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BYZ AND LAW, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE, CLERKENWILL.

TO HIS GRACE THE

LORD ARCHBISHOP

OF

YORK,

(DR. GILBERT.)

MY LORD,

THE very favorable opinion that Your GRACE was pleased to exprefs of the firft part of this work, encourages me to fet forth this laft under Your patronage and protection. This laft is the moft difficult, but yet it has been to me the most entertaining part of all. How it may approve itself to Your GRACE and others, I cannot pretend to fay: but having been perused by the fame three eminently learned perfons as the former volume, it may be prefumed on that

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GRACE to receive. At the fame time it

me an additional pleasure in giving me portunity of acknowledging publicly my ions to Your GRACE for favors great in elves, but made much greater by Your me manner of conferring them, unfolicited, ed, unexpected. I will not fay, undeserved, e that would be calling Your GRACE'S ent in queftion; but I will endevor to dehem: and indeed I fhould think any preat ill beftowed upon me, that did not and animate me more to profecute my , and thereby to prove myself more worthy ur GRACE's favor and kindness to,

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My LORD,

Your GRACE's ever obliged

and dutiful humble fervant,

THOMAS NEWTON.

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