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in though the latter is faid to have obtained the better, yet being 

 but an inferior, at parting fubmitted himfelf with the reft of the 

 Bachelors to the Dean in this form, Domine quidfaciemws, as it 

 were begging punilhment for their boldnefs in arguing ; to whom 

 Scotus returning this anfwer, he, isrfacite quidvultis. They forth- 

 with brake open the Buttery and Kitchin doors, taking all they 

 could meet with, making merry with it all night: Which, Vis 

 faid, gave occafion to their obferving the fame diverfion to this 

 very day, whenever the Dean keeps the Bachelors at Di/putations 

 till twelve at night, which they now commonly call a Black, 

 night. 



193. Roger it* Smffet ', alias Swinfhead, of the fame College, was 

 the firffc Contriver of the Art Calculator) in difputation, wherein 

 'fays the Learned Selden, Multiplicath particulis negatives & traje- 

 ftkper effe, & non effe, Calculo (which was Beans and Peas) opus 

 erat, quotieserat difputandum*. But others who have confulted 

 more Of his Works than I fuppofe Mr. Selden ever did, rather think 

 this Ait Calculator), to be fome way he had to determine the^ro- 

 portionsof matters capable of proportion or degrees, fuch as aclion, 

 motion, reaction, intension, remiffion, istc. whereof the Reader, if he 

 think it worth while, may further fatisfie himfelf from his Print- 

 ed Works ; fuch as his Introduclorium in Calculationem, his Calcu- 

 lationes cum Qusjl. de Reaclione, his Treatifes de intenfione & remiffi- 

 one, maximo is" minimo ; to which add, M. Baffani Politi, Introdu- 

 florium in C alculationes Swijfet, moft of which, if not all, are in 

 Merton College Library . 



1 94. The fame Roger Swijfet found out many things in Mathe- 

 maticks, which no body found before him, is perpaucipofi eumjam 

 Inventa comprehendere valuerunt, fays Pitfem of him f . And the 

 Honorable Robert Dudley of Cbrift Church College Oxon (made Duke 

 by the Emperor g , with the Title of Northumberland here in En- 

 gland, whereof he fanfied himfelf wrongfully deprived) contri- 

 ved many Engines and Mathematical Infiruments not known be- 

 fore, now in thepofleffion of the Great Duke oiTufcany, to whofe 

 Anceslorshe applyed himfelf in his difcontent, by whom he was 

 fuccor'd and highly valued for his great Learning, and with whom 

 his Children now remain to this day in Wealth and Honor, retain- 



* Vid Comment, in Carmen Thaleucium, Job. Se/deni, before iloptons Concordance of Years- f Vid. 

 Pitfei Relatione; Hift. de rebus Angl. prafertimde Seriptoribus in An. 1350. ' Hift. & Antiquitates Vni- 

 verfttatis Oxon- per Anthonium a Wood, lib. 2 /><. 275. 



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