THE Lane HISTORY OF THE LIVE S OF ABEILLARD and HELOISA; COMPRISING A PERIOD OF EIGHTY-FOUR YEARS, WITH THEIR GENUINE LETTER S, FROM THE COLLECTION OF AMBOISE. THE SECOND EDITION. Perfonne n'eft obligé d'écrire l'hiftoire; mais quiconque l'entreprend FLEURY DISC. 4. By the Rev. JOSEPH BERING TO N: BIRMINGHAM: PRINTED BY M. SWINNEY; M.DCC.LXXXVIIL ADVERTISEMENT. T HE indulgence with which the public has received the Hiftory of Abeillard and Heloifa, induces me to venture on this fecond edition. I have made no alterations in the work itself; because the expediency of doing it was not fuggefted even by the critics. But I have prefixed an Introduction of some length, containing a general view of that part of the eleventh century, which had preceded the period I defcribed. It will be given gratis to the purchasers of the first edition. The whole volume I now mean fhould be an Introduction to the hiftory of the fucceeding periods, which I purpose, at my leifure, to carry down to the beginning of the fixteenth century. It comprifes three hundred and fifty years. Two large volumes, I hope, will contain the whole, which shall be published feparately. The |