eart. A monkey hath 36 teeth: 23
molares, 4 canini, and 8 incisores.

"Jan. 13th. This day I met Mr. Howard at my Uncle Bendish's, where
he taught me to play at _l'hombre_, a Spanish game at cards.

"Jan. 21st. I shewed Dr. De Veau about the town; I supped with him
at the Duke's palace, where he shewed a powder against agues, which
was to be given in white wine, to the quantity of three grains. He
related to me many things of the Duke of Norfolk, that lives at
Padua, _non compos mentis_, and of his travailes in France and Italy.

"Jan. 23rd. Don Francisco de Melo came from London, with Mr. Philip
Howard (third grandson of the Earl of Arundel), to visit his honour,
Mr. Henry Howard. I met them at Mr. Deyes the next day, in Madam
Windham's chamber.

"I boyled the right fore-foot of a monkey, and took out all the
bones, which I keep by me. In a put-bone, the unfortunate casts are
outward, the fortunate inward.

"Jan. 26th. I saw a little child in an ague, upon which Dr. De Veau
was to try his febrifuge powder; but the ague being but moderate, and
in the declension, it was thought too mean a disease to try the
efficacy of his extolled powder.

"Feb. 2nd. I saw cock-fighting at the White Horse, in St. Stephen's.

"Feb. 5th. I went to see a _serpent_, that a woman, living in St.
Gregory's church-yard, vomited up, but she had burnt it before I
came.

"Feb. 16th. I went to visit Mr. Edward Ward, an old man in a fever,
where Mrs. Anne Ward gave me my first fee, 10_s._

"Feb. 22nd. I set forward for my journey to London."

This quaint admixture of scientific research, pleasure-seeking, and
superstitious credulity, blended with intellectual enquiry, affords a
curious picture of the domestic and professional habits of a physician of
the seventeenth century. The father of the writer, the eminent Dr.
Thomas Browne, received the order of knighthood from his majesty, King
Charles II., on the occasion of his visiting the city in 1671, when he
dined in state at the New Hall (St. Andrew's); the same honour was
pressed upon the acceptance of the mayor, who, however, ventured to
decline the proffered dignity. In the reign of James II., we find record
of Henry, then Duke of Norfolk, riding into the market-place at the head
of 300 knights, to declare a free parliament, the mayor and sheriffs
meeting him there, and c