64 LETTERS ON SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS. 



Soils et lunae periodus octodesexcentenaria. 



Kpistola astronomica. 



Numerus aureus melioribus lapillis insignatus. 



{'Dedicated to your Majesty's 



Emendatio temporum. I dearest brother, the Most No- 

 Recensio argumentorum. | ble Prince Henry of blessed 



L memory. 



These that I have now to print, not before published. 

 Prooemium trium diatribarum astronomicarum. 

 Diatriba; et animadversiones astronomicae. 

 Problema astronomicum. 



Circuli dimensio Lydyatea, Archimedea succenturiata. 

 Marmoreum chronicon Arundellianum, cum annota- 



tionibus. 

 Divina sphaera humanorum eventuum. Observed during 



mine imprisonment) and dedicated to your Majesty. 



THOMAS LYDYAT TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF 

 CANTERBURY. 



[MS. Bodl. 662.] 



May it please your Grace, Being desirous to finish and 

 publish, as I hope for the greater good of the church of God 

 and of my country, and the commonweal of good learning, 

 sundry books and treatises begun by me, partly before and 

 partly during the time of my long imprisonment, to the 

 finishing whereof I cannot be so conveniently provided of 

 books at my small benefice in the country as in London, Ox- 

 ford, and other like places, furnished with libraries and 

 shops of books of all sorts ; and moreover whereas the pub- 

 lishing of them will require my personal attendance for the 

 correcting of the printer's press; mine humble petition to 

 your Grace is, to grant me to that end and purpose, a dispen- 

 sation for absence from my small parsonage and rectory of the 

 parish church of Alkerton in the county and diocese of Ox- 

 ford, for three years ; and for the drawing and sealing thereof 

 by the master of your Court of Faculties, to subscribe this 

 petition with your hand, which your gracious respect I shall 

 thankfully acknowledge. 



Your Grace's humble petitioner, 



THOMAS LYDYAT. 



Tendered, July 2nd, 1634, and deferred till Michaelmas following. 



