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pared for the two following seecula, and desired 

 him out of them and the chartophylax to draw 

 up some kind of continuation agreeable to the 

 rest, adding to it what he could meet with in 

 my books. This I did as a pro tempore provi- 

 sion in case of the worst, designing, if I reco- 

 vered, to finish it afterwards. Accordingly, he 

 parted from me and went to my house at 

 Islington, where he was maintained for three 

 months at my charge, and his salary duly paid 

 him. At my return he showed me what he 

 had done, without taking any further notice. 

 Six months after, when the book was in the 

 press, and about twenty sheets printed, he 

 came to me, and in a peremptory manner de- 

 manded that the latter part of the book might 

 be published in his name. I was much sur- 

 prised, and represented to him the unreason- 

 ableness of such a demand, that what was done, 

 w^as done in my service, by my direction, at 

 my cost, and upon my bottom, and that I had 

 thoughts of taking it in pieces, and doing it 

 over again, with some other considerations 

 which I have now forgot. However, because I 

 did not much stand upon it, so the book might 

 be useful to the ends designed, who had the 

 credit of this or that part of it, and he being a 

 young man, if it might be a means to let him 

 into public notice, (upon which account he 



