OXFORD, PRINTED BY J. VINCENT, FOR THOMAS TEGG AND SON, LONDON. TEGG AND CO. DUBLIN. AND J. & S. A. TEGG, SYDNEY & HOBART TOWN. 1839. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE DANIEL, EARL OF NOTTINGHAM, PRESIDENT OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL. MY LORD, noble It being by your recommendation to your father that I was by him made Prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Norwich, while he was Lord Chancellor of England, and it being also by your Lordship's like favourable recommendation of me to her late Majesty, Queen Anne, that I was promoted to be Dean of the same church, I humbly offer unto your Lordship this product of my studies, in a grateful acknowledgment of the favours I have received from you. And if the public receive any benefit from it (as I hope some may), nothing is more just and reasonable than that they should receive it through your Lordship's hands, who, in having been so much a patron to the Author, have acquired thereby the best title to all the fruits of my labours. What I now |