| Description Of Item | Notes on the persian king Cyrus the Great, saying that if he ‘had not been elected King amonst Shepherds it may be he had not reigned over the Persians: but the very title which was given him by rurall swaines, Enforced him to attempt further’.
Copied from Richard Brathwaite, History surveyed in a brief epitomy, or, A nursery for gentry comprised in an intermixt discourse upon historicall and poeticall relations: wherein is much variety of discourse and modest delight (1651).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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