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Wo ate ttpWined in Sdxdfi, abbvet^tt Othef Sculptute3> 
with about thirty Saxon^ Dmo-Skx^onick,-, or l^ormanm" 
'Sdxonu\ Charaters , never before printed, which ar^ 
ail produced to fhevv tlie changes and alterations of the 
:&x(3^/ Totiguejti its Writing,Words, Phrafes andSyntax^ 
; The Catalogue mentioned in the Title, will be made 
'I^God willingj by the m6fl: skilful perfon, I think, iri 
the World 5 \vho hath done me and the publick the 
favour to promife tne to finilh that part of my under- 
taking 5 and in order to it, he batn already been at 
Cambridge^ and tak^n a 'Catalogue bf all ih^ Saxon MSS. 
ihere, to niy perfect fatisf^Elion \ and now by the fa^ 
your of his Superiours, is doing me the famefervice in 
the Library of Sir John Cdtton. But befides all that 
which the Title imports, I aiii iiow making a differta* 
iion of the ufefulnefs of thofe languages, which will 
furn-ifh me with many theprit^, and in which I- (hall 
print many originals , of which fome are prepared, 
and others preparing for the 'Prefs, by fome of my 
^Learned friends and acquaintance, who are fo generous 
as to affift me in this work. The Teries of 5^fjc<?« Coins 
in Sculpture, with explications Whicfr aa honourable 
perfon gave me leave to promife the world in his 
name, will alfo in^ke part 6f that diflertation, of 
which I have already written, ^tvyelve large fheets^ and 
I receive great ericourageto'erit to ptoceed iri it from the 
free com'muhica'tiph 6f MSS/ /rOth feveral Worthy Per- 
fons and Societies, which indeed makes my Book rife 
to a greater bulk than I atfirft expefted, and very much 
encreafes both my pains, arid tht ' cpft. But asl have 
in a manner devoted my felf \b this ^ork, fo I am con- 
tent to take any pain$ to illdftrite &Lt' '^^ 
guages and Antiquities, which have not yet been fetin 
their true light ^ and I hope thereby to bring the 
Northern & NorthWefipavts diBurope tO a correfpondence 
inAntiquity,which,lhope, WiilBfe oite gobd effeft of my 
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