i MifceUanect Curio fa. 



The Credibility of any Reporter is to be rated 

 (i) by bis Integrity or Fidelity ; and (2) by his 

 Ability : and a double Ability is to be confider- 

 ed ; both that of Apprehending what is delivered, 

 and alfo of Retaining it afterwards, till it be 

 tranfmitted. 



c What follows concerning the Degrees of 

 c Credibility, is divided into Four Proportions. 

 4 The Two Firfl, refpeft the Reporters of the 

 * Narrative } as they either Tranfmit Succejfive* 

 1 ly, or Atteft Concurrently : the Third, the Sub- 

 c jett of it ; as it may conlifl: of feveral Articles \ 

 f and the Fourth, joins thofe three Confiderati- 

 4 ons together, exemplifying them in Oral and 

 4 ia Written Tradition. 



- prop, r 



Concerning the Credibility of a Report, made by 

 Single Succeflive Reporters, who are equally Cre- 

 dible, 



Let their Reports have, each of them, five 

 Sixths of Certainty ; and let the firft Reporter 

 give me a Certainty of 1000/. in 1200 /. it is 

 plain, that the Second Reporter, who delivers 

 that Report, will give me the Certainty but of 

 itb's of that 1000 /. or the \th of zths of the 

 full Certainty of the whole 1200 /.. And fo a 

 Third Reporter ,w ho has it from thefecond,will 

 tranfmit to me but \ths oi that Degree of Cer- 

 tainty, the Second would have deliver'd me, 

 &c« 



\ That is, if, a, be put for the Share of Aflu- 

 rance a fingje Reporter gives me ; and, c, for 

 that which is wanting to make that Aifurance 

 eompleat ; and I therefore fuppos^d to have 



