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 WALTON IAN A. 



To My Noble & honoured Friend Sir Robert 



Holt of AJion, in the County of 



Warwick, Baronet. 



Sir, 



HEN this relation of the life of Dodor 

 Donne was firft made publick, it had 

 befides the approbation of our late 

 learned & eloquent King, a conjunc- 

 tion with the Authors moft excellent Sermons to 

 fupport it ; and thus it lay fome time fortified 

 againft prejudice ; and thofe paflions that are by 

 bufie and malicious men too freely vented againft 

 the dead. 



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