LETTERS FROM THE BACONIAN A. 219 



exauctoratione, parliamentarism auctori tatis decreto. Tsta 

 floride et liberaliori in laudes meritissimas stylo, hoc ulti- 

 mum canto pertractando, suscipiam, ne hominibus calumni- 

 ari aut probra serere natis praebeatur noxia3 garrulitatis e 

 mea commentatione de viri long doctissimi vita et morte, 

 materes. 



Haga? Comitis, Maii 29, 1652. 



The same in English, by the Publisher. 



To the Reverend and most Learned William Rawley, 

 Isaac Gruter wisheth much health. 



Reverend Sir, 



By reason of the immature death of my brother, to 

 whom we owe the Latin translation of the Lord Bacon s 

 Natural History, I have been forced to stay a long while 

 in our native country of Zealand, in order to the settling 

 of the domestic affairs of the person deceased. Returning 

 home to Holland, I found your letter, which, 1 assure 

 you, was most acceptable to me ; yet at this I was con 

 cerned, that my necessary absence from the Hague had 

 occasioned so late an answer to it. He deserves pardon 

 who offends against his will : and who will endeavour to 

 make amends for this involuntary delay, by the study of 

 such kindness as shall be vigilant in offices of friendship, as 

 often as occasion shall be offered. 



The design of him, who translated into French the Na 

 tural History of the Lord Bacon, of which I gave account 

 in my former letters is briefly exhibited in my brother s 

 Preface, which I desire you to peruse ; as also, in your 

 next letter, to send me your judgment concerning such er 

 rors as may have been committed by him. 



That edition of my brother s, of which you write that you 

 read it with a great deal of pleasure, shall shortly be set 



