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it fo acceptable t6 the learned-Sentlemen of chat Faculty, 
that Four Kings at Arms, and Tome eminent Heralds, 
have not only fubfcribed, but fince their Perufal thereof, 
bought others for their abfent Friends, exprefting great 
fatisfa&ion in that part of the Performance : as many lear- 
ned Antiquaries have done in the other Parts relating to 
theTopography and Etymology of the Names of Places, 
&c, which he hath been very particular in, as finding the 
Name to be frequently a brief Defcription of the Place ; 
and hath been thereby enabled to difcover the Veftigia of 
fome conftderable Antiquities, in the actual Survey that 
he made of thofe Places to render the Work more com- 
pleat : He hath, by the ancient Names and the Situation 
of the places, been enabled to defcribe, in a very particu- 
lar manner, the Tranfacftions between the Pagans and 
Primitive Chrijlian Saxons, relating to that noted Bat- 
tle upon Win-moor, An. Dom 6 5 5". There are alfo 
many very confiderable Benefactions, and (lately Edifi- 
ces erected of later times, particularly a magnificent 
Church built and endowed by Mr. Harrifon ; whofe Ne- 
phew the Reverend Mr. Robinfon hath moft generoufly 
promis’d to endow another Church, which, it is hoped, 
will be fhortly erected in that populous Town of Leeds, 
to the building of which feveral of the Magiftrates, par- 
ticularly Mr. Milner (who hath adorned the Market-place 
with a moft noble Marble Statue of Her late Majefty pla- 
ced in the Fronrof the Guild-hall ) and other Inhabitants 
have fubfcribed’'very liberally. Here is alfo a Charity- 
School for an Hundred poor Children, who arecloathed 
and taught here, fyc. 
But what relates more immediately to thefe Philofophi- 
cal Transactions, is the annexed Catalogue of the Authors 
Mufaum, juftly celebrated for Antiquities and for natural 
and artificial Curiofities. The Catalogue of the Coins and 
C c c Medals 
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