228 LETTERS FROM THE BACONIANA. 



Trajecti ad Mosam, unde post duos tresve menses Novo- 

 magum migro, Batavis futurus propior. Per Smithseum 

 tamen transmittere ad me perges, si quid volueris. 



Kal. Julii, 

 St. N. CIO IOC LIX. 



The same in English, by the Publisher. 



To the Reverend and most Learned William Rawley, 

 D. D. Isaac Gruter wisheth much health. 



Reverend Sir, and my most dear Friend, 

 How much I hold myself honoured by your present of 

 the Lord Bacon s Posthumous Works, published lately 

 by you in Latin, my thanks immediately returned had let 

 you understand, if ill fortune in the passage (which is, for 

 divers causes uncertain) had not deluded the care of a 

 friend, who did here with much readiness undertake the 

 conveyance of them. 



Now the gift is by so much the greater, by how much 

 the more benefit I reaped by diligent reading of those 

 papers, and by comparing them with some of the Lord 

 Bacon s works, which I myself had formerly published. 

 For to you we owe the more enlarged History de demo et 

 raro, as also many other things contained in that volume, 

 which saw not the light before. One paper I wonder I 

 saw not amongst them, the Epistle of the Lord Bacon to 

 Sir Henry Savil, about the helps of the intellectual 

 powers, spoken of long ago in your letters, under that or 

 some such title, if my memory does not deceive me. If it 

 was not forgotten, and remains among your private papers, 

 I should be glad to see a copy of it, in the use of which my 

 faithfulness shall not be wanting. But perhaps it is written 

 in the English tongue, and is a part of that greater volume, 



