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And in whatsoever plantations or colonies of the British na- 

 tion hereafter propagated and established upon occasion of 

 this discovery, that is to say,, in those places, and by such 

 passage; there shall be duly and truely paid the tenth in 

 kind of all manner commodities whatsoever accrueing by sea 

 or land, to the maintenance of an able ministry of God's word, 

 and schools of all manner of good learning, in the same. Lastly, 

 upon the acceptance of this offer, there shall be given to the 

 maker thereof, in way and manner of earns, a pair of the 

 largest, newest and best globes, and twenty nobles in money, 

 to the furnishing him with books of like argument, for the 

 better performance thereof. 



So desireth (the l?th of October, 1626.) 



Your distressed old pupil, 



THOMAS LYDYAT. 



Concerning the motion that was made to me the other day 

 by Sir D. D. about going to Constantinople with the new 

 ambassador that is shortly to go thither ; I do not desire it 

 otherwise, than there to get a pass to travel to some of the 

 principal cities in Greece, Natolia and Syria, and to Alex- 

 andria and Cairo : and thence by means of the patriarch of 

 Alexandria and the Abasen pilgrims, that travel yearly that 

 way to and from Jerusalem, to go in company with them into 

 Ethiopia, unto mount Amara, to know the truth of what hath 

 been reported touching the library there ; and thereabouts to 

 study in divinity, history, and astronomy. If this may be 

 effected, I shall think myself much beholden to them, by 

 whose means it is effected. But in the meantime I want 

 fourty marks to print mine almanacks : anoV(I should have 

 said first) to buy me a suit of apparel to defend me from the 

 cold. 



November 30th, ] 626. 



THOMAS LYDYAT. 



HENRY BRIGGS TO JOHN PELL. 



[MS. Birch. 4395, Orig.J 



Merton College, October 25th, 1628. 



Good Mr. Pell, I must acknowledge that I receyved your 

 former letter, but my many occasions at that instant and my 

 suddaine longe journey into the northe, not knowinge ether 



