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‘The preface, or rather the address to the reader, which com- 
mences thus: ‘* Frons operis futuri Vindicias pro Patria pre- 
ferat,” &c. &c., occupies about six pages, and endsas follows : 
‘¢si tibi lector ero. Vale, Fave, et fruere labore nostro.” 
Next follow ‘* Generales Censure variorum Authorum de fide 
Catholica et Libris Hectoris Boetii atque asseclarum ipsius ;” 
including those of Polydore Virgil, Carolus Sigenijus, Tho- 
mas Boygus, Joannes Lelandus Londinensis, Luidyus, Cam- 
denus, Petrus Berteyus Belgeus, Buccananus, Richard Stani- 
hurst. After these Censure there follows something like 
a table of contents, divided into eleven chapters, and headed 
thus: ‘* Referuntur capita potissima historicorum errorum 
qui in Vindiciis nostris refutantur.” 
The body of the work commences at page 14, and to it 
there is a short heading, thus: “ Brevis descriptio Ibernie 
Insule,” &c. &e., and then a little prologue commencing : 
‘‘ Inter multos exteros nostri seculi qui geographiam,” &c., 
which occupies half a page; at the end of this, cap. i. com- 
mences, and is entitled: “ Situs, magnitudo, celum, solum, 
salubritas, feecunditas aliaque commoda, ac dotes Ibernie In- 
sule.” And the text of the work begins thus: ‘ Vernaculo 
vocabulo Erin,” which is then continued in 202 folios written 
upon both sides, when a different character of hand appears, 
which continues until page 309, written very closely, and also 
upon both sides. 
After this a second part commences, with different paging, 
headed thus: “ Ihesus Maria Deo gratias. Apologia pro 
Ibernia adversus Cambri calumnias, sive Fabularum et Famo- 
sorum libellorum Silvestri Gyraldi Cambrensis, sub vocabu- 
lis, ‘Topographia sive de mirabilibus Iberniz, et Historia Vati- 
cinalis sive expugnationis ejusdem insule, refutatio.” With 
an address to the reader commencing—‘‘ Benevo. lectori S. 
In contumeliam multorum cum Sanctorum.” After this, and 
a table of contents, follows cap. i. headed thus: ‘* Quid Sta- 
niburst et alii senserint universim de intemperie et mordaci- 
