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Sir John Minnes

 

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[unknown] : [anatomy of the body]

'Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a fool, reading the Anatomy of the body to me, but so sillily as to the making of me understand anything that I was weary of him.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Mennes [or Minnes]      Print: Book

  

Samuel Pepys : [report on the case of Mr Carcasse]

'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Minnes      Manuscript: Unknown

 

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