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TO THE

ILLUSTRIOUS

The LORD

HENRY HOWARD

OF

NORFOLK, &c.

MY LORD,

I Have good assurance, that I shall not have need to say much in Justification of this Adventure; or to devise Reasons, why I hold myself obliged to address this Volume to your Lordship. I may, I think, presume on the one hand, that notice will be soon taken, that we have here asserted and vindicated our care for the Resuscitation of Instructive Antiquities; for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences; for the diligent Perlustration of the Chief parts of the World; together with some not un-accurate Researches for good Models of Artifice, and for many Excellencies of Nature; (as will appear in the Preface, and in several of the Tracts following thereupon.) And sure I am that on the other hand it will be consider'd in all these Respects; that due Veneration may be given to the Ancient and First inventors; and that Modern Industry be not discouraged, but that all advantages be imported from the remote Distances of Time and Place, for the benefit of our own Country, and for Posterity. Now from these Considerations I think I may have good hopes, that this my humble Oblation will not be accused of any Ingongruity, though it be too mean to testifie the devotion I bear and owe to your Lordship.

My
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