THE

WORKS,

Moral and Religious,

OF

Sir MATTHEW HALE, Knt.

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH:

THE WHOLE NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND REVISED.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

HIS LIFE AND DEATH,

BY BISHOP BURNET, D.D.

AND

AN APPENDIX TO the life,

Including the ADDITIONAL NOTES of RICHArd Baxter.

BY THE REV. T. THIRLWALL, M. A.

EDITOR OF THE LATIN AND ENGLISH DIATESSARONS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

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1805.
LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
DAVIS

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOHN, LORD ELDON,

BARON Eldon,

OF ELDON, IN THE COUNTY PALATINE OF Chester,

Lord High Chancellor of Great-Britain,

&c. &c.

MY LORD,

THE following Works are the production of a MAN of whom the Learned Profession has reason to boast. His piety and virtue, his learning and labors, reflected a lustre on the exalted station he filled, and have stamped on his memory the veneration and esteem of impartial posterity. Your Lord

ship will not be unwilling that YOUR NAME

should be inscribed on the same roll with that

of Sir MATTHEW HALE.

sion that he would, with

Under a persua

reciprocal plea

sure, acknowledge My LORD ELDON, these Works, WITH PERMISSION, are dedicated to your Lordship,

By your Lordship's most humble,

And obedient Servant,

THOMAS THIRLWALL.

Mile-End, March 30, 1805.

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