LIFE OF WHARTON". 173 



else, though he lived more than seven years 

 after. 



Thus, my Lord, I have truly and sincerely 

 laid the whole case before you, and I thought 

 myself obliged to do it, in order to the doing 

 myself right. For I should have been unpar- 

 donably wanting to myself, had I suffered my- 

 self to be undeservedly transmitted to posterity, 

 as one that had published another man's labours 

 under my own name ; a thing from which I was 

 ever most averse, and have commonly erred on 

 the other hand. I know not into whose hands 

 Mr. Wharton's book may hereafter fall, or what 

 use may be made of those notes ; if therefore 

 your Grace shall think fit to let those two or 

 three notes stand as they are, I humbly beg the 

 favour and the justice that this paper may be 

 fastened into Mr. Wharton's book, that so im- 

 partial persons may be rightly informed in the 

 state of things. I want not an opportunity at 

 this time of publicly doing myself right. But, 

 since the notes are kept private under your 

 Grace's custody, I did not think fit to make my 

 defence any more public than by this address 

 to your Grace. If, when I am dead, any use 

 shall be made of these notes to my prejudice, I 

 hope this paper will in some measure plead for 

 me, or that some friend will stand up to do me 



