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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![to do anything, by the favor and encouragement of the duke. If they sett up a colledge and breed many physitians, wee shall be sure to have a great part of them in England. INIr. Clarke tells me that he sawe 2 ostridges in London, in Cromwell's time. Though you sawe an ostridge in the Duke of Florance his garden, yett I do not perceave you sawe any one among the curiosities and rarities of any of the princes of Germany. Perhaps the king will send some of his to the King of France, the Prince of Orange, &c. the losse of the Netherlands hath been very great, butt I hope not so great as is related. Grod blesse you all.—Your loving father, Thomas Bkovtne. Sir Thomas Brovme to his son Edward?—June 16, [ 1682.] Deae Soitne,—I have sent the 4 sheets you sent mee, by captaine Lulmans eldest sonne, who went this morning towards London, in the 2 dayes coach, and a paper within them. I am glad you have putt an end to that labour, though I am not sorry that you undertooke it. Wee are glad to understand, by my daughter Browne's letter, that my daughter Fairfax is delivered of a sonne. The blessing of God bee with them both, and send them health. The vessel of sider sent you from Guernzey was rackt, it came not out of Normandie butt from Guernzey, though it was not of my sonne and daughters making. They might have made much, there being plenty of apples, butt they made butt 2 or 3 hoggesheads themselves for their own use. Tour sister tells mee that they have plentie of large oysters, like Bumham oysters, about Guernzey, and all those rocky seas to St. Mallowes, and have a peculiar way of disposing and selling of them, that they are not decayed or flatt before they bee eaten. They bring them into the haven in vessells that may containe vast quantities, and when they come at a competent distance from the peere head, they anker and cast all the oysters overboard into the sea; and when the tide goeth away, and the ground bare, the people come to buy them, and the owners stand on drye ground and sell them. When the tide comes in, the buyers retire, and come agayne at the next ebbe, and buye them agayne, ' Eetrospective Keview, vol. i, p. 162..](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650337_0001_0493.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
