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additions bx0 highly repTehwsible* In the year
1824 was published a valuable pamphlet en-
titled *^ A brief HisUirieal Reference to the
Three Capital Offences of the Church of Rome ;
the Sale of Indulgences/' &c. Under this
first head is given a rather detailed, and, in the
main, correct, aoconnt of the Roman Tax*
Books, with additional and useful matter : but
the authcnr, who a^somes the name of Rnsticns,
does not appear to be acc^uainted with Mar-
chand's discnssioa, and is therefore defective,
as weU as, in some points, erroneous. Mar-
chaud therefore still continues the principal
author on the snbject ; and his work must be
the foundation, on which any future similar
work is to be raised. Bat however meritorious
and successful his inquiry may be, it is not so
full and correct as it might be. There is room
for much important addition, some rectification
of error, and some more accurate statement of
fact. And these may be supplied^ partly from
a careful examination of the well known and
useful Annales Typographici of Panzer, and
partly from a more accurate examination, in the
editions which are accessible, of the Tax©
themselves.
This is the object which the author pro*
poses to accomplish; and how far he has accom*
