Mr. JUSTICE HALES,

ONE OF THE JUDGES

OF THE

COMMON PLEAS:

AND TO THE MUCH HONOURED

Edward Heywood, John Vaughan,. and Rowland Jewks, Efqrs.

MOST WORTHY GENTLEMEN,

WERE you not executors to that person, who, while he lived, was the glory of the nation, yet I am confident any thing of his would find acceptance with you, and truly the fenfe and notion here is wholly his, and most of the words. I had the opportunity to hear his difcourfes twenty years together, and left all thofe excellent things that usu-. ally fell from him might be loft, fome of them from time to time I faith

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