LETTERS ON SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS. 99 



presse differs from your writing. They will this day or to 

 morrow have done with the table (as I suppose) and will be 

 wholly imployed in the body of the book again as the med- 

 dling with the table. Although readers and printers are all 

 very willing to see it out ; yet, whenever you please, the presse 

 shall be perfectly stop't to attend you. I shall from time to 

 time acquaint you where they be, and when they want further 

 help, but no such addresses are intended to streighten you in 

 your conveniencyes. If you please to put a title to the table, 

 they may print that and the first leafe of the table, which I 

 shall presently fall on proving once more, unles you have any 

 body that can and will ease me and shew me the errata, which 

 I hope will not be very many. My last tedious letter gave 

 you an account of what I then thought necessary, nor have I 

 now any thing else to adde thereabout. I beg your pardon 

 for having been an occasion of so great a divertisement to 

 you, wherein if I did not fear I had allready intrenched on 

 your other occasions, I should have adventured to beg your 

 assistance for generall direction in these studyes, and I have 

 fancyed that 2 or 3 generall fundamentall notions would lend 

 me no small light, untill God shall please to grant me the 

 happinesse of further attendance on you. And I wish I might 

 be as meet for future as I am thankfull for past communica- 

 tions. In the mean time I must wait for an opportunity to 

 serve you to my power. I commit you to God's protection. 

 Yours ever obliged to honour and serve you, 



THO: BRANCKEB. 



THOMAS BRANCKER TO JOHN PELL. 



[MS. Birch, Brit. Mus. 4278, fol. 40, Orig.] 



Tottenham, July 6th, 1666. 



Honoured Sir, Your last of July 2 came to me July 5. I 

 return humble thanks for the sheet therein enclosed. I have 

 copyed it and purpose tomorrow morning to send to the press. 

 The labour and time which the processe and copyes therof 

 required must needs have been great, and much aggravates 

 your bounty in the communication. And I cannot but, upon 

 occasion herof, adventure to expresse what hath been much 

 in my thoughts before. I am very sensible what an occasion 

 of trouble to you this my imperfect undertaking hath proved. 

 Which yet I can not say I repent of, because I can not ques- 

 tion a considerable advantage to be reaped thereby by all in- 



H 2 



