KiHKPATRicK — Charles Willoughby, M.D. 247 



Ash. I am sure if ye headship of Merton' College should fall in time he would 

 play yt game & sfcicke there but it is tedious -naitiiig for dead mens shooes and I 

 am of opinion he will have a care not to loose his friends and prefermt both at 

 once, his missing of Di- Ash whom he expected to have met by ye waterside may 

 perchance alter his measures. I am confident youi' Ldp has already seen Nova 

 Dioptvica- I am beholden to ye Author for a present of one Volume wch obliged 

 me to so much care in ye reading yt I have not yet finished it but finde it ye fullest 

 of Dioptricall learning of any piece I have yet seen on yt subject tis true he quotes 

 and seems to have consulted severall . . . my view wch makes me think . . . 

 besides ye method of calculations . . . ray and ye solution of all problems from 

 yt method ... his calculations he has been very industrious and truely 1 thinke 

 exact. I doe not hear yt George Toilet' will be here this year, his Nephew is 

 come over from Cambridge I have not yet seen him and therefore cannot say what 

 errand he conies on or what news he brings I am apt to thinke he intends him for 

 his Deputy in Mr Bonnells ofSce during his absence, the College proceeds next 

 Thursday to an examination for schoUerships and ye Wednesday following there 

 will be a sitting for fellowships but tis thought there will not enuf sit to fill all 

 vacancyes.' I hope my Ld ye Ld Liets* arrivall will bring yor Lop to Dublin 

 where I may return yor Lop ye persouall thanks of 



yor most obliged humble servt 



C : Willughby. 



(Addressed) " These ffor the Eight Eeverend fl'ather in God 

 Wm Lord Bp of Derry at Londonderry." 



(Endorsed) " May 10 Dor Willoughby." 



Willoughby does not seem to have taken an active share in the reconstitution 

 of the College of Physicians, which resulted in the granting of a new charter 

 to the College by William and Mary on December 16, 1692. In that charter 



' The Warden of Merton College, Oxford, at the time was Thomas Clayton, m.d., who 

 had been appointed in 1661. He was Regius Pi'ofessor of Physic at Oxford. He died in 

 1693, and was succeeded by Richard Lydall, M.D., who had been elected a Fellow as far 

 back as 1641. 



■ " 'Dioptvica Nova.' A Treatise on Dioptrics, in two parts. Wherein various effects 

 and appearances of spheric glasses, both convex and concave, simple and combined, in 

 telescopes and microscopes, together with their usefulness in many concerns of humane 

 life are explained. By William Molyneux, of Dublin, Esq., Fellow of the Royal Society. 

 Ex visibilibus invisibilia. London : Printed for Benj. Tooke, mdcxcii. 4to. 11.8, 

 pp. 301 & 43 Plates." 



William Molyneux was brother to Sir Thomas and father of Samuel Molyneux. 



^ George Toilet, a friend and correspondent of Archbishop King. He had been in 

 negotiation with James Bonnell for the purchase of the reversion of the office of 

 Accountant-General. At the outbreak of the revolution he had fled to England, and 

 had obtained a post in the Tower of London. His nephew, Marcus Toilet, had 

 graduated B.A. from Magdalen College, Cambridge, in 1691, and in 1692 he was elected 

 a scholar and admitted B.A. {ad eund.) in the University of Dublin. 



* There had been no election of Scholars or Fellows in Trinity College since 1688. In 

 1692 twenty-two Scholars were elected, and three Fellows — Peter Brown, afterwards 

 Provost ; Richard Mossum, afterwards Dean of Ossory ; and William Carr, who was 

 appointed Medicus. 



' Henry, Viscount Sydney, Lord Lieutenant, arrived in Leland on August 25, 1692, 

 and was sworn on September 4. 



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