together with A LETTER TO A FRIEND ON THE DEATH OF HIS INTIMATE FRIEND and CHRISTIAN MORALS By SIR THOMAS BROWNE KT. M.D. EDITED BY HENRY GARDINER M.A. T is not eafy to determine with accuracy at what period Sir Thomas Browne compofed his Religio Medici: but the greatest weight of teftimony is in favour of the fuppofition, that it was between the years 1633-35, while he was refiding at Shipden Hall, near Halifax in Yorkshire, after his return from his travels, and previous to fixing his refidence, as a Physician, at Norwich. It was very likely that he would employ a portion of his leisure time, abundant enough no doubt at the commencement of his profeffional career, in thus putting together the impreffions which had been made on his mind by foreign travel, and the re |