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his father that he looked for advice in his 

 hospital practice and in the preparation of his 

 lectures. Browne was proud of his adopted 

 county, a feeling evidently shared by his son, 

 and I trust I may be pardoned for quoting the 

 concluding passage of the latter's account of a 

 tour into Derbyshire, wherein he expresses a 

 sentiment which survives with undiminished 

 force in the breast of many a Norfolk man in 

 the present day. There is a very interesting 

 account of his crossing the Wash on leaving 

 Lynn for Boston, but on his return to Norwich 

 in September, 1662, he thus concludes his 

 journal : " Give me leave to say this much : 

 let any stranger find mee out so pleasant a 

 country, such good way [roads], large heath, 

 three such places as Norwich, Yar [Yarmouth] 

 and Lin [Lynn], in any county of England, and 

 I'll bee once again a vagabond to visit them." 



The manuscripts of which the following 

 selection forms a part are contained, with a 

 few exceptions to be named hereafter, in the 

 Sloane Collection in the Library of the British 

 Museum, consisting of nearly one hundred 

 volumes, numbered 1825 to 1923 both inclusive. 

 A catalogue is given by Simon Wilkin* 



* Simon tVtlitn {lygo-lSSz), the able editor of Sir Thomas Browne's 

 collected works, was born at Costessey near Norwich, in the year 1790. 



