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RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL

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BRISTOL,

LORD BISHOP OF DERRY, &c. &c. &c.

MY LORD,

HE firft Societies of London

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and Paris praise your talents

and good-breeding.

The first

Artists of Italy praise your taste.

All the world praises your heart.

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What then is left for me to fay, but that I am, with the warmest gratitude, and with the most profound refpect,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's

Moft obedient

Humble Servant,

MARTIN SHERLOCK.

PREFACE.

I

Think a book looks awkward without a preface, otherwise I fhould not write one to this; for, in truth, I have nothing to fay. I ask no indulgence; I bid no defiance; I am, what I wifh England was, at peace with all the world; and I demand of my reader nothing but candour.

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