A manuscript containing these tracts: 1. Take earth of earth earths mother with some explication. 2. A short worke and true-of halfe a sheet. 3. Cantilena Ripley, de L. Phil. seu de phœnice. 4. Verbum abbreviatum Rogeri Bacon a Rajmundo Galfrido explicatum-above a sheet. 5. The great worke or great Elixir of Ripley ad Solem et Lunam, with an accurtation or shortning of the great work-containing 2 sheets. 6. A Letter of Ripley, sent to a friend, subscribed by George Ripley, ch. of Bridlington, farmer and curate of F...balbergh. 7. The easiest way in practising the Philosopher's stone a sheet and half. 8. Philossium and medulla, translated out of Latin by George Higins. 9. A Concordance of the Sayings of Guido and Raymund. X. The worke of Dickinson-about a hundred verses. An ancient manuscript of Nortons ordinall. Dunstanus Epus Cantuariensis de Lapide philos-a small manuscript. Theriaca divina Benedicti MS. Lat. Anonym. A Manuscript entitled Investigation of causes, writt by a person of these parts about 50 yeares agoe. A theoreticall 3 This is MS. Sloan. 1842.-Catalogue of Sir Thomas Browne's MSS. No. 6, 4to. vol. iv, 463, &c. 4 Very illegible in MS. On reference to the MS. Sloan. 1842, I find it is thus: "Fox Bulburg Churche. 1460 vel 1476. 5 MS Sloan. 1873.-Catalogue of Browne' MSS. No. 39, 4to. vol. iv, p. 463, &c. 6 This may be MS. Sloan. No. 3757, fol. 40; or No. 1255, art. 2, fol. 12C:- probably the latter. 7 MS. Sloan. l857.-Catalogue of Browne's MSS. No. 18, 4to. vol. iv, p. 463, &c. 1674.] MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE. 465 piece, but relating to the Herm. philosophic and worke. An originall, and I thinck there is noe coppy of it- about 4 sheets. Ripleys emblematicall or hieroglyphicall scrowle in parchment, about 7 yards long, with many verses, somewhat differing from those in your first part next Ripleys vision. Two small pieces of Garlandus Anglus, Latin and printed. Dastini Speculum philosoph. MS. Lat. Benjamin Locks picklock unto Ripleys castle, prose and verse -about 4 or 5 sheets, MS. To my worthy and honord freind, Elias Ashmole, Esqr. in the Middle Temple, these, London. (The above direction is on the back of the latter, (ff. 153, 156,) within which is enclosed a half sheet folded in quarto,(ff. 154-5, containing the list of MSS. Close to the direction is preserved a small seal of arms, impressed in red wax.)