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fore put on the saddle of your Lordships Commands, and admit the Bridle of your directions obediently returning back to those practises wherewith he was promoting Art, before he drudg'd, & sophisticated his head with matters less becoming the Muses. 'Twill be his onely way to bestow those Reliques of reason which the Agents of the Army, have left him upon the uses for which I think the whole was given him: If he had went on where he left off, Anno 1647. upon the Naturall and Mechanical History of Trades, I think his work ere this time might have been more glorious then his Survey, and the Books of th'one might deserve as magnificent a Repository as the others have gotten. And if your Lordship can finde that he has gotten any thing superfluous, enjoyn him retribution and moderation, by giving the world such a Map of Ireland, as may be expected from such a survey; And let him institute such an Academick Hospital in Dublin, for the study and administration of Medicine, as himself heretofore did both desire and describe. By this means he may heap Coals of fire upon the heads of his Enemies;
