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verses which conclude the letters. The Editor imagines there is another original letter in the possession of Mr. Dawson Turner, of Yarmouth, who has been respectfully requested, but in vain, to allow it to be included in the following collection.

The Editor cannot, satisfactorily to his own mind, conclude these remarks without expressing his grateful thanks for the civility and accommodation he has uniformly received from the librarians and assistants of the British Museum, who have upon all occasions shewn a disposition to facilitate his inquiries. A similar acknowledgement is due to the librarians of Sion College, Redcross Street Library, the London Institution, and Mr. Lemon, of the State Paper Office.

It was the Editor's intention to have inserted in the appendix, a catalogue of the tracts upon the Popish Controversy, chiefly of the reign of James II., contained in a series of eighty volumes, octavo, which may be seen in the library of Dr. Williams, in Redcross Street; and which perhaps contain the most complete collection to be found upon the subject; but as that catalogue would add several pages to this volume, already extended far beyond the Editor's original intention, it may be considered sufficient to have informed the reader of the existence of such a collection. There are also about fifty volumes of tracts upon the same subject, in the library belonging to the French Protestant or Refugee Church, in Threadneedle Street.

Since page lxii of the appendix has been printed, the Editor has seen another edition, of Wood's Translation of the book

De Vera Obedientià, at Mr. Thorp's in Bedford Street, Covent Garden, who has obligingly permitted him to copy the title page.-Except what follows, and in describing Bonner, as since instead of now Bishop of London, it is the same as that inserted in page lxiv. of the appendix.

"And now translated into English, and printed bi Michael Wood with the Preface and Conclusion of the Translator. "From Roane, xxvi of Octobre, MDLIII.-"

This edition is in rude types of the Roman letter, whereas the edition in the Royal Library is in old English text, very well cut, and the punctuation marked by short oblique lines. From the insertion of the word since, we apprehend that the copy in the Royal Library is the original edition; and Roane is probably a town in the Isle of Rhe, and not Rouen, in Normandy; or it may be Roann on the Loire.

The following is the most correct list of Bradford's works, which the Editor has been able to collect, but he is by no means satisfied that it is perfectly accurate.

1. A Meditation upon God's Providence and his Presence. 2. A Prayer that God would shorten the Persecution and restore the Gospel.

3. Institutio Divina et Vere Consolatoria certa Viri Mortis, Johanne Bradfordo, Anglo, Authore, ex vernacula Lingua in totium Sermonem conversa.

4. The Hurt of the Mass.

5. Sermons on Repentance and the Lord's Supper.-Sion Coll. Lib. 0. 13. 6.

6. Primitiæ, or First Fruits.-1548.

7. A Godly Treatise on Prayer, translated from Melancthon.

8. Complaint of Verity.-1559.

9. Meditation on the Lord's Prayer, Creed, and Ten Commandments.

10. The Good Old Way, or a Treatise of Repentance.11. Baptism of Children.

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