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effect of the heat and forwardness of his tem- 

 per, and perhaps it was no more; though, 

 comparing* it with what has happened since, it 

 looked oddly. What Mr. Wharton did towards 

 the real benefit of the work, proprio marte as 

 he speaks, viz. transcribing Greek fragments 

 out of MSS., translating them, and the like, is 

 readily acknowledged in their places up and 

 down the book, and more particularly in the 

 prolegomena, sect. iii. p. 7. in expressions more 

 comprehensive than what he did, really de- 

 served. My Lord, I am ashamed to mention 

 these things, but that necessity enforces it. 



P. 743. ad ann. 1280, there is this note, 

 Omnia dehinc ad finem usque a me scripta 

 sunt, a Cavo postmodum concinnata. I believe 

 nobody that reads this note but would make 

 this construction : that, from thence to the end 

 of that saeculum, and the beginning of the Ap- 

 pendix, was written by Mr. Wharton, and after- 

 wards only licked over and revised by me. 

 This obliges me to let your Grace into the 

 knowledge how Mr. Wharton came to be con- 

 cerned in the Appendix. When I was come to 

 the year 1280, I fell sick at Windsor, and not 

 knowing whether I might recover, and being 

 unwilling that so much pains as I had taken 

 should be wholly lost, I delivered my papers to 

 Mr. Wharton, and what materials I had pre- 



