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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54597	Fleta minor the laws of art and nature, in knowing, judging, assaying, fining, refining and inlarging the bodies of confin'd metals : in two parts : the first contains assays of Lazarus Erckern, chief prover, or assay-master general of the empire of Germany, in V. books, orinally written by him in the Teutonick language and now translated into English ; the second contains essays on metallick words, as a dictionary to many pleasing discourses, by Sir John Pettus ... ; illustrated with 44 sculptures.; Beschreibung aller fürnemisten mineralishcen Ertzt- und Berckwercksarten. English	Ercker, Lazarus, d. 1594.; Pettus, John, Sir, 1613-1690.	1683 (1683)	Wing P1906; ESTC R5570	316,186	522

Books to be Translated about Ten years since some eminent persons did perswade me like the Story in Bocalino not to publish it lest the Common sort of People should make an ill use of its impartments alledging That it was not well Translated whereupon I betook my self to the German Language and in a short time I was so much Master of it That with the help of a German here I did indeed find many Errors and Corrected them which answers one Objection and I have Printed such a convenient Number as may answer the other And yet I am not altogether satisfied therein for what hath made Arts and Sciences flourish more in the time of King Charles the First and now in His Majesties Reign than their Majesties encouragements to the free communication of such things as had many Ages before lain secret so that we hope that all Pancerollus his lost things may in a short time be found again We punish our selves by fixing and disputing on the Theorems of antient Writers and thereby making things to be Diabolical which are only Divine Favours shewn us by Natural Agents so as for want of knowing the true Practicks Experiments they are divulged either by umbraging Sophistications or concealed under the Name of Philosophical Secrets which no doubt but GOD intends for a publick and common Good and this ill Fortune befell the Vnguentum Armarium as a piece of Witchcraft 'till our Eyes were inlightned and in many other things which were they clearly communicated such Superstructures would be raised from them as might arive us to a kind of Angelical Knowledg in this World and make us more apprehensive of our Happiness in the next and therefore it shall be my study to unfold the Metaphysical Notions of this SCIENCE by Practicks especially about the Philosophers Stone which Study I value only for its fine Pursuits and Products of Experiments but more because the Laborers for it are by their own Affirmations obliged to a strict and religious Life I shall trouble you no further at this time but with my humble and hearty Thanks and so subscribe my self My Lords and Gentlemen Your most humble Servant JOHN PETTUS To my Worthy Friend Richard Manlove Esq Warden of the Fleet. SIR I Am here a confined Person for my being too kind to others and too unjust to my self and for not doing what was not in my Power to perform by wanting the Justice of my Debtors whereby I am rather a Prisoner to them than to my Creditors Yet I can dispense with all these because they have occasioned my happiness in your Acquaintance and my contenting Retirement in this place which was once a Palace after a Staple of Comerce and long since and still a Repository of our Laws And now like Homers Iliads in a Nut-shell here are all sorts of Degrees from Prince to Peasant all sorts of Professions from the Doctor to the Novice all sorts of Trades and Manufactures and all sorts of Virtues but your Prudence doth still suppress the Vices And I ingeniously confess that by yours your Ladies constant Kindness Indulgence to my declining years I have made it a Colledge of Learning and so may other Gentlemen do if they please it being so qualified that in an hours time there is no Art or Science wherein one may not be punctually instructed Now Those that think themselves Prisoners to you are much mistaken for they are Prisoners to the LAWS and may make themselves Students of All-Souls in Le Fleet of which you are Warden A Guardian-ship very needful for the People as a Completion of JVSTICE in point of Restraints For besides many other wise Considerations they are good for Cooling the Animosities between Creditors and Debtors and between the LAWS and Contemners of them and thereby prevents the Effusion of Blood which hath often hapned and for Curing the sullen and contemptuous Disposition of others to their Superiours For I can truly say That by my patient Submission to them and my Misfortunes being prepared with my 14 months Imprisonment in Windsor Castle under the late usurped Power I do now with more Satisfaction to my self undergo this under a Legal Power and thereby I affirm That no Gentleman hath receiv'd greater Respects from you than my self and therefore I take this Occasion to make my publick Acknowledgments that it may be a Guid to other mens Contentments for as I have observ'd That as you never were out Hector'd by Affronts or Resistances so you were never out-done by Civilities or Compliableness to your Methods As to the first I never gave Occasion and as to the other my studious temper complying with your Love to Learning have so won on your good Disposition that I must acknowledg to my honored Subscribers and others that had it not been for your Incouragement and particular Assistance with your purse though with some Inconveniencies to your own Occasions I could not have finished this Book as now I have done and therefore as one Memorial of your kindness I have given it the name of FLETA and in my Picture minted the word insletatus from this Place I could with delight to my self and others spend more time on this Subject but I must end with this request That as you have given House-room here to the whole Impression of my Books so you will please in respect my person is restrain'd in Execution of the Laws to encourage it in its Travels abroad and so not doubting of your Favour I shall conclude with Ovid then in my present Condition but I will not punish my self with his Tristibus's Parve nec invideo sine me Liber ibis in Aulam Vrbem Which I have thus Englisht Go little Book leave me but make report Who treats thee best the City or the Court. However you shall have the continuing thanks of Your Obliged Friend and Servant JOHN PETTUS To the Courteous READER I Think fit before you read this Book to instruct you in the Method of it so as you may read the whole or part as your leisure serves 1. It is divided into two parts as the Title mentions viz. Erckern's V. Books and my Dictionary 2. Whereas the Original of Erckern's 5 Books had no Numeral distinction of Chapters and Sections I have divided them into Chapters and Sections and Printed them before the Five Books with numeral referrences to their chapters where they are contain'd 3. Whereas the Sculptures had only Literal and no Numeral Directions of their Contents I have in the second part of the Contents before the Five Books Printed the Contents of the Sculptures with references to the Pages where they may be seen and read 4. Whereas the Original of Erckern's 5 Books hath no Coma's Colons Periods Parenthesis or Interrogatory Points pertinent to the distinction of Words or Sentences which are also wanting in many German Books I have comply'd them to our way of Orthography which was no little trouble and therefore if the Reader