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made to the Publick, that all the Amendments that are 
made, lhall be entred into an interleaved Catalogue in the 
Bpdleian Library, from whence they may corredt their 
own. But by the way, it may not be much amifs to 
obferve, that thefe very Men who rais'd the Objedions 
againft it, have been known to be eager in making ufe 
o| it, when they v/anted notice of Manufcripts, accor- 
ding to their feveral Occafions. 
And as they have already found the Benefit of it in 
their way of Study, fo feveral eminent Scholars have 
done, even before it was publiflied : Whereof I will 
mention but Two, viz, the Reverend Dr. Cave, as may 
be feen in his Second part of his Htftoria Literarta, and 
Mr. Grahe, from whom we exped many (hitherto un- 
printed) Pieces of the Primitive Fathers to be quickly 
pjiblifhed from the Manufcripts, to which he wasdire<J3:- 
by thefe Catalogues alone. And this is one great 
thing, wherein thefe Catalogues may be ferviceable to all 
Men of Letters, by admitting fhem to the latent Rich- 
eS'of the Nation, whereby chey may be much 'better en- 
abled to give us good Editions of Books than formerly. 
If any Author be to be re-printed, the Catalogues wUI 
be forthwith confulted, in order to know what Manu- 
feript Copies tliere be of him amongft us, and where 
they are ; that fo they may be collated, and the moft 
important Readings and other Remarks be, from them, 
Ei^ade Publick. U any other Subject be to be treated of, 
next after feeing what there is in Print upon it already, 
recourfe is had to the Catalogue, to fee what there re- 
mains unprinced 3- the publifliing of which is beftpwing 
fq much Learning upon the World which they had not 
before. Befides, by diligently reading over thefe Cata- 
logues, acquire a compleat Notion of the Writers of 
, almoft all Ages and Nations, and of their Works: the 
Catalogues of jPra/^^ Books giving only an Account of 
V * thoft 
