LETTERS ON BOIBNTIP1I < TS. |( 1 



about parabolirall draughts. Il' you please you 



keep a \\eek or more before the press, hut I sj,;,|| , 



that it sliall attend your leisure. I do not find I I, 



in your lust to proceed to the \ \ i \. probl : and then-lore Imp,- 



to sec your directions. I fear you ,i:i\e ymirself'e tin- tmnUe 



to copy verbatim what you send inc. I conceiv yon mi^ht 



adventure to send me your only accurate draughts, and 



yourselfe of that labour, keeping the notions by you po--il)l\ 



in some other method. Bi^in^ yonr pardon and eontinn- 



anee of undeserved favours, I commit you to God's care and 



protection. 



Yours ever to honour and serve you, 



THO: BRANCKER. 



CHRISTOPHER SAWTELL TO WILLIAM LILLY. 



[MS. Ashm. Oxon. 423, Orig.J 



Waymouth, August 6th, 1666. 



Mr. Lilly, I wrote to you the 18th of the former month 

 concerning the wonderfull motion of the tide as it was care- 

 fully here observed for 4 hours time, viz. July 17th, from 

 about 10 in the morning untill 2 in the afternoone. I also 

 wrote the same to the Post-office in London ; notwithstand- 

 ing which, it was put into the printed intelligence in one 

 manner, and in the Gazette in another manner, and neyther 

 of them aneere the truth, and for what eyther reason or po- 

 licie I cannot imagine, but made me to be derided here, until 

 I shewed a coppy to many of what I wrote them to London ; 

 since which they reply if they print one false that is so won- 

 derfull, how many us believe the rest, &c. Sir, I intreated 

 you by my letter to have given me a few lines in answer that 

 you had received mine, but to this morning I have not re- 

 ceived any, which makes me doubt that you have not received 

 mine, or else that you doubted the truth, or that it was not 

 of any worth. If it came not to your hand, pray be pleased 

 by a few lines to give me notice and I shall give you (if you 

 desire it) a very true, sure, and punctuall account of it, or in 

 any particular thing or accident that you shall require of it. 

 If you doubted the truth Fll assure you that to what I wrote 

 you ther is not a title false, I am very confident, viz. that the 

 sea did ebb and flow seven times in four hours time ; \\ith 

 the rest of particulars writen you, to which a clowde. as it 

 were, of witnesses will appeare ; that there were many more 



