Letter 2475

Bridges requests that Sloane lend the book ‘Lyceum Laboraneuse’ of 1649 to the bearer, Mr Keurick. The latter wants it for his friend Mr Tribram who is writing a book on the ‘Life of Hieronymus Vida Bp of Cremona’, which is to be published sometime soon. John Bridges (bap. 1666, d. 1724) was a county historian and solicitor. He worked in government and was known to possess a fine collection of books (A. E. Brown, ‘Bridges, John (bap. 1666, d. 1724)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3395, accessed 28 July 2014]).