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DEDICATION.

rewarded Industry, and extended Cultivation, we de- dicate this Edition of the Four Ancient Irish Historians. In your review of this and our succeeding Publications, you will, we trust, duly estimate our motives and our objects ; without one feeling of party or of prejudice, to perpetuate the ancient Records of Ireland, and to shew by the forceful lesson of historic experience, that through all ages, hap- piness has been the offspring of Virtue, and Vice the parent of Misfortune.

One other motive we may however acknowledge — the opportunity of declaring the sentirnents of general and particular respect with which we have the honour to remain,

My Lords and Gentlemen,

Your very obedient and devoted Servants,

THE HIBERNIA PRESS COMPANY.