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know when our loving father R. C. died and had no more but the bare names of the beginners, and all their ſucceſſors to us; yet there came into our memory, a ſecret, which through dark and hidden words, and ſpeeches of the 100 years, Brother A. the ſucceſſor of D. (who was of the laſt and ſecond row and ſucceſſion and had lived amongſt many of us,) did impart unto us of the third row and ſucceſſion; otherwiſe we muſt confeſs, that after the death of the ſaid A. none of us had in any manner known any thing of Brother R. C. and of his firſt fellow-brethren, then that which was extant of them in our Philoſophical Bibliotheca, amongſt which our Axiomata was held for the chiefeſt Rota Mundi, for the moſt artificial, and Protheus the moſt profitable. Likewiſe we do not certainly know if theſe of the ſecond row have been of the like wiſdom as the firſt, and if they were admitted to all things. It ſhall be declared hereafter to the gentle Reader not onely what we have heard of the burial of R. C. but alſo made manifeſt publickly by the foreſight, ſufferance, and
