Volume 1
The works of Sir Thomas Browne / edited by Simon Wilkin.
- Thomas Browne
- Date:
- 1890-1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The works of Sir Thomas Browne / edited by Simon Wilkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Titian'Charles the Pirst on horseback, in the hall of the Duke's place. I am glad my cosen Cradock is come of so weU. Tis like my L. S. will sett still, and content to have escaped such a danger. Love and blessing to you, my daughter Brovs^ne, and you aU, as also from my wife; love from Pranck, duty from Tom.—Your loving father, Thomas Browne. I doubt all my letters sent [to] Gruerusey within these two moneths lye still at Southampton; the wind having continued southerly and westerly at this time of yeare beyond observation, to the great detriment of many mar- chands. Sir Thomas Browne to his son Edward.—Feh. 15, [1681-2.] Dear Sonne,—I receaved yours by the last post, which you writt after eleven o'clock at night, and made a shift to send it the same night. Tou did well to observe the eclipse, for it was a totall one, and remarkable. By this time pro- bably you have conferred with knowing persons about it, your doubts were rationall, and also your thoughts of the Apogfeum, and how the shadowe of which should bee so faynt as not to obscure the moone more, whereas some times it hath been observed, Lunam eclipsatum interdum penitus in coelo evanuisse. Butt I doubt not butt something will be sayd hereof at the E.. S. or elsewhere, from whence they will receave accounts, and also from Mr, Flamsted. The wind hath been these 3 dayes at south west agayne, so that wee may expect letters from Gruernsey. Wee heare the Duches of Portsmouth goeth for Prance, some time in March. I doubt the English will not like the setting up a colledge of physitians in Scotland,^ nor their endeavouring to sett up an East India and straight company.^ They hope * This is an error ; Titian died in 1576. It was Vandyck to whom Charles I. repeatedly sat. * 29th Nov. 1681, the king, by his letters patent, incorporated certain physicians in Edinburgh and their successors, into a body politick, by the title of the President and Royal College of Physicians, at Edin- burgh. ' 29th Oct. 1681, Charles II. granted a charter to the Company of Merchants of the city of Edinburgh. It was confirmed June 15, 1693, till which time the trade of Edinburgh seems to have been confined to Norway, the Baltick, and England.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650337_0001_0492.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
