( }l<* ) 
with that which hath been given you under . my Name, 
nor to give any Confent to the publijhing of it, 
I am, 
Your very humble Servant, 
Isaac N ewton* 
London , May 2.7, 
1715, St. Vet. 
The Privilege was granted May 21, and regifter’d 
May 25 Old Style, my Letter was dated May 27, and 
the Chronological Index, or Abridgement as he calls 
it, was printed before the Arrival of my Letter, and 
kept ever fince to be publifli’d at a convenient Time. 
The Bookfeller knew that I had not feen the Transla- 
tion of the Abridgement, and without feeing it could 
not in reafon give my Confent to the Impreflion.. 
He knew that the Tranflator was unknown to me, 
* and was againft me ; and therefore he knew that it 
was not fit that I fhould give my Confent nor be 
ask’d to do it. He knew that the Tranflator had 
written a Confutation of the Paper tranflated, and 
that this Confutation under the Title of Obfervations , 
was to be printed at the End of it, and he told me no- 
thing of all this, nor fo much as the Name of the 
Obfervator, and yet asked my Confent to the publlih- 
ing * as if any Man could be fo foolifh as, to confent 
to the publifhing of an unfeen Tranflation of his Pa- 
pers, made by an unknown Perfon with a Confuta- 
tion annexed, and unanfwered at their fir ft Appear- 
ance in Publick. . . 
After the Recital of my Letter, he adds that 
the Author of the Tranflation, and of the Obferva- 
tions upon it, pretends to have an entire Certainty 
that this Index, or Abridgement of Chronology, is the. 
