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tatione naturce usque ad finem, donavi eo nomine Impetus 

 Philosophici, quod ex familiaribus Viri magni colloquiis 

 notassern, cum de istis chartis mecum ageret. Non aliter 

 enim appellare solebat quicquid prioribus per titulos suos 

 separatis connecteretur; ne quis imperfectum statim sus- 

 picetur quod deferveseente Impetu non videt trahere syrma 

 prolixaa tractationis. Omnia autem baec inedita (nisi quod 

 in editis paucissimis rara exstent quarundam ex his rnedi- 

 lationum vestigia) debes, Amice Lector, Nobilissimo Guil 

 Boswello, ad quern ex ipsius Baconi legato pervenerant, cum 

 aliis in politico et morali genere elaboratis, quae nunc ex 

 dono TOV fjuaKapirov penes me servantur non diu premenda. 

 Boswello inquam, viro nobilitate. prudentia insigni, varia 

 eruditione, humanitate summa, el Oratori olim apud Batavos 

 Anglo ; cujus sancta mihi memoria est. Vale et conatibus 

 nostris fave, qui mox plura daturi sumus Baconiana latine 

 versa, maximam partem inedita ; et o-uAAoy^v adornamus 

 epistolarum quas vir eminentissimus Hugo Grotius scripsit 

 ad Belgas, Germanos, Italos, Suecos, Danos, Gallis exceptis, 

 quas Clarissimus Sarravius Senator Parisiensis edidit. Ro- 

 gantur itaque in quorum manus base inciderint, ut, si quid 

 ejus notse habent, aut sciunt unde haberi queat, ad typo- 

 graphum transmittant, et significent, casteris jam collectis 

 aggregandum. 



From this statement we learn, first, that all the 

 pieces in the volume are genuine, having been copied 

 by Gruter from original manuscripts, bearing marks 

 of revision and correction by Bacon himself; which 

 manuscripts Gruter received directly from Sir William 

 Boswell, to whom they had come directly from the 

 executors ; secondly, that Gruter had then in his pos 

 session, &quot;non diu premenda,&quot; certain other writings 

 of Bacon s (in Latin apparently) relating to morals 

 and politics, which had come to Boswell along with 



