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ed to us how his anceftors, within memory, 
have been accuftomed to perform certain 
férvices and folemnities at the corenations 
of our noble progenitors, kings of Eng- 
and, heretofcre; that is to fay, to be 
armed on the day of our coronation, and 
mounted on a charger, and, befide, to do 
and exercife all that appertains to the faid 
fervices, taking the accuftomed fees for 
each, We therefore, with the advice and 
affent of our Council, will and command 
you, that againit the day of our corona- 
ticn you prepare trappings and all other 
things much cafe ufval, and deliver them 
to the ‘aic Philip, in the manner deliveries 
have been heretofore made by the keepers 
of the wardrobe of our faid progeniters 
to his anceftors, and we will that thefe 
our letters be your warrant, and that due 
attention be paid tothem. Given, &c. the 
4th day of November, ia the 8th year of 
our reign, 
Similar letters (mutatis mutandis) have 
been dire&ted to the malter of our hore to 
make deliverance af a charger. And 
another letter to the fergeant of our ar- 
moury to deliver armour in manner as 
heretofore, &c. 
(Signed) Typtot 
H. Giouceftre Ef Pape 
W. London S$. Dunelm 
J. Ebor Cant’. Scrop. 
DR. WALLIS to MR. afterwards ABP. 
TENISON. 
Oxford, Nov. 30, 1680. 
SIR, 
T received your’s of November 25, and 
#pprove the defign. The Life you {peak of 
J have not feen; nor do I know that I 
ever faw the man*. Of his writings I 
have read very little, fave what relates to 
mathematics: By that I find him to have 
been of a bold daring fancy (to venture at 
any thing); but he wanie! judgment to un- 
devitand the confequeace of an argument, 
and to fpeak confittently with himfelt ; 
whereby his argumentations, which he 
pretends to be demontiration, are very 
often but weak and inccherent difecurfés, 
and deftruGion in one part of what is faid 
in another, fometimes within the compafs 
e: the fame page cr leaf. This is more 
convincingly evidert (and more unpardon- 
able) in mathematics, than ia other dif- 
courte, which are things capable of co- 
gent demonttrations, and fo evident, that 
(though a good mathematician may be 
iubject to commit an error, yet) one who 
un ‘erfands but litt'e of ir, cannot but tee 
2 fault, when it is fhewed him. For (they 
*® Mr. Hebbes, 
Extras from the Port-folia of a Man of Letters. * (Dec. 15. 
be his own words, Leviathan, part F, 
ch. 5. p. 21) Who is fa fiupid as both te 
mifiake ia geometry, and aljo to perfift in 1% 
wwhen another deteéis bis errors to bim? 
Now when fo many hundred paralogifms 
and falle propofitions have been fhewed 
him in his Mathematics, by the!e who have 
written againtt him, and that foevidently, 
that no. one mathematician at home cr 
abroad (no not thofe of his intimate friends) 
have been found to jud@ify him in any one 
of them, which makes him fomewhere fay 
of himtclf, Aut ego felus infanio aut folus 
non injanio ; he hath been yet fo fupid (to 
ule bis word) as to perff? in them, to re- 
reat and defend them; particularly he 
hath firit and jaft given us near twenty 
quadratures ef the circle, of which fome 
few, though falfe, have been coincident 
(which therefore I repute for the fame, 
ouly differently difguiled) but more than 
a dozen of them are fuch, as no twoof 
them are confiffent, and yet he would have 
them thought to be all true. Now either 
he thought fo himfelf (and then you mu 
take him to be a perfoa of a very fhaliow 
capacity, and not fuch a man of reafon as 
he would be thought to be) ar e/fe know- 
ing them to be fa'fe was obffinately re- 
folved (notwithftanding) to maintain them 
as true; and he muft then bea perf: nof 1.0 
faith.or hovefty. And if he argue at this 
rate in mathematics, what are we to ex- 
pe& in his oiher difcourfes? 
Nor am I the firft who bave taken no- 
tice of his incoherent way of difcourfe and 
logical inferences. Mr. Boyle, in -his 
Examen af Mr. Hobbess Dialogus Phyf- 
cus de Natura Aéris, p. 15, and I think 
elfewhere, though Ido rot remember the 
place, refers to Dr. Ward’s Differtatio iz 
Philojophiam . Hotbianam, p. 
vouche:h Deg Cartes to the fame ourpofe. 
Nempe hac eff quod alicubi admiratus eft 
Magnus Cartefius, nufguam eum five va- 
rum frve jalfum pofucrit, recte aliquid ex 
fuppofiticnibus ratiocinando 
think the place in Cartes is in his Refpon- 
fienes ad quartas Objectiones (at leatt to 
tholz objections which are Mr. Hobbes’s.) 
All which fhew that he was not a man of 
trong reafon;, but only of a bod daring 
fancy, which, with his magnificent way of 
fpeaking, did (not convince but) pleafe 
thofe who loved to be atheifts, and were 
glad to hea¥ any body dare boldly to. fay 
what they wifbed to be true; like people 
that love to be flattered, who are well pleaf- 
ec to hear themfelves commended, even 
when they know what is faid to be falfe. 
At leat guod volumus, facile ae 
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