_To the RIGHT HONOURABLE

T H o M A s
Earl of ?em5ro/<e and Montgomery,

Baron Herbert of Cardifi, Lord Rofs of Kendal,
Par, Fitzhugh, Marmion, St. Qlintin, and
Shurland ; Lord Treficlent  bit Majefly’: nzo/Z
Honourafile Privy Council, and Lora’ Lieutenant

aft/w Count] 0f Wilts, and of South-W ales.

My LORD,

HIS Treatife, which is grown up under
your Lordfhilfs Eye, and has ventured in-

to the World by your Order, does now,

by anatural kind 0F Right, come to your Lordfhip
for that Proteetioil, which you leveral Years finee
promifed it. ’Tis not that I think any Name, how
great foever, {let at the beginning of a Book, will be
able to cover the Faults that are to be Found in it.
_Things in Print mull {land and Fall by their own
Worth, or the Reader's Fancy. But there being no-
thing more to be defired for Truth, than a Fair un-
prejudiced Hearing, no body is more likely to pro-
cure me that, than your Lordfhip; who are allow-
ed to have got f0 intimate an Acquaintance with
her, in her more retired Receliies. YourLordfhip
Vo L. I. a is