[ 'minerall' deleted] that he was, as he well might be, indisposd to beleive so strange a thing, after he had confest the glass to have bin given him by an Excellent: Chymist in (his country) Switzerland['S' altered from 'J'] at the Relators earnest request gave him leave for his satisfaction to lay the piece of glass upon an Anvill and to strike 7 or 8. strokes with a hammer upon it, by which he found that tho. it was not malleable (at least in the state it then was) like neald silver, since it began to crack at the edges like silver that is over-hammerd, yet it did really stretch under the hammer growing more thin on the beaten part and having visible marks or impressions made on it by the edg of the hammer.

This day being invited to my L.Treasurers His Lordship desir'd me to conferre with an Experienc'd Chirurgeon & Lithotomist about a strange cure affirmed to have bin lately done of the stone in the Bladder by a Gentlewoman, whereupon [ 'I found th' deleted] finding the Chirurgion to be my Old Acquaintance Mr. Hollyer a man of unsuspected skill & credit, my Curiosity was the more raisd, and Hee in answer['d' at end of word deleted] to my Questions told me divers Circumstances which twere too long now here to mention wherof['of' altered from 'n'] the principall were these, That Hee well knew and perfectly remembred the <youth>[replacing 'patient'], on whom the cure was said to be done That Hee had formerly searcht him himself and found that hee had a stone in the Bladder, which hee then judg'd to be of the bigness of a walnut; the youth (about 16 or 17 years of age being likewise sadly afflicted with the [ 'sympt' deleted] pains of that tormenting disease: That being told that his patient had bin cured by a Medicin given him by one Mrs. Lawrence, hee beleivd it not