Arctotis gumbletonii
©Dr E.C. Nelson
Reproduced at www.lostlabours.co.uk/agenoria/research/research.htm
First printed in 1665, this publication is the author's own description of his production of iron using pit-coal, starting in 1618, and the subsequent ill-fortunes he suffered.
In 1618 Dud Dudley, the natural son of Lord Dudley, left Balliol College, Oxford, at the age of 20 to take over his fathers furnace and forges on Pensnett Chase. He soon claimed to have perfected the use of coal instead of charcoal for the production of Iron, and obtained a Patent from the King in 1620.
However a series of misfortunes prevented Dud Dudley exploiting his discovery, first devastating floods, then jealous competitors and finally the Civil Wars. Most of his works passing into the hands of the Foley family.
"After Iohn Rovenson, Esq. had often failed with his Inventions, and great undertakings, Gombleton, Esq. a Servant of Queen Ann’s, undertook (by Pattent) to perform the Invention of making of Iron with Pit-cole, and Sea-cole; but he being as confident of his Invention as others, did Erect his works at Lambeth, which the Author view’d; and Gumbleton failing, the Learned and Ingenious Doctor Iorden of Batsa, the Authors Acquaintance, and sundry others obtained Pattents for the making of Iron, and melting of Mines with Pit-cole aud Sea-cole, for the preservation of Wood and Timber all which Inventions and endeavours to Effect and Perfect the said. Works, have been by many hereto-fore well known, to have worthily attempted the said Invention, though with fruitless success."
Database ID: 10801
[NB this publication appears in some indexes as "The Character of Gumbletonian" which led me to
believe it was relevant...but I don't think it is!]
The character of a Grumbletonian, or The New Malcontent [Microform]
Published: London.
Printed and are to be sold by Richard Janeway 1689
Description: 1 sheet
Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library
Early English Books 1641-1700; 1352:8
Widener microforms film A147 1352:8
I have transcribed this from a photocopy of an original pamphlet in the Bodleian Library and placed it online. View transcript.
Database ID: 10802
The case of Elizabeth Gomeldon, widow [with reference to a bill to enable her to enter her claim before the commissioners and trustees for forfeited estates, etc] London, 1720? s. sh. fol (British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books S.P.P 357 b.3 (120))
Database ID: 10803
The Medley, etc, 1766 (British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books 12350 f.19)
Maxims composed by Jane Gomeldon, Newcastle 1779 (British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books 11633 bb.52(2))
Described in Melvyl database as consisting of thirty one essays on various subjects: presented by the author to one of the governesses of the lying-in hospital in Newcastle, to be printed for the benefit of that charity. Printed by J. White & T. Saint 1766
The online catalogue for the Bodleian Library includes the information:
Description: [4], 14p;40
References: ESTC, T97634
Location: Bodleian BOD Bookstack
Call number: Vet. A5e. 1025
Database ID: 10804
Reference found in online catalogue of Bodleian Library
A bill of sale of the mannors of North Court and Baynton, in the parish of Swingfield in the
county of Kent, part of the estate of Richard Gomeldon, Esq, for discharging incumbrances
Author: Great Britain, Parliament
Publisher: London 1711
Description: 4p; 20
Notes: Drop-head title. With a docket title. Enacted: Private Acts, 10 Anne c27
References: ESTC, TI88885
Alternate title: Bills 1711-04-24
Location: Bodleian BOD Bookstack
Call Number: MM29 (34) Jur. 3rd se
Database ID: 10805
Christ tempted; the Devil conquered. Or, a short exposition on the part of the fourth chapter of St. Matthew’s Gospel. Together with two sermons [on Acts x. 3,4 and Matt. x1. 28] preached before the University of Oxford some years since. London [5 June] 1657 (British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books E.912 (11))
Three sermons preached in severall places. London 1626,27 (British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books 4473 aaa.21)
Database ID: 10806
Separation & divorce: a comparative study of the canon law of the catholic church and the civil law of the state of Michigan, looking toward a solution to the problem of family break up.
Rome: Pontificia Universitas Lateramensi, Institutum Utriusque
Iuris 1964
(Melvyl database)
Database ID: 10807
Catalysts, computers & cars: a growing symbiosis
Washington DC
American Chemical Society 1980
(Melvyl database)
Database ID: 10808
General Motors Progress Towards the Federal Research Objective Emission Levels
Warrendale Pa: Society of automotive Engineers 1980
(Melvyl database)
Database ID: 10809
Corresp & papers
National Botanic Gardens
Glasnevin
Dublin 9
See Bridson, Natural History Ms resources 1980
(National Register of Archives on line)
Database ID: 10810
Irish Horticulturalists II: William Edward Gumbleton (1840-1911) connoisseur and bibliofile
Garden History 7 (3): 53-65 (1979)
This article includes considerable biographical detail about William Edward Gumbleton. Sir Joseph Hooker (a friend of W E Gumbleton) named the plant Arctotis gumbletonii after Gumbleton who had 'raised and flowered it'.
The following picture of Arctotis gumbletonii is courtesy of Dr E. C. Nelson.
Database ID: 10821
The Brightest Jewel: a history of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. Kilkenny: Boethius Press
1987
Contains extensive references to W E Gumbleton
Database ID: 10822
The shorter Pepys. Edited by Robert Latham. Penguin Classics
26-27 Aug 1668
...So I to Mr Batelier's by appointment, where I find my wife and Deb and Mercer -- Mrs Pierce and her husband, son and daughter; and Knipp and Harris; and W. Batelier and his sister Mary and cousin Gumbleton, a good-humoured, fat young gentleman, son to the Jeweller, that dances well. And here danced all night long, with a noble supper.....
23 Feb 1669
...So home, and thence to Mr Botelier's where we supped, and had a good supper; and here was Mr Gumbleton, and after supper some fiddles and so to dance; but my eyes were so out of order that I had little pleasure this night at all, though I was glad to see the rest merry......
William Batelier was a wine merchant at Crutched Friars and had sisters Mary (Pepys’s seamstress) and Susan and a brother Joseph (a wine merchant)
Database ID: 10820
Quote from Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, 25 Oct 1834
I came here to see things with my own eyes; and I have today been to see this BRODERICK’s estate, which begins at about sixteen miles from this City of Cork; and the land of this sixteen miles, taking in two miles on each side of the road, the finest that you can possibly imagine. Ah! But how did I find the working people upon this land of this BRODERICK? That is the question for you to ask, and for me to answer.
I went to a sort of HAMLET near the town of Middleton. It contained about 40 or 50 hovels. I went into several of them, and took down the names of the occupiers. They all consisted of mud-walls, with a covering of rafters and straw. None of them was so good as the place where you keep your little horse. I took a particular account of the first that I went into. It was 21 feet long and 9 feet wide. The floor, the bare ground. No fireplace, no chimney, the fire (made of potato-haulm) made on one side against the wall, and the smoke going out of a hole in the roof. No table, no chair; I sat to write on a block of wood. Some stones for seats. No goods but a pot and a shallow tub, for the pig and the family both to eat out of. There was one window, 9 inches by 5, and the glass broken half-out. There was a mud-wall about 4 feet high to separate off the end of the shed for the family to sleep, lest the hog should kill and eat the little children when the father and mother were both out, and when the hog was shut in; and it happened some time ago that a poor mother, being ill on her straw and unable to move, and having her baby dead beside her, had its head eaten off by a hog before her own eyes. No bed; no mattress; some large flat stones laid on other stones, to keep the bodies from the damp ground; some dirty straw and a bundle of rags were all the bedding. The man’s name was OWEN GUMBLETON.
Five small children; the mother about thirty, naturally handsome, but worn into half-ugliness by hunger and filth; she had no shoes or stockings, no shift, a mere rag over her body and down to her knees. The man BUILT THIS PLACE HIMSELF, and yet he has to pay a pound a year for it, with perhaps a rod of ground. Others 25s a year. All built their own hovels, and yet have to pay this rent. All the hogs were in the hovels today, it being coldish and squally; and then, you know, hogs like cover. GUMBLETON’s hog was lying in the room; and in another hovel there was a fine large hog that had taken its bed close by the fire. There is a nasty dunghill (no privy) to each hovel. The dung that the hog makes in the hovel is carefully put in a heap by itself, as being the most precious. This dung and the pig are the main things to raise the rent and to get fuel with. The poor creatures sometimes keep the dung in the hovel, when their hard-hearted tyrants will not suffer them to let it be at the door. So there they are, in a far worse state, Marshall, than any hog you have ever had in your life.
(Quoted in part in The Cause of Ireland: From the United Irishmen to Partition, by Liz Curtis (Beyond The Pale Publications, Belfast, 1994)
NOTE from J Peter Swann: I think it becomes apparent that Cobbett, an independent and somewhat radical MP, then in his seventies and the last year of his life, was a very outspoken critic of injustice and inhumanity, to the point that he was not above squeezing every ounce of pathos out of any deserving situation he came across. It is clear from reading some of the obituaries printed after his death that he was regarded with some considerable tolerant amusement, and it might be felt that his readers knew that his stories were not entirely free of embellishment. I intend to look for other evidence of this Owen Gumbleton, of whom I have not been aware until I happened upon this item.
‘Marshall’ is the name (possibly fictional) of a labourer on his estate in Sussex to whom his commentaries on his travels, as published in the ‘Weekly Political Register’, are addressed.
J Peter Swann, July 1999.
Database ID: 10830
Lamb (Robert Gumbleton) Christian watchfulness, or, a word for the new
year....a sermon...cape Town...7th January 1849
Cape Town: A.S.Robertson & J.H.Collard, 1849.
1st edition, 31 pages, large 12mo.
[Reference to this book found at www.bibliocity.com]
Database ID: 10831
De jure civiatis apud Romanos; an quis in duabus civitatibus civis esse possit. Dissertatio, etc pp18
Apud Parker et Socios: Oxonii et Londini [1886] (British Museum General Catalogue of Printed Books 5207 f.8)
Database ID: 10832
The "Feminist Companion to English Literature" states that Jane Middleton, well-educated in languages, science and philosophy, was married at an early age to Captain Francis Gomeldon, a friend of George Bowes, the Newcastle coal magnate. She left him, however, and escaped to France in male dress, where a number of exploits are ascribed to her. She returned to England on Gomeldon's death in 1751.
Her book of 31 essays "The Medley", published in Newcastle in 1766, raised over 53 pounds for the lying-in hospital. In the esays, Jane assumes a male persona to discuss Milton, Homer, the education of her daughter, cross-dressing and the unbroached subject of female adultery - having resolved "not to play the prude". She asserts that gentlemen now need improvement to render them fit companions to women. She cites Samuel Richardson and the courtesan Teresa Constantia Phillips, and creates a range of lively fictive characters. Her "Maxims", published in Newcastle in 1779, puts traditional wisdom into irregular verse.
Database ID: 10833