The PREFACE.
pertinent to repeat the substance of what I observed upon that occasion—That the Manuscripts, from which this work is printed, are Butler's own hand-writing, as evidently appears from some original letters of his found amongst them—That upon his death they fell into the hands of his good friend Mr. W. Longueville, of the Temple, who, as the writer of Butler's life informs us, was at the charge of burying him—That upon Mr. Longueville's decease they became the property of his son the late Charles Longueville, Esq; who bequeathed them at his death to John Clarke, Esq; and that this gentleman has been prevailed upon to part with them, and favoured me with an authority to insert the following certificate of their authenticity.
"I do hereby certify, that the papers now proposed to be published by Mr.Thyer,
