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 Pepys : nf x8J in., 16 leaves. 
 
 ' S r . W ra . Petty's Scheme of his intended 
 discourse touching the Scale of Creatures ' 
 (fol. 8 V ) ; beg. (fol. 5) ‘ Deare Couzin, I haue 
 sped soe well by pretending to say something 
 of the Scale of Creatures ' ; copied by Pepys. 
 Endorsed in pencil : ‘ Found among the 
 
 Pepys papers 1889' (cf. no. 7613). Foil. 
 1-4 and 9-end are blank. 
 
 Bought from Maggs Bros., 22 Sept., 1917, lot 
 2117, catal. 360. 
 
 After quoting other writers Petty says : “I 
 
 make two Scales of animate beings . . . the one 
 whose Topp is man, and whose bottome is the 
 Smallest and Simplest animall that man can dis- 
 cerne. And of the other Scale the maker of the 
 aforementioned world is the Top & man the 
 bottom [&c.] ”. In the rest of the letter he develops 
 the theme and applies it to religion. 
 
 
 FRO JVi 
 
 THE I. IB KAKY 
 OF 
 
 SIR WILLIAM OSLER , Bart. 
 
 OXFORD 
 
irfr. 2 . 210. 
 
 MAGGS BROS., iog, Strand, London, W.C. J 6 & 177 
 
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 Pepys’s Autograph MS. of Petty’s “Scale of Creatures.” 
 
 17 PEPYS (Samuel). Diarist. 
 
 His Autograph Transcript of Sir William Petty’s “ Scheme of his 
 intended discourse touching the Scale of Creatures .” Comprising 
 5? pp., folio. Clearly written. £5 5s 
 
 This important manuscript is entirely in the hand of Pepys. In it Sir 
 William Petty, the famous political economist, in the form of a very lengthy letter, 
 sets forth the scheme of an elaborate discourse on the scale of creatures. These 
 notes, of great interest in themselves, and most quaintly worded, are here written out 
 in full by the great diarist. A portion of the text reads as follows:— 
 
 “ 1°. That honest Hales hath said much of my Sense wizt that between God 
 and man there are holly Angelles , created Intelligences and Subtile materiall Beings , 
 as there are between man t and the Lowest Animall a multitude of intermediate 
 natures 
 
 “ 3°. Hales makes an affinity between metalls and vegetables and another 
 between vegetables and Animalls f and a third affinity between Animalls and man , a 
 fourth between man , and his subtile materiall Beings , a fifth between those Beings 
 and created Intelligences , a Sixth between those Intelligences , and the holy Angells , 
 and another between the Anglls. and the Creator him selfe. 
 
 “4°. He sayeth that the nature of man is very much worth enquiry , because 
 the brightness of God appeared in the Man Christ Jesus , and because man was made 
 after God's Image and doth faintly resemble God , as the Sun in a Bason of water 
 doth the Sun in the heavens 
 
 “I have alsoe sent you the English well, keeps very neare the Sense of the 
 Latin; at least neere enough. What / have done of this kind inust be looked upon 
 wth. kindnesse and Candor , otherwise you Spoile me for a Poet , soe as to meddle noe 
 more till 35 yeares hence , making my next pawse as long as my last." 
 
 
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