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44 volumes, comprising some of the works of the best authors in theology, biography, poetry, and history. In that seclusion he reflected, read, and wrote.

After Lay's death the principal part of his manuscripts were preserved by the gentleman with whom he lived, but it is sincerely to be lamented that those relics fell into the hands of the British, during the revolutionary war, who, it is supposed, destroyed them. His books were disposed of at the sale of his effects. Two of these volumes have, after considerable search, been lately discovered. They contain numerous marginal annotations, from which, for want of better sources whence to derive a knowledge of the reflections of this christian philosopher, a few of his most interesting remarks are selected.

In a folio edition of "Plutarch's Lives" London, 1608, are the following notes.—In the account of the Lacedemonian songs and