the Gentile and courteous behaviour which you have acquired, and which charmes all those who have the honour to converse with you: These, I say, are vertues so peculier to your Person, and so conspicuous in the eyes of all the world, that the design of this Book being to form the like in the rest of the Gentry of our Nation that pretend to travel; It would be a wrong to the publick to let it appear under the Patronage of any other than of him that is the Idea of an accomplished and consummate Traveller. And this, I doubt not, was the reason, why the Author having had the honour to have been a Governour to so many of the flower of our Gentry, made choise of your Lordship to bequeath this work unto, by his last Will and Testament: And which imposeth upon
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