CRESSY DYMOCK. 93 



and deservetli far better to be cherislied and supported, 

 than hitherto it hath been. Yet I hope he shall not 

 need to go into Sweden for patronage/^ 



The three works named are clearly, therefore, the 

 production of Cressy Dymock, the same who the next 

 year after their publication, namely in 1652, wrote A 

 discovery for division or setting out of Landj in which 

 is one letter signed in full, Cressy Dymock, and ano- 

 ther, C. D., while the letters of the tracts. Engines of 

 Motion, and the Advice on Husbandry, have only the 

 mark of two parallel lines =zzzz^ from one to two 

 inches long, and about a quarter of an inch wide, which 

 must have been his device. 



The editor has not met with any bibliographical or 

 biograpliical notices of Cressy Dymock, but, from the 

 uncommonness of the name, which may be traced to 

 Lincolnshire, it is probable his family belonged to that 

 county. 



Among the Harleian* and the Additional MSS.f 

 in the Library of the British Museum, are two volumes 

 of each, containing short pedigrees of the family of 

 Dymock. 



Writing to Boyle,t on the 8th of May, 1654, Hartlib 

 observes : — " Honest Mr. Dymock is blamed almost by 

 every body, though the fault, in my judgment, be as 



* No. 1052, Art. 173 ; and No. 1233, Art. No. 96. 

 t No. 5531, p. 83 ; and No. 5937, p. 83, b. 

 X Boyle'8 Works, 5th vol. folio, 1744, p. 264. 



