(3) A quarto tract[1526] (the 'Propositions' occupy 3 pages, the 'Considerations,' 4 pages), entitled:—
'Three papers presented to the Royal Society against Dr. Wallis, together with considerations on Dr. Wallis his answers to them, by Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury; London, printed for the author and are to be had at the Green Dragon without Temple Bar: 1671.'>
With Mr. Hobbes's small tracts inscribed to the Royal Society came a letter offering that some of the small pieces of his might be published in the Transactions; which was not donne, through Mr. Oldenburgh's default.—MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 47v.
<At the end of MS. Aubr. 9 is a quarto tract of 14 pages, entitled:—
'Thomae Hobbesii Malmesburiensis vita, authore seipso[1527], Londini, typis, anno MDCLXXIX.'
The last two lines of it are:—
Octoginta annos complevi jam quatuorque
Et prope stans dictat Mors mihi, Ne metue.
On these Aubrey notes (MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 68v)—
'These two last verses Dr. Blackburne altered (because of qu[=a] in quatuor, long) in the copie printed with Mr. Hobbes's life in Latine, and some other alterations he made, but me thinkes the sense is not so brisque.'>
What did he write since he left London? Quaere <his> executor.—MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 22v.