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fhip with this letter, I fhall make no apology to 
your Lordfhip upon this head; and only take the 
liberty of alluring you, that I am, with the moft 
profound refpedt, 
my Lord, 
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your Lordfhip’s moft obliged 
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and obedient fervant, 
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William Watfon. 
CII. An Account of the Cafe of the late 
Rev. James Bradley, D. D. Aflronomer 
Royal: in a Letter to the Right Honourable 
George Earl of Macclesfield, Prefedent of 
R. S. from Daniel Lyfons, M . D. 
My Lord, 
Read Dec. 16, r j 1 HE refpedt, with which the late 
1762. £) r> Bradley aftronomer royal, and 
Savilian profeflor of aftronomyin this Univerftty, was 
treated by the learned of all countries, and the efteem, 
in which he was held by your Lordfhip, and the 
Society over which you prefide, muft naturally make 
the world delirous to be acquainted with the circum- 
ftances of that illnefs, which occafioned his death, 
efpecially as his diforder was in itfelf rather uncom- 
mon. 
Under thefe circumftances I flatter myfelf, that I 
fhall do what will be very agreeable td your Lordfhip, 
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