SIR,

Right Honourable

Henry Pelham, Efq;

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AVING finished this
H First Volume of the
Hiftory of the Life and

Times of that great Prelate and
Minister of State, CARDINAL

WOLSEY,

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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 Demonstration of Your Efteem for that Great Man, and was the Reason of my being ambi

tious

At Efber in Surry.

tious to prefix your Honourable Name to this Collection; hoping it 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 moft Humble, and

Moft Obedient Servant.

April 26, 1742.