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THE HONORABLE

GEORGE LYTTLETON Efq;

ONE OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS

OF THE TREASURY.

SIR,

NOTWITHSTANDING your conftant refufal,

when I have asked leave to prefix your name to this Dedication, I must ftill infift on my right to defire your Protection of this Work.

To you, Sir, it is owing that this History was ever begun. It was by your defire that I first thought of fuch a compofition. So many years have fince past, that you may have, perhaps, forgotten this circumftance: but your defires are to me in the nature of commands; and the impreffion of them is never to be. erafed from my memory.

Again, Sir, without your affistance this History had never been completed. Be not

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