still shunning pudor rusticus, which undoes good natures, and practise an handsome garb and civil boldness which he that learneth not in France travaileth in vain. God's blessing be upon you. I rest your ever loveing father,

THо. BROWNE.

Corn is very dear; the best wheat 4 or 5 and forty shillings the comb, which is 4 bushells. The king of Portugal resigns up Tangere, a town on Africk side in Barbarie in the midle of the streights mouth, whether my Ld. of Peterborough is goeing with a regiment of foot and 2 troops of hors to take possession. All Parliment money must be brought in to the mint and coyned with the king's stamp and is not to pas corrant beyond December the first. You may stay your stomack with litle pastys some times in cold mornings, for I doubt sea larks will be too dear a collation and drawe too much wine down; be warie for Rochelle was a place of too much good fellowship and a very drinking town, as I observed when I was there, more than other parts of France.

Dr. Browne to his son Thomas.-Jan. 4, [1661-2.]

HONEST TOM,-I have not written unto you since November because I thought you had been removed from Rochelle, but now understanding you are still there, I send this by land with my good wishes and prayers unto God to bless you, and direct you in all your ways. So order affairs that when you remove, you may be accomodated with money when you come to Paris. There is a book cald les Antiquites de Paris which will direct you in many things, what to look after, that litle time you stay there, beside you may see many good new buildings, since you have been at Rochelle you might have seen the Isle of Rhe, and salt works if you had any opertunety. Serve God and honour him with a true sincere heart, your old friend Mr Bradford preacheth tomorrow at Xt church, as being his turn in the Combination, on the 30 of this month an humiliation is to be kept annually for ever by act of Parliament, in order to the expiation of God's judgments upon the nation for the horrid murther of King Charles the first, acted upon that day. I sent a box

unto you by a ship that went to Rochelle in the beginning of November. Your mother and all send their good wishes. I rest your loveing father, T. B. God bless thee. You may learn handsom songs and aires not by book but by the ear as you shall hear them sung.

Just as were closing up the box I now send you I received your letter and box, where by I see you are mindfull of us and are not idle. You may surely stay safely in Rochelle being strangers, but if you find good convenience I am as willing you should be any where elce, for where ere you are it will be best to move to Paris in the beginning of March, and there is noe citty considerable near Rochelle but Nantes, where you will be upon the Loir, on which many good cittys stand. Be guided herein by advice of friends. God bless you. By this time I hope you have received the former box I sent about a month agoe. I wish you had acquaintance with some Protestant in Nantes if you goe thither or might be recommended, for there are English also. Your ever loving father,

T. B.

No apology, it is hoped, need be offered for printing the following journal. It affords us a pleasant glimpse of the amusements of Norwich, at a time when it was the residence of a nobleman of the highest rank, who appears to have associated without reserve with its leading families, and to have made it his study to promote the gaieties of the place. Mr. Edward Browne's own participation in those gaieties is placed in most amusing contrast with his more professional occupations. His morning dissections and prescriptions, relieved by his evening parties,-the interest he evinces in the marvellous powders of Dr. de Veau,-his faith in a magical cure for the jaundice, and not least, the gravity of which he tells of "a serpent vomited by a woman," which "she had unfortunately burnt" before he arrived to see it;-all these afford abundant evidence, that, "though on pleasure bent," he was keen in his pursuit of knowledge, though too ready to believe all he heard, and much more than

he saw.

[MS. SLOAN. NO. 1906.]

JANUARY 1 [1663-4]. I was at Mr. Howard's, brother to the duke of Norfolk, who kept his Christmas this year at the duke's palace in Norwich, so magnificently as the like hath scarce been seen. They had dancing every night, and gave entertainments to all that would come; hee built up a roome on purpose to dance in, very large, and hung with the bravest hangings I ever saw; his candlesticks, snuffers, tongues, fireshovels, and andirons, were silver; a banquet was given every night after dancing; and three coaches were employed to fetch ladies every afternoon, the greatest of which would holde fourteen persons, and coste five hundred pound, without the harnasse, which cost six score more. have seen of his pictures which are admirable; hee hath prints and draughts done by most of the great masters' own hands. Stones and jewells, as onyxs, sardonyxes, jacinths, jaspers, amethists, &c. more and better than any prince in Europe. Ringes and seals, all manner of stones and limmings beyond compare. These things were most of them collected by the old earl of Arundel,4 who employed his agents in most places to buy him up rarities, but especially in Greece and Italy, where hee might probably meet with things of the greatest antiquity and curiosity.

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This Mr. Howard hath lately bought a piece of ground of Mr. Mingay, in Norwich, by the water side in Cunsford, which hee intends for a place of walking and recreation, having made already walkes round and crosse it, forty foot in bredth; if the quadrangle left be spacious enough hee intends the first of them for a bowling green, the third for a wildernesse, and the forth for a garden. These and the like noble things he performeth, and yet hath paid 100,000 pounds af his ancestors debts.

3 Henry, afterwards created Lord Howard of Castle Rising, subsequently Earl of Norwich and Earl Marshal of England, became, on the death of his brother Thomas, sixth Duke of Norfolk. He was the second son of Henry-Frederic, and grandson of Thomas the celebrated Earl of Arundel, whose magnificent collection of marbles he afterwards, at the suggestion of Evelyn, presented to the University of Oxford. At the same time he presented his grandfather's library, valued at 10,000. to the Royal Society.

4 Mr. Howard's grandfather.

5 Which was long afterwards called " My Lord's Gardens.”

January 2. I cut up a bull's heart and took out the bone, &c.

January 3. I heard Mr. Johnson preach at Christchurch, and Mr. Tenison at St. Luke's chappell, and took notice that the sun rose in an eliptical or oval figure, not round, the diameter was parallel to the horizon.

January 4. I went to dinner to Mr. Briggs, where there was some discourse of Drabitius'6 prophesy. I went to Mr. Howard's dancing at night; our greatest beautys were Mdm. Elizabeth Cradock, Eliz. Houghton, Ms. Philpot, Ms. Yallop; afterwards to the banquet, and so home. Sic transit gloria mundi!

January 5. Tuesday, I dined with Mr. Howard, where wee dranke out of pure golde, and had the music all the while, with the like, answerable to the grandeur of [so] noble a person this night I danc'd with him too.

January 6. I din'd at my aunt Bendish's, and made an end at Chrismas, at the duke's place, with dancing at night and a great banquet. His gates were opend, and such a number of people flock'd in, that all the beere they could set out in the streets could not divert the stream of the multitudes, till very late at night.

January 7. I opened a dog.

January 8. I received a letter from Sr. Horden, wherein hee wrote word of Mr. Craven's play, which was to bee. acted immediately after the Epiphany.

January 9. Mr. Osborne sent my father a calf, whereof I observed the knee joynt, and the neat articulation of the put bone which was here very perfect. I dissected another bull's heart; I took of the os scutiforme annulare and aritanoide of a bullock. This day Monsieur Buttet, which playes most admirably on the flagellet, bagpipe, and sea trumpet, a long three square instrument having but one string, came to

see mee.

January 10. Mr. Bradford preached at Christchurch.

January 11. This day being Mr. Henry Howard's birthday, wee danc'd at Mr. Howard's till 2 of the clock in the morning.

6 A Moravian Protestant minister, who declared himself inspired in 1638, and uttered various prophecies, which were printed in 1654. He was at length arrested, tried, condemned, and beheaded at Presburg, in 1671.

January 12. Cutting up a turkey's heart.

A munkey hath 36 teeth; 24 molares, 4 canini, and 8 in

cisores.

January 13. This day I met Mr. Howard at my uncle Bendish's, where he taught me to play at l'hombre, a Spanish game at cards.

January 14. A munkey hath fourteen ribs on each side, and hath clavicles.

Radzivil in his third epistle relates strange storys of diving in the river Nile.

There are one million of soelgers to guard the great wall of China, which extends from east to west three hundred leagues: author, Belli Tartarici Martin Martinius.

January 15. Wee gat a boare's bladder.

I took out the bones of the carpum in a munkey's forefoot, which were in number ten.

January 16. Wee had to dinner a weed fish, very like to an haddock. I went to Mr. Dye's, where I saw my lady Ogle and her daughter Ms Anne, an handsome young woman afterwards, with Mr. Alston, I went to see Mr. Howard's garden in Cunsford. At night I read two letters which my father had formerly received from Island, from Theodorus Jonas, minister of Hitterdale, which were to be sent to Gresham Colledge.

January 17. I waited upon my lady Ogle, Ms Windham, and Ms An. Ogle, to Christchurch; Mr. Scambler of Heigham preached: in the afternoon I heard Mr. Tofts at St. Michael's of Must Paul.8 The weather is extraordina rily warme for this season of the year, our January is just like April.

January 18. I saw Cornwall's collection of cuts, where I met with some masters which I had not seen before, as Quellinus, Hans Sebalde, Beham, Petrus Isaacs, Breemburg, Blocklandt, A. Diepenbeck.

January 20. Tonambaus would sweeten a whole pond sugar and cause it to bee drunk drye.

with

January 21. I shew'd Dr. de Veau about the town; I sup'd with him at the duke's palace, where he shewed a

7 Nicol. Christ. Radzivili Hierosolymitana Peregrinatio, iv. Epistolis comprehensa; fol. Brunsbergæ, 1601. Id. fol. Antwerp. 1614. 8 St. Michael ad Placita, or at Plea; see Blomfield.