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THE

PREFACE

TO THE Reverend Dr. Hickes.

SIR,

after the Publication of the Homily on St. Gregory, I was engaged by the Importunity of my Friends, to make Visit to Canterbury, as well to enjoy the Converdation of my Friends and Relations there, as for that Benefit which I hoped to receive from Change of Air, and freer Breathing, which is the usual Expectation of those, who are used to a sedentary Life and Confinement in the great City, and which renders such an Excursion