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• Authoris mentem referunt Salis aurea Scripla;
Accede, d veres rèverere in Imagine Vultus;
Salicet, Artificis complevit dextera caplum.
Vivet et in partem jam Vir Reverendus utramq.

Of fundry

Eminent Perfons

IN THIS

LATER AGE

In Two Parts,

I. Of DIVINES.

II. OF NOBILITY and GENTRY of both Sexes.

B Y

SAMUEL CLARK;
Somtimes Paftor of Bennet Fink, London.

Printed and Reviewed by himself juft before his DEATH

To which is added

His own LIFE, and the LIVES of the COUNTESS of SUF
FOLK, Sir NATHANIEL BARNARDISTON, Mr. RI-
CHARD BLACKERBY, and Mr. SAMUEL FAIRCLOUGH
drawn up by OTHER HANDS.

Heb. 17. 1. Wherefore Jeeing we are compassed about with fo great a cloud of witnees, let
we lay afide every weight, and the fin which do's so easily befet us, and let us run with Pati-
ence the Race that is fet before us.

LONDON.

Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Princes Arms in
Ludgate-street, MDC LXXX III.

THE

PREFACE,

With the

Life of the Author.

To the Chriftian and Candid READER.

Chriftian Reader,

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Here present thee with a Third Volume of Modern Lives, concerning which fome may object, and fay, That of them have been Printed alreamany dy, and in a more large and copious manner than we find them here? To which I anfwer, 'Tis true, and yet I judge it neceffary thus to Print them again. For I have obferved, that being generally Printed in little Volumes, few of them come to a fecond Impreffion, but after a little time, are thrown aside and forgotten; whereas, when many excellent Lives are collected into one or more Volumes, they do continue, and will fo do, till Printing fhall be no more: Witness Plutarchs and Melchior Adams, &c. Lives.

And if any except against my contracting of fome of them, I answer, That if you pleafe to compare them together, you will find nothing left out that is of fpecial concernment. I have always affected multum in paucis, to include much matter in few words, and yet withal, to avoid obfcurity.

I have been encouraged to make this Collection, and now to Publish it, finding that my former Labours in this kind, have been accepted with the Saints, and in the Church of Chrift; which is apparent, for that they have been Printed four times in a few years fpace, and yet never lefs than a Thou

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