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 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 THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT NEW MAPS AND 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 (RECAP) |