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38 rent approbation, performed matter of service worthy to be imbraced, I cannot but in all duty not onely acquaynt your honnour therewith, but yelde me redy to subject myselfe and it to your honorable disposition. And althoughe I can not so demonstrate the substance thereof as were fitt jour honnor should apprehend, I must yelde myselfe to your lordship's good conceipt, assuringe your honnour that the service shal be suche (might it please Her Majestie to make use of it,) as former tymes have not attayned unto. The effectes whereof I leave either to the judgment of some that your honnour shall appoint to surviewe the same, or to the information of the right honorable Sir William Knowles, Sir Henry Knyvett, Sir John Stanhopp, Mr. Thomas Knyvett, and others whoe have been alredy partakers of the same by viewe, humbly prayinge your honnour to accept myne endevors, and to contynue your honorable favours no further then I intend my desires to doe your lordship and your's myne uttermost service.

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To the Right Honorable the Lord Burleiffhe, Lord Highe Treasurer of England.

Ira 'venti, March 4th, 1611.

Sir, — I never loved huntinge till you furnished mee with dogs, I will henceforward prove another Nemrode; indeed I sought both arkes and tangents in the tables by proportion onlie; so, in a worde, you have made me see my faulte; in two or three more you have taughte me to amende it; onlie your curre dog Petiscus will not come into my sighte: but after a weekes vaine anger and points in seekinge for him, I found at last it was not the poore curres faulte, but Mr. Bills, that, sendinge me the second edition of the Origonometria, sente me onlie the tables; so as turninge the pages 75, 76, 78, 79 of the first edition (which is all I have) I found no such thinge as you sited, nor no such examples as you added. This is not the first time that Bill hath sent me imperfect copies; I pray let him understand so much. So you see I am defeated of the curre dog, savinge what I pick out of