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but it has been suggested^ as a teply^ that the
number would probably effect quitQ a sufficient
compensation. Hiose of unfreqnent recnnrence
are by no means lightly charged. This class is
perhaps the least authentic of the t?ro, having
never appeared in any Roman edition, but, ex-
cepting the first, in piotestant editions only;
and being comparatively easy of access^ it is
the less necessary to present a detailed account
of its contents.
The other class will occupy more of our
attention : and this appears to be exhibited in
the greater part of the remaining copies of the
Tax®. At an events, in what degree this is
the case will be submitted to the reader. Of
what character the Taxae in the first known
printed edition, that of 1471, aie, I am unable
to determine from inspection. But from die
circumstance, that they Login with the words,
or title, et primo de Expectativis, which form
the commencement likewise of one portion of
the Taxs of Leo X. printed in 1514, I infer
that, so far, they are, at least, substantially
the same. From the limits of the book, how-
ever, as already stated, it should appear to
extend no farther than to that portion, and t/iat,
in a mora oiontracted form. And it may here
