



PREFACE. 



title of Love and Truth, * were written refpec- 

 tively in the years 1668 and 1679. The evidence 

 of their authorfhip is twofold, and we think 

 quite conclufive. In one of the very few copies 

 known to exift, and now in the library of Emanuel 

 College, Cambridge, its original pofTeflbr, Arch- 

 bifhop Bancroft, has written : — " Is. Walton's 2 

 letters cone, y^ Diftemp'. of y^ Times, 1680," 

 and Dr. Zouch appended to his reprint of the 



* Love and Truth : / inj Two modeji and peaceablej Letters J 

 concerning! The diftempers of the prefent Times. j Written/ 

 From a quiet and Conformable Citizen of j London, to two 

 bufie and Fa5lious\ Shop-keepers in Coventry./ 



I Pet. 4. 15. 

 But let none of you fuffer as a bufiebody in other mens/ 

 matters./ 



London,/ Printed by M. C. for Henry Brome at the Gun/ 

 in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1680. 



Collation : 410. pp. iv. (with Title) 40 (Sig. A i and 2 ; 

 B to E 4). 



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