Letter 0501

[fol. 64] Venice May 9th 1698 Dear Sr I was welcomed hither by yrs of 29th of March for wch I heartily thank you. I had designd to have writ to you from Hamburg & afterwards on ye road, but was in so continuall a hurryyt I lett it alone. I have bought for you some of ye books of yr Catalogua & hope to find more of them wn I come to Rome where we shall pass the summer. I have also bought about a dozen for Capt. Hatton to whom pray my service. my Brother writes me word of ye case of Books from Lagorn is arrived; you may dispose of them as you think fitt, only those books wch treat of plants I’ll part wth conditionally if I meet them again. I sent a small paiquet from Haulbury wch I suppose may be arriv’d by this, you’ll find some in it you want. The Boccones were shipp’d here abt 3 weeks sea the charges by a note sent to my Brother by ye merch’t that shipp’d them, I [fol. 65] have not yet seen it, I design no profit upon these only I think tis fitt I be paid ye insurance since I (?) ally risk Here is a collection of plats well dryed supposed on to be sold with anoble collection of books belinging to them; they were signe Forrior who putt out Ferranta Imswrati, I had a mind to have bought them but ye unhappy news of poor Tourneforts math has quite extinguished all such thoughts I had about alott from him or Saiposick in wch he sent in a ye same news you wrote of that he had made up a paequet of dry’d plants for me, but hearing by Dr Lisher of my coming out of Engl’d & design to return by France he had laid them by & yt at my coming to Paris I should be mastor of that I pleasd in his cabinet. I have ye news here from Dr Bochim, but am in hopes (the wch out any good reason) it may prove false. I have got for you Hortus Boscanus 4lo & have met wth Rauwolf & Cobunnas Phylobasanos for my self again I have bought me Hort Eyet & hear of a Flora aeneusis but am ^not^ yet sure whether tis to be purchas’d. Rivinus wants on by 4 planys to pibbs Libil 3 tone, he’s rich & resolv’d he (?) [fol. 65v] Padre Fabiggi of florance has put out Prosopopaid Botanial, dedicated to Rome, whose method he’d oats on. I have met with a (?) parcel of seeds from ye (something crossed out) ^Morea teat by ye Proveditoras Physitians wch ye Ardick names another by another hand from ye servant, Ile send them next week to Engl’d by a friend. they are washing ye garden at Padua very fiul so ye sight but take no care of gurmthing it wth plants, yt perhaps may follow. Singre Mane who was chase to days since Him bassed to Engl’d has a fine gard & is very curiouse, tis thought heell not come but pay his fuil Padre don Syliro left this place a week before I got hither, I shall find him at home on his way to Sicily. they tell me Padre Cupains Panply for Sicillian if in ye press yesterday ye wind being high ye here moxy of ye Aicention day was put of till Sunday, when that’s past, I shall ^have^ time to inform my self as Sr John Haskins quadrias & give him an aut of them in ye mean time my humble ^service^ to him wth ye rest of the Gent of th Clubb exaya in hopes thy scribble from Sr Yr most oblig’d humble srev’t W.Sherard