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From an Impression of a Seat of T. Simon, in the possession of Mr. Yeo.

Published as the Act directs, 6 March 1790, by C.Dilly Poultry,
& the rest of the Proprietors.

PRINTED FOR J. F. AND C. RIVINGTON, L. DAVIS,
B. WHITE AND SON, T. LONGMAN, B. LAW,
J. DODSLEY, J. JOHNSON, J. ROBSON, C. DILLY,
G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, T. CADELL, J. NICHOLS,
R. BALDWIN, J. SEWELL, J. KNOX, J. MURRAY,
W.LOWNDES, J.BEW, W. GOLDSMITH, W. OTRIDGE,
G. AND T. WILKIE, R. RYAN, AND E. NEWBERY.

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ROM a family and town of his name in Oxfordshire, our Author derived his descent; but he was born at London in the year 1608. The Publisher of his Works in Profe (on whose veracity some part of this narrative muft entirely depend) dates his birth two years earlier than this but contradicting himself afterwards in his own computation, I reduce it to the time that Monfieur Bayle hath affigned; and for the fame reafon which prevailed with him to affign it. His father, John Milton, by profeffion a Scrivener, lived in a reputable manner on a competent eftate, entirely his own acquifition; having been early difinherited by his parents for renouncing the communion