Printed by J. DARBY and T. BROWNE in Bartholomew-Clofe; A WORK calculated to promote the Cause of Liberry and Virtue could no where be infcribed with greater Propriety, than to a Perfon at the Head of a family fo remarkable for their fteady Adherence to thofe generous Interefts, and who has himself so often difplayed the fame noble Difpofition in the Face of Death and Danger. THE Title Your Lordship fo wor thily wears, would be thought, by many Persons, a fufficient flock of Honour for them to fubfift upon, without any farther Pursuits. But it is Your Lordship's trueft and noblest Diftinction, that You have received none from Your Family, which You have not fhewn Yourself both able and willing to repay. And Your Friends with Pleasure behold You exerting the fame Publick Spirit, the same Generofity, and Love of Liberty and Learning, that have rendered the Name of MOLESWORTH fo juftly dear to Your Country. AFTER Confiderations of so much Dignity and Importance, it may feem too too mean, if not indeed impertinent, to juftify this Address by the many Obligations I lie under to Your Lordfhip; or to found a Claim for Your Patronage of the following Papers on account of many of them having been compofed under Your own Roof, and first published under the Protection, and by the Command of Your Noble Father. But, as it would be criminal to suppress my grateful Senfe of the former, fo the latter is a Circumftance too favourable to my own Writings, for me to be able to conceal. IT would be a Punishment to a Person whose Converfation has lain fo much in Courts, and in Camps, to be detained long with any thing that I can be suppos'd capable of producing. But pardon me, my Lord, if from a frequent Obfervation I have made on Your eafy Condefcenfion to the Wishes. of Your Friends, I am loth to take my |