was fo great a Prince, could eafily procure the beft Ar- 
tiftsof all forts from foreign parts 5 as from Roffie, 
where he had his education, and whither this heft Art- 
ifts reforted from Greece^ and all other Countries, or 
from the Courts of the Eaftern and Weftern Kings of 
France, in which he was in great efteera, or indeed 
from any other parts of the Chriftian World, by the 
correfpondence, and intereft which he had at Rom. 
I have now, Sir, as you defired, given you my thoughts 
of K. Alfred's antiquity, which I pray you to impart 
to the worthy Dr Mufgrave, to whom I think my felf 
much obliged for his excellent anfwer to my Letter. 
And I Qiould alfo proceed to give youibme account of 
my Book, which is now in the Brefs at Oxfird, under 
the care of a very ingenious, and virtuous Gentleman, 
who to his exaft skill in the learned languages, hath 
added the knowledge of the ancient Northern tongues,^ 
and is a great and fuccefsful promoter of both among 
the happy youth, that are under his care. But, Sir, I 
muft entreat you to accept of afliort general, inftead of 
a more particular, and longer account of it, which per- 
haps I may give you another time. 
Title of it k as foltoxvs. 
LINGUARUM ^^TT. SEPTENTMONALIUM 
THESAURUS GRAMMATICO-CRITICUS 
ET ARCHiEOLOGlCUS. 
Accedit 
Catalogus librorum Veterum Septentrional] urn, tam eo- 
rum qui excuG funt, quam qui in Membra nis Scripti 
nondum eduntur, quam fieri licuit, locupletiiTimus.. 
I need fay nothing to you of the realbn of this Ti- 
tle, who in one Chapter have feen befides K. Alfred^ 
Antiquity, and three curious jR>////V Alphabets, whereof 
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