TO THE 



KING. 



FOR to whom, Sir, with so Just and Equal Right should 

 I present the Fruits of my Labours, as to the Patron of that 

 SOCIETY, under whose Influence, as it was produced; 

 so to whose Auspices alone it owes the Favourable Acceptance 

 which it has received in the World ? To Tou then (Royal Sir) 

 does this Third Edition continue its Humble Addresses, Tanquam 

 M E M O R U M V I N D I C I ; as of old, they paid their 

 Devotions, 1 HERCULI fcf SILVANO; since Tou are 

 our 0o=r uXtKOT Nemorensis Rex; as having once Your Temple, 

 and Court too, under that Sacred Oak which Tou Consecrated 

 with Tour Presence, and we Celebrate, with Just Acknowledg- 

 ment to God for Tour Preservation. 



/ need not Aquaint Tour Majesty, how many Millions of 

 Timber-Trees (beside infinite others) have been Propagated 

 and Planted throughout Tour iw/Dominions, at the Instigation, 

 and by the sole Direction of this Work ; because Tour Gra- 

 cious Majesty, has been pleased to own // Publicklyyftr my 

 Encouragement, who, in all that 1 here pretend to say, deliver 

 only those Precepts which Tour Majesty has put into Practice; 

 as having (lif^e another Cyrus ) by Tour own Royal Example, 

 exceeded all your Predecessors in the Plantations Tou have made, 

 beyond (I dare assert it) all the Monarchs of this Nation, since 

 the Conquest of it. And, indeed what more August, what 



1 Cato de R. R. cap, 73. Aurel. Viet. Class. Phil. apud. Tranquill. And so Nemes- 

 tinus Deus Nemorum. Arnob. 1. 4. 



