Zebulon’s tomb.

       Several sorts of magnifying glasses: triangular, prisms, cylinders. […]

       A trunnion of Captain Drake’s ship.

       Divers sorts of Indian jakes.

       Several sorts of cymbals.

       Cassava bread 2 sorts.

       The Padre Guardian’s staff of Jerusalem, made of a branch of one of the 70 palm trees of Elam, which he gave to Sir Thos. Roe.

       A glass horn for anointing kings.

       2 Roman urns. […]

       A hand of jet usually given to children in Turkey, to preserve them from witchcraft.

      IX [X] Warlike Instruments

       Poleaxe with a pistol.

       Poleaxe with a pistol with a mill and crossbow in it for either arrow or bullet.

       German poleaxes.

       Count Mansfeld’s poleaxe, called Persuasion.

       Indian square‐pointed dagger, broad and flat.

       Japan sword and dagger.

       Moors daggers, 2 sorts.

       Several sorts of daggers.

       Javelin – Japan, Turkish.

       Indian lance.

       Moluccan sword.

       Targets [shields] from the East India of reeds, leather, skins and crocodile skin.

       Bows 12, arrows 20, quivers 12, darts 60: from India, China, Canada, Virginia, Guinea, Turkey, Persia.

       Drums two sorts: 1 from Guinea of a whole piece of wood; 2nd from India of copper.

       Targets several sorts viz Knights Templar, Britain, Isidore the Monk, Roman, Japan, Grecian …

       Indian drumming target.

       Guinea drum made of one piece.

       China armour.

       Knife wherewith Hudson was killed on the North‐West passage, or Hudson’s Bay.

       Knives from Guinea, 3 sorts.

       Knives from Muscovey.

       A Damascus knife perfumed in the casting.

       Roman darts headed with copper, taken near Pontefract, Yorkshire.

       Models for a cannon, with the appurtenances.

       Tomahawks, 6 sorts.

       Poisoned creeses or daggers, 2 waved, 2 plain.

       Iron manacle taken in the Spanish fleet [15]88. […]

      X [XI] Garments, Vestures, Habits, Ornaments

       An Arabian vest.

       A Russian vest.

       A Portugal habit.

       A Turkish vest.

       A Brackman’s vest of leaves of aloes.

       A Virginian habit of bear’s skin.

       A Babylonian vest.

       A Greenland habit.

       A match coat from Virginia, of feathers, deer skin, Canada.

       Match coat from Greenland of the entrails of fishes.

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