Of the Dignity y Office y&ic of Rural Deans. Thefe and 
many others are occafionally inferred in the Book, as 
hints and occurrences within the Limits he treats of.gave 
the Author an Opportunity of delivering his Judgment 
that upon the refptdive Heads.the fubj£(3 of them is fuch 
no Clergy-man at leaft can be fuppos'd to think himfeJf 
unconcerned in ; and theDifcourfes are the more valuable, 
becaufe fome of the Heads were never treated of before ; 
and the Accounts of thofe that have, are rot the Noti- 
bns and Opinions of other Men, but the EfFefts of the 
Authors own Ob{ervations,drawn fromOriginal Records. 
IV. Throughout the whole Work we find confiderable 
Corredlions and Improvements upon feveral Authors , 
who carrying on general Defigns,could not be fuppofcd to 
be free from flips ; or being at toogreataDiftance,had not 
an Opportunity of examining the original Inftruments,as 
intheCafeof Dr.F/Z^/if/Z/ againft SelJeftyp.i^sO hereto 
be wifhed that all Writers would obferve the fame Method, 
and give us an Account of the Miftakes which they have 
noted in other Authors, as they fall in with the particular 
Subjedl they are treating of! 
V. The Author has taken care to redifie matters of faft 
(relating to the Civil and Ecclefiaftical Hiftorics of the 
Kingdom) which before had been generally miftaken. 
VLTheGloflary.at the end, is not only an Account of 
Words and PhrafeSy but alfo an explication of ancient Cw 
ftoms^Laws, and Manners, From hence Sir H. Spelmans 
Gloffary might be very well enlarg'd which is a fuffici- 
ent recommendation of it, to thofe who underftandhow 
capable that Book is of Improvements, and how much it 
would be for the Honour of our Nation to have it once 
compleated. 
Printed for S.SmitbymA BWalford, Printers to the Royal Society, 
at the Prince's Arms in St. Vanrs Church-yard. 1 696. 
