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THE

Old and New Testaments

CONNECTED IN THE HISTORY OF

THE

JEWS AND NEIGHBOURING NATIONS,

FROM THE

Declensions of the Kingdoms of ISRAEL and JUDAH

TO THE

COLLEGE LIBRARY
NEW JERSEY

TIME OF CHRIST.

BY HUMPHREY PRIDEAUX, D. D.

DEAN OF NORWICH.

The first American, from the Sixteenth London edition,

TO WHICH IS NOW ADDED,

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

Which contains some Letters which he wrote in Defence and
Illustration of certain parts of his CONNEXIONS.

THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT NEW MAPS AND
PLATES, AND A FINE PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

CHARLESTOWN: (MASS.)

PUBLISHED AT THE MIDDLESEX BOOKSTORE.

J. M'Kown, Printer:

1815.

To the Right Honourable DANIEL, Earl of Nottingham, President of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council.

MY LORD,

IT being by your recommendation to your noble father, that I was by him made prebendary of the cathedral church of Norwich, while he was Lord Chancellor of England, and it being also by your Lordship's like favourable recommendation of me to her late majesty Queen Anne, that I was promoted to be Dean of the same church, I humbly offer unto your Lordship this product of my studies, in a grateful acknowledgment of the favours I have received from you. And, if the public receive any benefit from it (as I hope some may,) nothing is more just and reasonable, than that they should receive it through your Lordship's hands, who, in having been so much a patron to the Author, have acquired thereby the best title to all

the fruits of my labours. What I now offer unto 1402

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