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he thought it worth fo much pains, as by a Pojifcript in his Letter, 

 to make a flight enquiry of it. The Letter Chich was writ out of 

 Kent, and dated three days beforej came to his Sons hands the very 

 morning after the night in which the robbery was committed ; and when 

 /^Univerfity and City were both in aperplext inqueft cftheThieves, 

 then did Mr. Wotton Jhew his Fathers Letter, by which fuch light 

 was given of thi* work, of darknefl, that the five guilty perfons were 

 frefently difcovered, and apprehended. 



48. Amongft the unufual accidents attending men in their 



Lives, we muft alfo reckon all unufual difeafes, fuch as that of 



Mr. Evans Re&or of Heath, who had a Ranula under his tongue, 



wherein there bred a Hone, I fuppofe e f anguine craffo isr terreftri ; 



or as they call it, a Tartar eom humor got together in the veins 



under the tongue, fo hard and great that it almoft quite deprived 



/wflofhis fpeech ; which he drew away with his own hand, and 



as he told me fent it to the Medicin School at Oxford; but upon 



fearch I could not find it, nor had the School-keeper ewer heard of 



any fuch matter: So that whoever he were that he fent it by, 



proved falfe both to him and the Vniverfity ; which I the rather 



note, that people hereafter may take more care by whom they 



fend fuch matters. Of juft fuch another ftone as this Mr. Lifter 



gives us an account in a Letter to his Grace the Arch-Bifiop of 



Tork c , cut from under the tongue of zman, and now preferved 



in the Repository of the Royal Society, which he chufes to call 



Lapis Atheromas, though the place of its birth made him allow 



the diftemper to be a Ranula : but for my part, though the Ranula 



be always a tumor, and fomtimes perhaps of that fort they call 



Atheromata; yet the place giving the difeafe a peculiar name, I think 



I ought rather to call it Lapis Ranul&, from the place of its birth, 



and thofe only Lapides Atheromath found in that tumor in other 



places of the body. 



49. To this may be added a large ftone taken out of the bladder 

 of one Skingley of Oxford, weighing above a pound, and being 

 ten inches round one way fere, and full eleven the other ; prefer- 

 ved, and now to be feen in the Medicin School. As alfo a Corn 

 that grew on the Toe of one Sarney zWheel-wright, of St. AU 

 dates Yznfh'm. the City of Oxford, Anno 1655. two inches long, 

 which for the unufual figure and bignefs of it, I have caufed to 



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