haue beene vſed fince that hunting, that I haue ſpoken of 
which were the firit that haue bin diſcouered in the world, 
for the vſe to heale diſeaſes: and we do truſt that with them 
will bee done maruellouswoorkes, according as they haue 
begun to do them, & al this isowing to your worfhip,feing | 
that by your booke we had knowledge to ſeek them, & to 
difcouer them, and to take them out ofthefe beaſtes which 
had them fo hidden within them, that ſurely goes much 
owing to your worfhip rſhip, for diſcouering vnro ys fo great a 
; . is the — hath bin found 
in theſe parts, whereby our nation is much bounde to you, 
and like wiſe all the world, becauſe al men fhal profit by the 
and the reſt of the ſecrets which you haue ſet don in your 
booke;which bringeth vnto vs great profit. And in recom-· 
penee ofthe benefit which I haue receiued, | fend heere to 
your woorfhip a dozen of ſtones, by the returneof lohn 
Anthonie Corfo, the rich Marehaunt, which if they come 
thither, your worfhippe may make experience of them, in 
many infirmities, for you ſhall finde great effectes in them. 
By the ſame returne alſo your woorfhip may aduiſe mee of 
them, and any thing that ſhall pleaſe you to commaund me, 
Iwill do it, as one that is moſt affectioned to you, becauſe 
you are curious and learned, and for dooing fo much good 
to the world, in thofe thinges which you baue written and 
publithed. Heerewithall I ſende you a ſmall Cheſt, in the 
which eome certeyne Friſoles, which you may commaund 
to bee fowen in the begynning of Marche, that the cold 
doo not hurt them, which ſende foortha plant like vnto 
beanes, but ſome what leſſe, which haue certeyne vaines 
here the feed is. Halfe a dozen ofthem eaten with ſa t, and 
f a ethe water of him which haththe Dropſie, with- 
dur paynes, The felfe fame effect it vort ech if that they be 
Arx, making thé into pouder & taking thé with wine, & it 
hould be, with eating 
