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    <pre style="white-space:pre-line"><code>a certain sum of gold as before you have made mention of, either by
sickness, or by any other misfortune or let which may happen: or that
you do dd. it justly a year, two, or three and perchance you die or the
fourth year be fully ended. It is possible if you make not a perfect
composition between the Queen majesty and you, that your executors
may be troubled and sued for the value of as much as you shall so leave
behind of your former promise, and all ounces of gold will rise to a great
sum of money?

                                  Master Charnock

I will endeavour myself what I may, to keep touch with my former
promise, which if I cannot fully accomplish according to my meaning,
either by sickness, death, or any kind of forward fortune: yet I desire the
Queen majesty to bear with me, and to accept my good will in that I may
easily bring to pass. For if it will rise to a more greater or higher sum
than my former promise doth extend, I can well vouchsafe it upon her
royal majesty, considering that by her highness my works were begun,
and also maintained, which otherwise I should never have brought it to
pass, while the frame of my body were moveable and this of mine own
voluntary free will, I will dd. into the mint, that which I shall be able
conveniently to make: and not that my promise shall be claimed as a due
debt, neither by my life, nor it after my death. But be you assured I will
do what I may, if I be not too much troubled in altering my works as by
some special commandment, from metal, to medicine, which I cannot do
both at the one time, and the one will be a great setter back of the other.

                                   The Oxford Man

You have fully answered me. And now I do remember the opinion of a
very old man, who told me long agone; how that many of the old cross
nobles, and the old royals, that their gold was made by art, as out of the
philosophersâ€™ stone, as far as ever he could learn And it I never heard,
nor it never read, that ever any king did set any philosopher a work in the
Tower wherefore, where might it be done.

                                  Master Charnock

It was wrought secretly in great and rich monasteries by men given to
great solitariness, who by daily practice and long continuance of time
that did attain unto it: wherewith they did enrich themselves with

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