I.KTTKFJS ON ICIENTIPI4 



leaves umnentioned. Therefore my only addresse is to 

 hoping to liud as inticli \\ ilhn^nessr to roininimi. 

 to evince the certainty of this secret to 



The most eniraLivd of your friemU, 



HKXKY Pov. 

 K. Coll. Cambrid-e, 



Feb. 10, 1G47. 



PS. Sir, this enclosed is from a worthy friend of myne 

 who hath made bold upon my incitement to enwrappe a f< -\\ 

 lines to you, if you please to repay us both but \vith one 

 single answer, it will not only evince us of your faire accept- 

 ance of them, but shall also challenge a double gratnlatory 

 as a due debt, in counterpoise and recompence thereof. 



WILLIAM OUGHTRED TO MR. GREATORIX. 



[MS. Ashm. 394.] 



Aldbury, Dec. 19th, Hl.vj. 



Good Mr. Greatorix, Give leave to intreate you to re- 

 member my service to my good friend Mr. Lilly, and to 

 enquire of him and other astronomers about London, what 

 they have observed concerning a comet, stella crinita non 

 caudata, now and for 11 nightes together as often as the skie 

 was cleere, in manner as I shall describe. Upon Thursday, 

 Dec: 9th, I first saw it, neere the East, about 7 of the clock 

 at night, a round dim light, about 4 degrees of estimacioun 

 from the head of the staire under the foote of Orion westward ; 

 the diameter of it seemed to be 16 inches; upon Saturday 

 at 11 at night it was ascended nere the shild of Oiion, 

 almost as a right line through both the shoulders, so that the 

 comet and they were about an equall distance asunder; 

 then it went upward through the nose of the bull, till upon 

 Tuesday night it was close, but a very small deale westward 

 to the lowest star of the Pleiades. Upon Wednesday night 

 it was come almost as high as the foote of Perseus, and upon 

 Thursday night it was scene above the win; of that foote of 

 Perseus westward higher then in a right line, through the 

 star in that foote and the wing, and almost at their distance. 

 The present Sunday, while I am writing, it is conic within 

 lesse than a degree of Gorgon's eye, and | a decree to tin- 

 east side. The motoun decresethe nightly, and so doth the 

 diameter, especially for these latter dayes, being no\\ become 

 but in shew not past halfc so bi<r as at the tiixt appearance. 



