LETTERS ON SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS. 43 



THOMAS AYLESBURIE TO THOMAS HARRIOT. 



[MS. Addit. 6789. Orig.] 



Margett, April 15th, 1613. 



Good Mr. Harriotts, Bycause I have no other newes to 

 send you, you shall only receave the bare relacion of our 

 voyage from Chatham to Margett att the North Forland, 

 which I can tell you in breiffe, though it was to us (new sea- 

 men) very tedious. For wee went on board the sixt of April, 

 and are but now arrived att the Foreland the 15., which you 

 will say is very longe, but that you know the danger of the 

 sands, and contrarie winds too, if yours att Sion agree with 

 ours att sea. I have learned here certaine strange words 

 amonge our mariners, which to interpret will require some 

 tyme. If we had bene at Vlushinge, I mought perhaps have 

 told you more, but I could forbeare writinge to you noe 

 longer, though to little purpose, savinge only to lett you un- 

 derstand that wheresoever I am, I am bound to remember 

 you, and soe rest 



Your very loyteringe, 



but lovinge skollar, 



THOMAS AYLESBURIE. 



I must not forgett to tell you, your glasses have fitted my 

 Lord excellentlie well ; and soe, as I feare you will leese them 

 both, but not without your owne consent, I have noe aucto- 

 ritie to promise till you give leave*. 



JOHN RUDSTON TO THOMAS HARRIOT. 



[MS. Addit. 6789. Orig.] 



June 9th, 1615. 



Sir, As by experience I have found your singular hu- 

 maintie by our late conferences, to make good the noble fame 

 of your great learning, so hath itt emboldened me by this my 

 letter, to request that you would send me word by this bearer 

 what the variation of the needle is about Mosco. For at this 

 present I have such an ympediment fallen into my toes, that 

 I cannot walke abroade, otherwise I had beene the presenter 



* Aylesburie is frequently mentioned as one of the scientific circle of Briggs, / 

 Harriot, Warner, and others. Some of his astronomical observations are preserved 

 in MS. Birch, 4408, and are, as far as I know, the only remaining memorials of 

 his attachment to science. 



