Volume 1

The works of Sir Thomas Browne : including his unpublished correspondence, and a memoir / edited by Simon Wilkin.

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Credit: The works of Sir Thomas Browne : including his unpublished correspondence, and a memoir / edited by Simon Wilkin.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

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    some yeares in forreign parts, was admitted to bee a Socius Honorarius of the College of Physitians in London, knighted September, 1671, when the King, Queen, and Court came to Norwich; writt Religio Medici in English, which was since translated into Latin, French, Italian, High and Low Dutch. Pseudodoxia Epidemica; or Enquiries into Common and Vulgar Errors, translated into Dutch, four or five yeares ago. Hydriotaphia, or XJrne Buriall. Hortus Cyri, or de Quincunce. Have some Miscellaneous Tracts which may be published. I can give you little or no account of any writers of Pem- broke Colledge, and I believe Mr. Woods may better informe himself upon the place. Dr. Stamp, who was I think chap- laine to the Queen of Bohemia, and preached sometimes at Stepney, published somewhat, but I remember not the title. There was one Dr. Dowdswell, a learned man, lately prebend of Worcester, butt whether hee published any thing I knowe [not]; as also Dr. Bludworth, a divine, and Dr. William Child, now one of the Masters of Chancerie. Some accept against an expression they sometimes use at Oxford in bookes printed at the theatre,—Ex Typographia Sheldoniana, and think better of Ex Typographio, or Typo- grapheio, or Typis Sheldonianis. Sr. your friends who persuade you to print your Templa Druidum, fyc. do butt what is fitt and reasonable. I shall observe your desires as to observation of such things as you require. My wife and daughters present their respects and service. I rest, Sr. your affectionate freind and servant, THO. BROWNE. Norwich, March 14, 167f. (Direction on the back: the seal is destroyed.) To my worthy friend Mr. Aubrey, ;it Mr. Henry Coley his howse in Rose and Crowne Court in Grayes Inne Lane, these, London. (Added by Coley's own hand: he tvas son-in-law to Lilly, the astrologer.) Leave this letter at the Earl of Thanet's house in Hothfeild, to be directed as above.