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that I ever yet Caw ; and it almoft amazes and ffianies 
me, when I refleft upon fo many Books written by the 
Hand of one Man, moft of them in Folio, and the reft 
in Quarto : And at the fame time,, I can't but have a Ve- 
neration for his Memory, fince all this Pains was taken 
in the midft of Difcouragements and for that he conti- 
nued*^ to his Life's end in amafling'^and heaping up toge- 
ther fuch Memoirs and Notices of things, as otherwife 
we Ihould have been, for the moft part, utterly ignorant 
of. Next to thefe, in the Catalogue, follows a more 
exad Account of 
The Colledions of Mr. John Leland, written all with 
hisownHandj who was as indefatigable as Mr. Dodjworth^ 
and fb continued wbilft he was himfelf. His Defign in 
thefe Colledions, and others which are loft, or exiftent 
in other Places, was to fet our England in its true Light, 
as m^y more largely appear by his New-l^ears Gift to 
King Henry ViU. which I remember to have formerly 
read in Mr. Weaver's Funeral Monuments. But though 
neither Mr, Leland. nor Mr. Dodfworth Iwtd to digeft 
their CoUeSions, yet they ha^e been and ftill are ear- 
neftly enquired after, and diligently perus'd by thofe 
that cultivate theHiftory of England; though forae have 
been fo difingeouous as to conceal the Names of thefe 
Men, to whom they have been indebted for many a fair 
Remark, 
The next Parcel of Books are thofe of an equally indu- 
ftriqus Foreigner, the late learned Mr. Francis Junius^ the 
chief Promoter of the .S^x(?» Learning whilft he livedj as 
the Reverend Dr. Hickes is now. Thefe Books Mr. Ju- 
bequeathed to the Univerfny at his Death, al! of 
them appertaining to iht Septentrional l.^ng{xzgQs. Some 
of thefe are the old Manufcripts themfelves, others are 
Copies of the moft confiderable S^X(?» Manufcripts in the 
Cotton Library 3 ^c. accurately traofcrib'd by himfelf; 
