Morton, Charles (1627-1698), and others

(1) A system of heraldry.

(2) To ... Candidates for the Ministry under the present discourageing circumstances.

(3) Power (H.) Historia physico-anatomica. Cum analogia physico-chymica. 1666. Five tracts copied out by William Hocker.

(4) Of the Souls of Brutes. Per C. M.

(5) An extract of a letter from London to his friends in the Country concerning the improvement of the County of Cornwall.

The first tract is illustrated (pp. 4-11) with small pen-drawings of shields, etc.

On p. 26 of the work by Power are 5 pen-drawings of chemical furnaces. The tracts are dated as follows: 'Finitum 23rd August 1683' (1st); 'Written the 14th IOber. 1682 per W.H.' (2nd); 'Finitum 24th July, 1684' (4th); 'Transcriptum 14° die Decembris Anno Domini 1686 per Wm. Hocker' (5th). The full title of the tract by Henry Power [1623-1668] is 'Historia physico-anatomica, cum analogia physico-chymica de motu chyli, sanguinis, liquoris nervosi, aquae lymphaductuum. Drawn up for the satisfaction of the Lord De La Mer[e]. A.D. 1666'. It also deals with 'physico-chymicall operations.' A copy of this is No. 496 of the Sloane MSS. in the British Museum [Ayscough's Catalogue, p. 576].

Morton's paper on Cornwall was published in the Philosophical Transactions, 1675, Vol. X, pp. 293-6. In this MS., the tract is stated to be 'Written by C. M'. Cornub[iensis]'.

The first tract is anonymous, but is probably also by Morton, as the name occurs on p. 14 written in capital letters.

Signature of John Young 1720 on the first leaf, and on the last page of the last tract. Produced in London.