ADVERTISEMENT. XXVifc 



and principally, to aid the founding a Chapel of; 

 Ease at London Colney in Hertfordshire, by 

 appropriating the profit, if any, to furthering 

 that object of his aim and wishes ; and so, 

 the good Archbishop and the Author, *' being 

 dead," shall yet work in their vocation and 

 wonted course, — in deeds of piety, charity, and 

 public spirit. — Secondly, to do justice to the 

 name of an honest man, *' the noblest work of 

 God :'* — for although ** the righteous are had in 

 everlasting remembrance," far preferable to any 

 human and mortal memorial, yet as we inscribe 

 tombs to the dead for the sake of the living, so 

 a book is a monument more lasting than brass, 

 " aere perennius ;" as the brazen effigies, long 

 since stolen or strayed from chancelled tomb- 

 stone of abbot, knight, or squire, will oftimes 

 testify to the men of this generation. — Thirdly^ 

 to gratify, and not alone to gratify, but to edify 

 also the reader, by imparting to him the same 

 pleasure and profit which the Editor has himself 

 derived from the imreserved perusal of a work, 

 which he believes few living persons have seen , 

 in MS. besides the present Bishop of London^ 



