Mr. N. told me he hoped I would give a Note under my hand of security for the Prince’s Money; this I knew was to oblige me to be his slave: I answered that I had, God be thanked, some estate of my own which I hoped to leave for my wife’s support, to her during her life, to my own Relations after; that therefore I would not cumber my own estate with imprests or securitys, but if they would please to take his Rl. Hs. moneys into their hands I would sign the workmen’s bill to them, whereby they would see if they were reasonable at the same time.
I was told I should have all the printed copys save what his R. H. should have to present to the Universitys.
And Mr. N. granted that since I refused to handle any of his R. H. money there was no need of securitys or Articles—Nevertheless——
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The preceding are all the memoranda by Mr. Flamsteed respecting himself: he breaks off with the word “Nevertheless.”
To conclude this article a fac-simile is added of Mr. Flamsteed’s autograph from his copy of “Streete’s Caroline Tables,” mentioned in the preceding memoir, and now in the possession of the Editor of the Every-Day Book. It is to a memorandum made in that book by Mr. Flamsteed, in these words:—
“The greatest declination of ye sun is not more yn 23°. 29′. 00 his horizontall parallax but 10 seconds; the semidiameters of ye Sunn in the Caroline tables less yn they ought to be by 12 seconds.”
