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of it ; who lent me a great MS. in folio of his 

 grandfather's, from whence I took what I liked, 

 and had not before. After I had corrected the 

 writing, pointed it, divided it into sections, and 

 caused it to be transcribed fair, I found that 

 Sa. Daniel inserted into his History of Eng- 

 land, almost word for word, both the intro- 

 duction and the life : whence it is, that you 

 have sometimes in the margin of my copy a 

 various reading with D. after it, which stands 

 for Daniel. If Mr. Keble hath any mind to 

 publish any more of this author's, you may tell 

 him, that, besides the great volume in his grand- 

 child's custody, (which I mentioned before,) 

 and some things in mine, I think not printed, 

 David Loyd, in the second edition of his State 

 Worthies, 1670, p. 675, tells us, ' That Mr. 

 Hampden, a little before the wars, was at the 

 charge of transcribing 3452 sheets of Sir W. 

 Raleigh's MSS., as the amanuensis himself told 

 him ; who had his close chamber, his fire, and 

 candle, with an attendant to deliver him the 

 originals, and take his copies, as fast as he 

 could write them.' If Mr. K. can come at all 

 these, he may soon make a volume as big as the 

 history of the world. The prefacer to the book 

 newly printed observes well, that it is in all 

 points much like Sir W. Raleigh's way of writ- 

 ing, and worthy of him ; but it much surprised 



