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seemed to insist upon it,) I was content he 

 should have the two last saecula, by way of Ap- 

 pendix. Whereto he afterwards added several 

 things, making use of the scattered notes I had 

 prepared, and what was before in the charto- 

 phylax, without taking any notice whose they 

 were, nor did I much expect it, or desire he 

 should. And because there were two or three 

 sheets from ann. 1280, to the end of that 

 saeculum, which he said he had done, I cut out 

 those leaves, and for any thing I know they 

 may be among his papers at this hour, and did 

 it entirely over again, wherein there was not 

 one word of Mr. Wharton's made use of, more 

 than what will necessarily fall in, where two 

 persons make use of the same books in prosecu- 

 tion of the same design. I further told him 

 (for now I began to perceive his humour and 

 what he aimed at) that, to the end there might 

 be no farther dispute about this matter here- 

 after, if there was any other part of the book 

 to which he could make out a claim, I would 

 strike it out, and do it over again ; and that I 

 all along designed to own in the preface what 

 real help he had contributed, showing him that 

 part of the prolegomena, wherein I had done it. 

 With which he was satisfied, and never after 

 spake of it to me, or, that I know of, to any one 



