TO THE. Right Honourable Henry Pelham, Esq; SIR, AVING finished this First Volume of the Hiftory of the Life and Times of that great Prelate and (M.CPPM) 14422 A 2 WOLSEY, WOLSEY, I have prefumed to Dedicate it to You; because (Pardon me, if I am mistaken) you seem to have pay'd a most remarkable Regard to his Memory, by preferving, with the greatest Exactness, the Structure and Form of an Antient, Beautiful, and Magnificent Building,* that once had fo Eminent a Founder. THIS is (to me) an evident. Demonftration of Your Efteem for that Great Man, and was the Reason of my being ambi * At Efher in Surry. tious tious to prefix your Honourable Name to this Collection; hop ing it may may meet with your favourable Reception, which will certainly give it a confiderable Weight with the Publick, and add a fingular Pleasure to, SIR, Your most Humble, and Moft Obedient Servant. April 26, 1742. |