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The (Reader will in this Treatife find littleelfe omitted : A Very painful and exatl A-bridgment has been made, many Correctionsof the Authors, which he faw before his Death,and left among his other Books in his Li-brary at Oxford, are here carefully al-tered ; fome Additions are made, a Liftcontinued, of the feveral Knights-Com-panions, as well as Officers of the Order,for above forty Tears 5 and the Coats of Armsof abundance of the Knights-CompanionsVifibly corrected from good Authorities 5 andeVery dijlinH Chapter treated of at large ; fothat this Work x ^ as not been compleated butat great Labour as well as Expence, whichcould not haVe been fupported, but forthe Encouragement fome of the Knights-Companions of the moft Noble Orderwere pleafed to give it 5 as well in theirSubfcriptions, as in the good Opinion theyfeemed to Exprefs of the Defign,

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