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VI. A Letter rpherein is given an AccoHrit of 
the Catalogues of Mamfcripti lately Printed 
at Oxford. 
SIR, 
Gcording to your Defire, I will procure you one of 
the Delegates of our Preft, at One Pound Two Shillings. 
By my readinefs in this little Affair, I would that you 
Ihould guefs how much I am devoted to your Service ; 
and as another Inftance of an entire Obedience to all that 
you require, I have here fent you my Judgment of the 
Work it felf, which (without any Complement) none 
but — — — ftiould have forced from me. 
I know my own Inabilities too well, to be forward in 
medling with any thing out of nay way and above my 
jreach : yet when — tells me, with his ufual Sweet- 
nefs, That he would mllingly he olligd tome for my Opi» 
nion of the Book, of the Value and VJe vohereof Joe defirei 
to he inform' in order to make a right EJiimation of it. 
I at length prevail'd with my felf, for a time, to put a 
flop' to thofe Studies I was engaged in, and which, I muft 
needs fay, were more agreeable to my Inclination ; and 
have perus'd not only this, but feveral other Catalogues 
of Manufcripts, my Thoughts upon all which, I prefent 
you with : Not that I am fo vain as tofuppofe theCha- 
rader of this prefent Catalogue now before me, will rife 
or fink for any thing I can &y ; but that I might con-, 
vince — — - that all his Dlefires, with me,' have the 
Place of Commands. 
which is prized by 
But 
