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Vl PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. Although not unacquainted with the faet, that Mr. Abernethy had declined the honour of a Baronetcy, no allusion was made to it in the first edition, because I was not then in possession of such evidence as appeared to me necessary in relation to a circumstance that had not fallen within my own knowledge.

By the kindness of the family, I have been enabled to correet an error in regard to those who were present in his last moments; which, if in an historical pomt of view immaterial, is by no means so, with regard to the feelings of those whom it more immediately concerns.

G. M.

THE COURT YARD, ALBANY, woy. 14, 1953. �