Volume 1

The works of Sir Thomas Browne : including his unpublished correspondence, and a memoir / edited by Simon Wilkin.

  • Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
Date:
1846
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Credit: The works of Sir Thomas Browne : including his unpublished correspondence, and a memoir / edited by Simon Wilkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    who was then rector of Burnham Westgate3 in the neighbourhood. It is recorded by Wood, that his practice was very extensive, and that many patients resorted to him. In 1637* he was incorporated doc- tor of physick in Oxford. He married in 16411 Mrs. Mileham, of a good fa- mily in Norfolk;4 a lady (says Whitefoot) of such symmetrical proportion to her worthy husband, both in the graces of her body and mind, that they seemed to come together by a kind of natural magnetism. This marriage could not but draw the raillery of contemporary wits I upon -a man, who had just been wishing in his new book, that we might procreate, like trees, without conjunction; and had lately de- clared, § that the whole world was made for man, but only the twelfth part of man for woman; and, that man is the whole world, but woman only the rib or crooked part of man. Whether the lady had been yet informed of these contemptuous positions, or whether she was pleased with the conquest of so formidable a rebel, and con- sidered it as a double triumph, to attract so much merit, and overcome so powerful prejudices ; or whe- ther, like most others, she married upon mingled motives, between convenience and inclination; she had, however, no reason to repent: for she lived hap- pily with him one and forty years ; and bore him ten5 children, of whom one son and three daughters out- lived their parents: she survived him two years, and passed her widowhood in plenty, if not in opulence. * Wood. f Whitefoot. % Howell's Letters, book i, 60, and Religio Bibliop'olcc. § Religio Medici. 3 Burnham. Westgate.'] Sec Supple- Edward Mileham, Esq. of Bnrlinghain, mcntary Memoir. in Norfolk.—See Pedigree, A[C. < Mrs. Mileham, #C.] Daughter of * ten,] Eleven.—See Pedigree.