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rent approbation, performed matter of service worthy to be 

 imbraced, I cannot but in all duty not onely acquaynt your 

 honnour therewith, but yelde me redy to subject myselfe 

 and it to your honorable disposition. And althoughe I can 

 not so demonstrate the substance thereof as were fitt your 

 honnor should apprehend, I must yelde myselfe to your 

 lordship's good conceipt, assuringe your honnour that the 

 service shal be suche (might it please Her Majestic to make 

 use of it,) as former tymes have not attayned unto. The 

 eflfectes whereof I leave either to the judgment of some that 

 your honnour shall appoint to surviewe the same, or to the 

 information of the right honorable Sir William Knowles,, Sir 

 Henry Knyvett, Sir John Stanhopp, Mr. Thomas Knyvett, 

 and others whoe have been alredy partakers of the same by 

 viewe, humbly prayinge your honnour to accept myne ende- 

 vors, arid to contynue your honorable favours no further then 

 I intend my desires to doe your lordship and your's myne 

 uttermost service. 



Your lordship's ever at comaunde, 



EMERY MOLINEUX. 



To the Right Honorable the Lord Burleighe, 

 Lord Highe Treasurer of England. 



WILLIAM LOWER TO THOMAS HARRIOT. 



[MS. Addit. 6789. Orig.] 



Ira 'venti, March 4th, 1611. 



Sir, I never loved huntinge till you furnished mee with 

 dogs, I will henceforward prove another Nemrode ; indeed I 

 sought both arkes and tangents in the tables by proportion 

 onlie ; so, in a worde, you have made me see my faulte ; in 

 two or three more you have taughte me to amende it ; onlie 

 your curre dog Petiscus will not come into my sighte : but 

 after a weekes vaine anger and points in seekinge for him, I 

 found at last it was not the poore curres faulte, but Mr. Bills, 

 that, sendinge me the second edition of the Origonometria, 

 sente me onlie the tables ; so as turninge the pages 75, 76, 

 78, 79> of the first edition (which is all I have) I found no 

 such thinge as you sited, nor no such examples as you added. 

 This is not the first time that Bill hath sent me imperfect 

 copies ; I pray let him understand so much. So you see I 

 am defeated of the curre dog, savinge what I pick out of 



