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LEWIS'S PREFACE.
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of near an hundred that might be produced for this purpose.

Hearn's edit. p. 4, runs thus. Who ere ever he had beene reader in court: whereas here it is, before ever he had read in the innes of court.

P.9. In all your heigh courts of param. Here it is, in your high court of parliament.

——it could not faile to lett and put to silence from the givinge of theire advice and counsell many of your discrete commons we are utterly discharged———Of this Hearn himself did not know what to make and therfore puts his sic in the margin: but here the sentence is plain, it could not faile to let and put to silence from the givinge of their advice and counsell many of your discrete commons, to the great hindrance of the common affaires, except that everie one of your commons were utterly discharged———.

P. 12.—he began to talke of that gallery at Hampton-Court.——but here it is, he began to talk of the gallery, [at Whitehall where the Cardinal and he were walking] sayinge, I like this gallerie of your's much better than your gallerie at Hampton-Court.

Li. 18. Hearne attempts a correction of the blunder allweit. Sic, sais he, pro albeit. But here we are shewn it should be all-weare-it.

P. 19. He besough his grace of sufficient respect advised to consider of it, which is nonsense; but here it is right, he besought his grace of sufficient respite to consider of it advisedlie.

P. 18. Cardinal Woolsey waxed so wooe therewith. Where is the sense of this? But here it is as it should be, Cardinal Woolsey, I say, waxed so woodd therewith: or so mad therwith.