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as it is obvious to understand it, is so extra- 

 vagantly untrue, that he might with equal jus- 

 tice challenge the entire work, as in effect he 

 has done the greatest part. Mr. Wharton was 

 with me but seven or eight months (and those 

 winter months) after I resumed what I had long 

 thrown aside ; a time much too short for a 

 book of that bigness, if he had claimed the 

 whole. The four first saecula I had drawn up, 

 and still have by me under the hand of my then 

 amanuensis, some years before Mr. Wharton 

 ever saw an University ; to which I added 

 several things afterwards, mostly extracted out 

 of the English lives, which I had published 

 long before I ever heard of Mr. Wharton's 

 name ; nay, there are some passages, and those 

 pretty large, hooked by Mr. Wharton within 

 the compass of his note, which I particularly 

 remember I drew up several months after he 

 left me, having then got some books which I 

 had not before. And for all the rest (more 

 than in the sense wherein things are acknow- 

 ledged in this paper) I am as sure they were of 

 my own doing as I am of my right hand. 



*' The whole foundation of any pretence at 

 all was no more than this. Mr. Wharton lived 

 with me as an amanuensis ; at that time I 

 resumed my design of the Historia Literaria. 

 Besides his writing as 1 dictated to him, I em- 



