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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![in your former discourse concerning those raysed heaps of earth, M'hich you lately sent me ; for all that I have seene extant of his in manuscript, is those volumes of his Collectanea and Itinerarj/es, now in the Bodleyan Library at Oxford, of which I have exact copies in the country. The next is, to entreat you to speake with one Mr. Haward (heir and executor to Mr. Haward lately deceased, who was an executor to Mr. Selden) who now lives in Norwich, as I am told, and was a sheriffe of that city the last yeare : and to desire a letter from him to Sir John Trevor, speedily to joyne with Justice Hales and the rest of Mr. Selden's executors, in opening the library in White Friars', for the sight of a manuscript of Landaffe, which may be usefull to mee in those additions I intend to the second volume of the Monasticon, now in the presse; for Sir John Trevor tells me, that he cannot without expresse order from him, do it: the rest of the executors of Mr, Selden being very desirous to pleasure me therein. If yon can get such a letter from him for Sir Johu Trevor, I pray you enclose it to me, and I will deliver it, for their are 3 keys besides. And lastly, if at your leisure, through your vast reading, you • can point me out what authors do speake of those improvements which have been made by banking and drayning in Italy, . France, or any part of the Netherlands, you wiU do me a very high favour. From Strabo and Herodotus I have what they say of Mgj-pt, I and so likewise what is sayd by Natalis Comes of Acarnania : but take your owne time for it, if at all you can attend it, 1 whereby you wiU more oblige your most humble servant and Ihonourer, William Dugdale. Dr. Browne to Mr. Duffdale.^ Norwich, Dec. 6, 1658. WoETHY Sib,—I make noe doubt you have receaued Mr. ] Howard's letter unto Sir John Trevor. Hee will be readie to (doe you any seruice in that kind. I am gladyour second booke ibf the Monasticon is at last in the presse. Here is in this citty la conuent of Black Friers, which is more entire than any in these ipart3_ of England. Mr. Eing took the draught'' of it when he iwas in Norwich, and Sir Thomas Pettus, Baronet, desired to Ihave his name sett vnto it. I conceive it were not fitt in so IgeneraU a tract to omit it, though little can be sayd of it, only * Not in Hamper's Correspondence of Dugdale.—This letter bears the Ifindorse in Dugdale's hand-writing— Dec. 6, 1658, Dr. Browne's letter (j(not yet answered). , • Qre : to ask the Docter whether ever he saw this draught.—MS. marginal Note by Dugdale in the Original. VOL. III. 2 K](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650337_0001_0511.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
