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CORRECTIONS

MADE IN THE

SECOND EDITION

O F

MAR
A RY

QUEEN OF SCOTS

VINDICATED.

BY

JOHN WHITAKER, B. D.

AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF MANCHESTER;

AND

RECTOR OF RUAN-LANYHORNE, CORNWALL.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. MURRAY, N° 32, FLEET-STREET;
AND W. CREECH, EDINBURGH.

M.DCC.LXXXIX.

226 i. 96.

ADVERTISEMENT

TO THE

SECOND EDITION.

W

HEN I had conducted the present Vindication laboriously through the prefs; every sheet of the whole having been tranfmitted to me in Cornwall, and corrected by me here; I did not indulge myself with repose, after all my labours. I knew the host of adverfaries, that the cause of this unfortunate Queen had ftill to encounter. I knew that Dr. Robertson, the respectable and veteran leader of them, was ftill alive, in the full bloom of reputation for his other compofitions, and with his old animation of zeal for the defamers of Mary. Lord Hailes, I also knew, was equally alive; and equally ready, I fuppofed, to produce his arguments, and to throw out his farcasms, in affailing the character of Mary,

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