In his Epistle to the Reader before his Trigonometrie:--

'but I am already sensible of the unfriendly dealings of some,

even of our own countreymen, who, when these tables were

printing and almost finished, came to the printing house and

not onely tooke a sufficient view of them there, but carried

away a president without the printer's leave, and have caused

them to be printed beyond sea, the impression or a great part

of it being already come over.

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