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Not in Hooke's hand. Endorsements on single sheet: 'XVI' and 'Philosophicall Scribbles'.

Endorsed with date and note, 'His Hypothesis about the Attraction & moving of the Heavenly Bodies'.

Poem addressed to Queen Catherine of Braganza on the occasion of the visit by Catherine and Charles II to Trinity to view the structure of the Wren Library, then being erected. Title as it appears is 'To the Queen spoken by Mr Duke in the new Court by ye Liberary [sic]'. First line, 'You equall partner in the Royall bed...'

'A Journal of a voyage from England to Bantam [Java] and thence to Tunquin in the shipp called the Tunquin merchant in the service of the Honble East India Company kept by Robert Knox'

Signed 'Samuel Blithe'.

Endorsed 'Being (I suppose) copies by Dr Hook[e], they relating to him. W.D.... Proof of his right to the Hypothesis of the Celestial motions &c'.

Draft reply by Hooke, dated 30 Jul. 1687, written at end of Waller's letter. Endorsement probably in William Derham's hand.

Draft reply by Hooke, dated 20 Aug. 1687, written at end of Waller's letter. Endorsement probably in William Derham's hand.

Endorsement probably in William Derham's hand.

On the fly-leaf are some lines of poetry partly pencilled and then inked over, partly in ink originally. On the fly-leaves at the other end are further fragments in ink and pencil, and one is headed: ‘Plan of a Poem. The Seasons. | Spring. The Visitation, &c.’ Other verses in pencil are on blank pages in the body of the volume, which consists of botanical notes, predominantly on fungi. At the other end is the date 23 Sept. 1793.

MS poem in Latin signed at end "[J.] Hill, Trin: Coll, Cantab: 1702". A copy[?], not in Thomas Hill's hand.

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