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PRELIMINARY NOTICE TO THIS TEANSLATION. The name

so long familiar, of the

Rev.

Dom

Lau-

rence Shepherd, as Translator, cannot but be painfully missed

He

has,

upon the Title-page of this Volume. indeed, passed away to his reward, but

his tvork of love

still

lives

Up

on.

to the last, his

heart was in this undertaking, whereby he hoped

from his seclusion here, obedience, in their midst and in thrown by as when to reach souls, as effectually,

his last illness, he

commended

of this translation to the

the zealous prosecution

Right Rev. the Lady Abbess

of Stanbrook, to be executed, by such of her

munity, as she thought proper to It

Com-

select.

would seem only in keeping with what we know

so well,

of the inclinations of Rev.

Dom

L. Shep-

herd, to take this opportunity of thanking the form-

Work,

sympathy and encouragement, they have long given to it, a sympathy to which he was gratefully sensible, not on his own er

Readers of

this

for the

—

account, but because fluence

it testified

to the increasing in-

Holy Church was thus enabled

to exercise,

in England, in proportion as the inspiration of her