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of your Columbus, that discovered the West Indies : 

 also the inventor of ships: your monk that was the 

 inventor of ordnance and of gunpowder : the inventor 

 of music : the inventor of letters : the inventor of 

 printing : the inventor of observations of astronomy : 

 the inventor of works in metal : the inventor of glass : 

 the inventor of silk of the worm : the inventor of 

 wine : the inventor of corn and bread : the inventor 

 of sugars : and all these by more certain tradition than 

 you have. Then have we divers inventors of our own, 

 of excellent works ; which since you have not seen, 

 it were too long to make descriptions of them ; and 

 besides, in the right understanding of those descrip 

 tions you might easily err. For upon every invention 

 of value, we erect a statua to the inventor, and give 

 him a liberal and honourable reward. These statua s 

 are some of brass ; some of marble and touch-stone ; 

 some of cedar and other special woods gilt and adorn 

 ed : some of iron ; some of silver ; some of gold. 



&quot; We have certain hymns and services, which we say 

 daily, of laud and thanks to God for his marvellous 

 works : and forms of prayers, imploring his aid and 

 blessing for the illumination of our labours, and the 

 turning of them into good and holy uses. 



&quot; Lastly, we have circuits or visits of divers princi 

 pal cities of the kingdom ; where, as it cometh to pass, 

 we do publish such new profitable inventions as we 

 think good. And we do also declare natural divina 

 tions 1 of diseases, plagues, swarms of hurtful creatures, 

 scarcity, tempests, earthquakes, great inundations, com 

 ets, temperature of the year, and divers other things ; 



l Prcedidmus etiam antequam adveniant (id quod ad Naturales Divina- 

 tiones pertinet) morbos epidemicos, $c. 



