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Lemma.

Si quEelibet duse quantitates bisecentur insequaliter; quae fiunt exquatuor producta e singulis partibus unius in singulas partes alte-rius, fequantur producto quod fit a totis in se ductis.

Hujus lemmatis non est e longinquo accersenda demonstratiocum sit proposifo idem cum primo secundi Euclidis quamvis gene-ralius enunciata, ad omnes species quantitatis comprehendas, etquasi reeiproca ejusdem repetitio. areX.

II. The Autobiography of Sir Samuel Morland , in a letter addressedto Archbishop Tenison. From the original manuscript preservedin the library at Lambeth Palace.

[MSS. Lambeth, 931, Orig.]

Sir,'—I am not ignorant of the various reports of the excessiveprodigalities and other sins of my youthful daies, that have now fora long time been spread abroad by the credulous and censoriousworld; especially since it has pleased Almighty God of late years, tovisit mee with manifold crosses and afflictions which have kept al-most as exact time and measure as formerly did Job’s messengers.Andfarr be it from mee to act the pharise’s part, or plead my inno-cence, in any other terms.

However I have thought it necessary, (being sensible of mymortality, and knowing well that I address myself to a true Natha-niel, in whom there is no guile!) to make you my confessor, and togive you an abbreviat of the history of some part and passages ofmy life, being willing to carry the rest into the grave with mee, byreason of the circumstances of the age wee live in, there to beeburied in oblivion.

Having received my education in Winchester Colledg, I was re-moved to the University of Cambridg, where having spent nine orten years, I was sollicited by some freinds to take upon mee theministry, for which, fearing I was not fitly qualified, I betook myselfto the study of the mathematicks. Soon after, an occasion present-ing itself, I accompanied an ambassador, (among several other gen-tlemen) sent by the protector to the queen of Sweden . At my re-turn, I was recommended to Secretary Thurlo for an assistant, andin a few months time after, sent by Cromwell as an envoy to theduke of Savoy in behalf of the protestants of the valleys of Pied-mont. And from thence to Geneva , as his resident, to manage theaffayrs of those poor people together with other forraign ministers,as likewise to transmitt the moneys collected in England for their