Produced by Jonathan Ingram, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) Transcriber's Note The role of marginal notes differs from text to text in this collection. Please see the Transcriber's Notes for how they are rendered in this text version. Superscripted letters are indicated with a carat '^' as in 'K^t'. Where multiple characters are superscripted, { } are used, as in 'M^{rs.}' Italics are used freely, and have been rendered using _underscore_ characters. Bold text is indicated as '=bold='. A super-imposed bar spanning several letters, which is a conventional mode of abbreviation, is denoted with '==' (eg. 'a==a'). Please consult the more detailed notes at the end of this text. THE ENGLISH LIBRARY THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE VOLUME III THE WORKS OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE Edited by CHARLES SAYLE VOLUME III EDINBURGH JOHN GRANT 1907 PREFATORY NOTE In concluding the present edition of Sir Thomas Browne's works, attention may be drawn to the reprint of the _Hydriotaphia_, from the first edition of 1658. The copy collated was the one preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. In this, in addition to the corrections made at the time of publication on the printed label attached, there are a few others made by a contemporary hand, which deserve consideration. Among these is the excision of a sentence hitherto preserved in the text, and now relegated to the margin (p. 205). If further sanction were needed for the change indicated, it may be gathered from the inscription on the title-page, 'Ex dono Auctoris.' The text of the _Christian Morals_ of 1716 has been collated with the copy in the same Library. For the account of Birds and Fishes found in Norfolk (pp. 513-539), Professor Alfred Newton generously placed his annotated copy at the disposal of the editor. As those actual pages were in the press, Professor Newton passed away, and Death has deprived us of the pleasure of placing this volume in his hands. In this edition Professor Newton's readings have been in the main followed, with the additional help of the valuable recension, published by Mr. Thomas Southwell of Norwich, in 1902, to which every serious student of this treatise must always refer. For further assistance in questions of identification, I am again indebted to the kindness of Mr. W. Aldis Wright; and for one correction to Mr. A. R. Waller.