now is, knowes somewhat of it, and some other persons of honour yet alive. &c. I am, My Lord, Your very humble servant John Wallis. Transcribed (saith Dr. Smith) from the copy, which Dr. Wallis lent mee at Oxford 6 August 1698. Tho. Smith. In the Oxford Catalogue of MSS. (saith Dr. Smith also) in hyperoo Bodleiano, it is said there pag. [170. num. 3524.34.] that Dr. Wallis decy phered several of King Charles I. Letters, and that they are in the book of Cyphers, which hee gave to the Vniversity Library, (in the year 1653,) which is a great and scandalous slander. Num. XIII. Vide Præf §. XIII. Inscriptiones singulares hactenus inedita, HADRIANO BEVERLANDO collectore. Ad fidem Codicis MS. viri magnæ apud omnes litteratos auctoritatis HENRICI ALDRICHII, non ita pridem Edis Christi Decani. Mecum vero (de more suo) perquam humaniter communicavit vir pereruditus (sodulis noster è paucis jucundissimus, nam mihi cum eo amicitia conjunctissima fuit )CA RO |