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British Library MS. Sloane 684.
Paper. Quarto. 23 folios. 16th Century.
The breviary of natural philosophy, an astrological treatise in verse, composed in 1674 by Thomas Charnock.
Begins:
'The booke speaketh.
Anno Domini a thousand, v. hundreryth, fyftye and vii.,
Alle lawde and prease be unto God in heaven,
Being the friste Frydaye of the new yere
I was then begonn, as hereafter shalle appere.'
[This poem was printed in Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum, p.291, but the present copy is much fuller, and a seventh chapter is added, which is not in the printed text.]