104 LETTERS ON SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS. 



scribe it so to me, that I may guess of what bulk it is, and 

 whether it be fit to binde blank leaves in part of it. And 

 therefore I doe not now call for the coppy which you say the 

 Deane hath left in sheets in your hands for me. Your care 

 will preserve it entire, cleane and safe for 



Your assured freind, 



JOHN PELL. 



For Mr. Moses Pit, a stationer at the 

 White Hart in Little Britaine. 



HENRY OLDENBURGH TO LORD BRERETON. 



[MS. Birch, 4280, fol. 42, Orig.] 



London, Sept. 22nd, 1668. 



My Lord, 1 pray your Lordship to accept of the enclosed 

 print, which contains a tacit confutacion of the late French 

 pretended miracle, said to be done in a village near Saumur ; 

 the narrative of which was sent hither in French, and here 

 translated and printed in English. I suppose your lordship 

 hath heard of it, how that Our Saviour appear'd, by way of a 

 picture on the altar, at the time of the masse, for a quarter 

 of an houre, many people seeing it with astonishment, which 

 afterwards was examined by the Bishop of Angiers, and de- 

 clared for a miracle in print. I have sent a copy of these 

 transactions to my correspondent at Paris, a true Huguenot, 

 with a desire to render the first head of this book French, 

 and to send it to the place where that appearance of Our 

 Saviour was made, to undeceive, if possible, the poor people, 

 and to discover the cheat of those clergymen, that would 

 father a lye upon their God. 



I saw yesternight a cart leaden with at least 600 bricks, 

 whereof each by weight weighed above four pounds, drawn 

 by one horse in an uneven and ascending way, by a new con- 

 trivance, which avoydeth rubbing much more than ordinary 

 carts. It has been devised, as I mentioned formerly, by the 

 concurrence of persons of several nations ; and the patent of 

 them is given in divers contry's ; here, to the Duke of Mon- 

 mouth, and to Sir EUis Leyton (as hemself told me), and at 

 Paris to some great persons ; as also in Flanders. In the 



