An Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F. R. S; to Which Is Subjoined the Private Correspondence Between King Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... scribing anything for my purpose out of his library, I have a young kinsman, (a clerk to Mr. Musgrave at the tower), who will wait on him to that purpose. Suffer me now, Sir, to own another obligation to you (wherein I am a sharer with the public) for your Acetaria, which, with submission, I think you have miscalled an appendix to your Calendarium. Tou give it the precedence, and very justly, in your royal plan; the several chapters whereof I shall much long to see published, for though an ingenious countryman of mine, Mr. Baker, seems dissatisfied with Mr. 'Wotton's making agriculture and gardening parts of liberal knowledge, I am as much an admirer of all the branches of natural as civil history, and the former has as many of my spare hours in the summer, as the latter has in the winter. There is one passage (page 65) wherein I think myself nearly concerned to request your farther information. The French Acetosella, with the round leaf, grows (you say) plentifully in the north of England. Tou distinguish this from the Roman Oxalis, wherewith Dr. Morison had made our Acetosa Eboracensis (as he calls it) to be nearly of a kind. But Mr. Bay has rightly observed that ours is not Casp. Banhinus's Rotundifolia Sbrtensis (which is the same with the Eoman Oxalis), but his Seutata repens. Besides this I know of no kind of sorrel that is so peculiar to the northern parts of this kingdom as your expression seems to intimate, nor can this, which is no trefoil, be reckoned among any of the Acetosella. Tou will pardon this impertinence in, Sir, Tour obliged humble servant, Will. Nicoison. Archdeacon Nicolson to John Evelyn. Salield, 9th May, 1701. HoNOTJEED SlE, About ten days ago I received your two MSS., for which I now return my most humble...