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he thought it worth fo much pains^ as hy a Poftfcrip in hh Letter^ 
to make a flight enquiry of it. The Letter C^hich was writ out of 
Kent^ and dated three days before J came to his Sons hands the very 
morning after the night in which the robbery was committed ; and when 
the Univerfity and City were both in a ferph^t inqueft of theThieves^ 
then did Mr. Wotton fiew his Fathers Letter^ by which fuch light 
was given of this work of darknefi^ that the five guilty perfons were 
prefently difcovered, and apprehended, 
48. AmongO: the unufual accidents attending men in their 
Lives^ we muft alfo reckon all unufual difeafes^ fuch as that of 
Mr. Evans Reftor of Heathy who had a Ranula under his tongue, 
wherein there bred a ffone^ I fuppofe e fanguine crafjo i£f terrefiri ; 
or as they call it, a Tartareous humor got together in the veins 
under the tongue^ fo hard and great that it almoft quite deprived 
/)iwofhis fpeech ; which he drew away with his own hand, and 
as he told me fent it to the Medicin School at Oxford • but upon 
fearch 1 could not find it, nor had the School-keeper ever: heard of 
any fuch matter : So that whoever he were that he fent it by, 
proved falfe both to him ^nd the Vniverfity ; which I the rather 
note, that people hereafter may take more care by whom they 
fend fuch matters. Of jufl: fuch another as this Uv, Lifter 
gives us an account in a Letter to his Grace the Arch-Bijhop of 
Tork"^-, cut from under the /owgr/e of zman^ and novv^ preferved 
in the Repofitory of the Royal Society^ which he chufes to call 
Lapis Atheromatis^ though the place of its birth made him allow 
the diftemper to be a Ranula : but for my part, though the Ranula 
be ain'ays a tumor^ and fomtimes perhaps of that fort they call 
Atheromata; yet the place giving the ^/i/^j/^ a peculiar name, I think 
I ought rather to call it Lapis RanuU^ from the place of its birth, 
and thofe only Lapides Atheromatis found in that tumor in other 
places of the body. 
49. To this may be added a large flone taken out of the bladder 
of one Skingley of Oxford^ weighing above a pound, and being 
ten inches round one way /ere, and full eleven the other ; prefer- 
ved, and now to be feen in the Medicin School, As alfo a Corn 
that grew on the Toe of one Sarney 2iWheel-wright^ of St. Al^ 
dates^m^m the City of Oxford, Annoi6'^<,. two inches long, 
which for the unufual figure and bignefs of it, I have caufed to 
^ Phiiofoph, Tianfaa. Numh.Zj,. 
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