To the Reader. 
Auing had the. Honour to bee 
continually with my Lord , 
in compiling of this Worke^ 
And to be employed there¬ 
in; I haue thought it not a- 
miflTe, (with his Lordfhips 
good leaue and liking,) for the better fatisfadti- 
on of thofe that fhall reade it, to make knowne 
fomewhat of his Lordfhips Intentions, touch¬ 
ing the Ordering, and Publifhing ofthefame. 
I haue heard his Lordfhip often fay - that if 
hee fhould haue ferued the glory of his owne 
Name, hee had beene better not to haue pub- 
lifhed this S\QnuraU Bijlory : For it may feeme 
an Indigefted Heape of Particulars. And can¬ 
not haue that Lufture, which Bookes call in¬ 
to Methods haue : But that he refolued topre- 
ferre the good of Men, and that which might 
beft fecure it * before any thing that might haue 
Relation to Himfelfe. And he knew well, that 
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