Volume 1

The works of Sir Thomas Browne / edited by Simon Wilkin.

  • Thomas Browne
Date:
1890-1893
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Credit: The works of Sir Thomas Browne / edited by Simon Wilkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in forreign parts, was admitted to bee a Soeius JEEonorarius of the College of Physitians in London, knighted September, 1671, Avhen the King, Queen, and Court came to Norwich; writt HeliffioMedici in English, which was since translated into Latin, French, Italian, High and Low Dutch. Pseudocloxia Mpidemica; or Enquiries into Common and J'ulgar Errors, translated into Dutch, four or five years ago. Uydriotaphia, or Urne Buriall. Hortus Oyri, or de Quincunce. Have some Miscellaneous Tracts which may be published. I can give you little or no account of any writers of Pembroke Colledge, and I believe Mr. Woods may better informe himself upon the place. Dr. Stamp, who was I think chaplaine to the Queen of Bohemia, and preached sometimes at Stepney, pub- lished somewhat, but I remember not the title. There was one Dr. Dowdswell, a learned man, lately prebend of Worcester, l)utt 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 Ti/pographia Sheldoniana, and think better of Ex Typograpliio or Typo- grapheio, or Typis Sheldonianis. Sr. your friends who persuade you to print your Templa Druidum, Sfc. do butt what is fitt and reasonable. I shall observe your desires as to observation of such tilings as you require. My wife and daughters present their respects and service. I rest. Sr. your affectionate freind and servant, Norwich, March 14, 1672-3. Tho. Bbowne. From Sir TJiomas Browne to Mr. John Aubrey. WoETHY SiE,—I was not unmindful of Mr. Wood's desires; butt the deane, in whose hands the records are, being of late much out of the towne, occasiond this delay : I now send you inclosed what is to be found. You will find Mr. Eobert Talbot named in the first of Edward the sixth ; butt when hee dyed as to the yeare is uncertaine, for after this I send, the church hath no register untill the 7th yeare of Queene Elizabeth, after which there is a good account of the prebends ; but Mr. Talbot's name not to bee found among them, so that hee dyed before that time. Bishop Corbet never had any epitaph I could here of, though there are many that can remember his death, and some the place where hee was buried; and though there have been many bishops bui-yed in this church, yett there are butt
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