4. Duplicate Proportion, 8vo., printed. [G.[650] 28, p. 5.]
5. Politique Arithmetique, MS. [vide[651] part 3, p. 2a: G. 28, 6.]
6. Politique Anatomie of Ireland, MS.
7. A treatise of building shippes, which he presented to the Royall Societie about 1661; which the lord Brounker was pleased to keepe to himselfe, and never returned it; a MS.
Observations on the Bills of Mortality[652] were really his.
Translation of ... Psalme in Latin hexameter, stitch't, folio, printed, London, 1677 (quaere[653]).
Since his death I have seen, in his closet, a great many tractatiuncli in MS.—e.g. Religio Christiana Puerilis; Via brevis ad Medicinam; An Essay to know or judge the Value of Landes; His owne life in Latin verse; De Connubiis; Severall Epigrammes and Verses by him; Of Mills; An Engine very usefull for raysing of water; cum multis aliis that have slipt out of my memorie. Memorandum: his 2 last printed tracts were comparisons or paralleling of London and Paris, stitcht, 8vo.
[654]I have heard Sir William say more than once, that he knew not that he was purblind till his master[LVIII.] (a master of a shippe) bade him climbe-up the rope ladder, and give notice when he espied such a steeple (somewhere upon the coast of England or France, I have forgot where), which was a land-marke for the avoyding of a shelfe; at last the master sawe it on the deck, and they fathom'd and found they were but ... foot water, wherupon (as I remember) his master drubb't him with a cord.
[LVIII.] He was first bound apprentice to a sea-captaine.