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 I was, I confes, omewhat atonihed, when I firt heard of your, it being an honour which I little expected at your hands; for I concluded that you would not condecend to rank o mean a performance as mine amongt thoe noble and hining volumes, which have experienced the ame and wore everity from your learned Predeceors; it would be needles to recollect intances of this in former ages, or to put you in mind of thoe glorious doctrines of , which were, together with their authors, delivered over to Satan by your famous.

But I cannot help oberving to you, that Books of another kind have ometimes found no better reception at ; particularly the late famous Antony Wood's Athenæ, and the preent laborious Mr. Hearne's edition of Camden's Elizabeth; the former of which (though it was profeedly written in honour of the Univerity, which it will always effectually preerve; yet) was uppreed or condemned for relating, in an impartial manner, ome hitorical facts concerning the great Earl of Clarendon; and the latter was proecuted (for it could not be prohibited, all the copies being ubcribed for) under pretence that the preface contained