. Memorials of the Canynges' family and their times: their claim to be regarded as the founders and restorers of Westbury college and Redcliffe church, critically examined: to which is added, inedited memoranda relating to Chatterton. 4 %/^ f 11. • ^ WESTurnv 169 loii, and Cannings ; and for llie most pail li\(dncere nnto tliem, at llii aforesaid AVestbiny, notnnlike for llic Sociotics sake of Norton and Can-nings or for some speciall IMessing lie met withtluM-e. Norton was, like Canynges, a native ofBristol; and he is spoken of as a celebrated al-cliymist in tlie reign of Edward I\
. Memorials of the Canynges' family and their times: their claim to be regarded as the founders and restorers of Westbury college and Redcliffe church, critically examined: to which is added, inedited memoranda relating to Chatterton. 4 %/^ f 11. • ^ WESTurnv 169 loii, and Cannings ; and for llie most pail li\(dncere nnto tliem, at llii aforesaid AVestbiny, notnnlike for llic Sociotics sake of Norton and Can-nings or for some speciall IMessing lie met withtluM-e. Norton was, like Canynges, a native ofBristol; and he is spoken of as a celebrated al-cliymist in tlie reign of Edward I\^ Fuller saystliat lie boasted liimself to be so great a proficientin chemistry, that lie learned it to perfection inforty days, when he was twenty-eight years *Tlieatriini corroborates this, and fmther ri 1 says, • Thomas Norton of Briseto,A purfet Master ye male bim trov\c; adding that he ^vas Alchymisla sua tonpore jwrif-issimus, and much more cnrions in the Studiesof Philosophy then others, yet they passe someundecent and abusive Censm-es upon him, ANithreference to this vaine and frivolous Science,as they are pleasd to tearme it. lie wrote * TheOrdinall of Alchimy, the following couplet inwhich is supposed to refer to Joa
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