Extract from Fitzwilliam Notebook

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

Published online: October 2003

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<3r> ^{[Editorial Note 1]}

Before Whitsunday 1662.

Vsing the word (God) openly	1
Eating an apple at Thy house	2
Making a feather while on Thy day	3
Denying that I made it.	4
Making a mousetrap on Thy day	5
Contriving of the chimes on Thy day	6
Squirting water on Thy day	7
Making pies on Sunday night	8
Swimming in a kimnel on Thy day	9
Putting a pin in Iohn Keys hat on Thy day to pick him.	10
Carelessly hearing and committing many sermons	11
Refusing to go to the close at my mothers command.	12
Threatning my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them	13
Wishing death and hoping it to some	14
Striking many	15
Having uncleane thoughts words and actions and dreamese.	16
Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer	17
Denying that I did so	18
Denying a crossbow to my mother and grandmother though I knew of it	19
Setting my heart on money learning pleasure more than Thee	20
A relapse	21
A relapse	22
A breaking again of my covenant renued in the Lords Supper.	23
Punching my sister	24
Robbing my mothers box of plums and sugar	25
Calling Dorothy Rose a jade	26
Glutiny in my sickness.	27
Peevishness with my mother.	28
With my sister.	29
Falling out with the servants	30
Divers commissions of alle my duties	31
Idle discourse on Thy day and at other times	32
Not turning nearer to Thee for my affections	33
Not living according to my belief	34
Not loving Thee for Thy self.	35
Not loving Thee for Thy goodness to us	36
Not desiring Thy ordinances	38
Not long {longing} for Thee in {illeg}	39

<3v>

40	Fearing man above Thee
41	Vsing unlawful means to bring us out of distresses
42	Caring for worldly things more than God
43	Not craving a blessing from God on our honest endeavors.
44	Missing chapel.
45	Beating Arthur Storer.
46	Peevishness at Master Clarks for a piece of bread and butter.
47	Striving to cheat with a brass halfe crowne.
48	Twisting a cord on Sunday morning
49	Reading the history of the Christian champions on Sunday

<4v>

Since Whitsunday 1662

1.	Glutony
2.	Glutony
3.	Vsing Wilfords towel to spare my own
4	Negligence at the chapel.
5	Sermons at Saint Marys (4)
6	Lying about a louse
7	Denying my chamberfellow of the knowledge of him that took him for a sot.
8	Neglecting to pray 3
9	Helping Pettit to make his water watch at 12 of the clock on Saturday night

^{[Editorial Note 1]} This and the following two pages are written in Thomas Shelton's shorthand notation and were deciphered by R.S. Westfall in 'Short-Writing and the State of Newton's Conscience, 1662', Notes and Records of the Royal Society 18 (1963), 10-16.