Excerpt from Miscellanies Historical and Philological: Being a Curious Collection of Private Papers Found in the Study of a Noble-Man, Lately Deceas'd H E following Papers might very well ven to re Abroad without a Preface, fince They car ry their own Recommen dation in the Frontifpiece: However the Stationers iiinfifiing, That 'tis neither ufual nor handfom to let the Courteous Reader jump from the Title Page to the Body of the Book without77m Trefdce'. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.