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to accomplisli.^^ The author acknowledges to have deli- 

 vered his '^ conceptions in a Fiction, as a more mannerly- 

 way, having for my pattern Sir Thomas More, and 

 Sir Francis Bacon/^ He dates it 25th of October, 

 1641, and has one leaf of dedication, followed by 14 

 pages of description. 



vn. 



A short Letter modestly intreating a Friend^s judge- 

 ment upon Mr. Edwards his Booke, he calleth an 

 Anti-Apologie : with a large but modest Answer 

 thereunto. — London, Printed according to order. 

 4to. 1644. 



On the back of the title page is a short letter from 

 Samuel Hartlib, written " From my house in Dukes- 

 place, in great haste, Aug. 5th.^' His address com- 

 mences, " Worthy Sir,^^ but gives no name. " I have 

 heard (he says) of Mr. Edwards '^ book, '^ as I must 

 needs doe, for all the City and Parliament rings of it. 

 The most of them cry it up, and some few cry it downe. 

 Truly, Sir, I could cry too, but neither up nor downe ; 

 for my heart is big with weeping, and I could wish 

 my head a fountaine of teares, to bewaile the sad effects 

 which are likely to follow upon these differences of 

 religion, which are fallen out among Brethren.^' 



The "large answer" consists of 36 closely printed 

 pages, signed, " Hezekiah Woodward," and dated 

 " From my house in Aldermanbury, 23 Aug. 1644," 



