[AA] A copy of this treatise is found as MS. Aubr. 25. It is in two parts:—(i) 55 pages, 'Musica, autore N. Mercatore, Holsato, 1673,' on which Aubrey notes, 'the original copie was lost at Paris, Jo. Aubrey'; (ii) 19 pages, 'Musica, autore N. Mercatore, Holsato, 1672,' with the note, 'sum Jo. Aubrii, R.S.S.'
Christopher Merret (1614/5-1695).
[224]Christopher Merret, M.D., of the College of Physicians, London, was borne in Winchcumbe in Gloucestershire, 1614, Feb. XVI about XI at night.
[225]Scripsit against the apothecaries, etc.
Thomas Merry (16— -1682).
[226]Thomas Merry[XV.], esq., was born at ... in Leicestershire. His father or grandfather was one of the clarkes of the green-cloth.
[XV.] Thomas Mariet, esq. <is> his kinsman: vide Surrey papers[227].
He was disciple to Sir Jonas Moore; became an excellent logist. He had donne all Euclid in a shorter and clearer manner than ever was yet donne, and particularly the tenth booke: I have seen it. But he never stitch't it up; and, after his death, when I came to enquire for it, it was disparted like Sibyllae folia, and severall of the papers lost. I got what I could find and brought them to the Royal Society, where they were committed to Mr. Paget to peruse, but they were so imperfect (he said) they were not fit to be printed. What is become of them now God knowes.