P. 161, l. 12. the very same evening. In the Appendix to A Short Account of Dr Bentley's Humanity and Justice (see pp. xxxiii.-iv. of Introduction) the date of Bentley's letter is said to have been Jan. 26, 16945. Bentley evidently knew (see p. lxviii. of second Dissertation) that copies of the book had been distributed on New Year's day. He knew also that his letter to Boyle had been preserved (see p. 162 of this vol.).
P. 161, l. 22. ingenuity, candour.
P. 162, l. 8. which he has thus published, see p. 19 of Boyle's Examination.
P. 166, l. 6. one cannot but suspect see pp. liv.— vi. of Introduction.
P. 171, l. 2. the Patent Office, "one of the many offices through which letters patent under the Great Seal had to pass before the grant was complete. . . . Pepys mentions in his Diary a 'Patent Office in Chancery Lane' under date March 12, 1668-9" (Wheatley, London Past and Present (1891), Vol. III. pp. 36-7).
P. 171, l. 18. St James's School, in Westminster. See Walcott's Handbook for St James's, Westminster (1850), p. 53.
P. 171, l. 21. Mr Justell, see p. xix. of Introduction,
P. 175, l. 15. I have been informed, &c. In the Appendix to the Short Account (pp. 99-100), Bennet replied to Bentley '. . . there is not a single word, in my relation, that does in the least imply me to have thought the Doctor library-keeper, the whole time I asked him for the MS. I applied to him as a friend very conversant in these things, who lived not far from the Royal Library, had an interest there, and could procure the MS. for me; but whether or no I had so early heard the rumour of the Doctor's standing fair
