Memorials of affairs of state in the reigns of Q Elizabeth and K James I. . Mi is T O T H E Right Honourable ROBERT fFALPOLE, Efq^ Firft Lord Coiiimiffioner of the Trea-fiiry, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Under-Treafiirer; and one ofHis Majestys Moft HonourablePrivy Council. SIR, HE Dignity of the Subjed, and thegreat and deferved Merit of theAuthors of thefe Memoirs, will, Ihope, excufe my Prefumption, inattempting to introduce them to the Worldunder Your Patronage: An Honour, whichyet I would not have fought, had I not beenwell perfwaded, that whatever in the leaft tendsto the Service of
Memorials of affairs of state in the reigns of Q Elizabeth and K James I. . Mi is T O T H E Right Honourable ROBERT fFALPOLE, Efq^ Firft Lord Coiiimiffioner of the Trea-fiiry, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Under-Treafiirer; and one ofHis Majestys Moft HonourablePrivy Council. SIR, HE Dignity of the Subjed, and thegreat and deferved Merit of theAuthors of thefe Memoirs, will, Ihope, excufe my Prefumption, inattempting to introduce them to the Worldunder Your Patronage: An Honour, whichyet I would not have fought, had I not beenwell perfwaded, that whatever in the leaft tendsto the Service of your Countrey, cannot failof your DEDICATION. And indeed, a Work of this Nature, of allothers, claims a Right to the Protection of aPatron of the moft illuftrious Charader anddiftinguifhd Merit. The great and generousMaxims by which our Anceflors governdthemfelves, may perhaps amufe and pleafe,and excite in us fome faint Defires to imi-tate them , but when they ftand exemplifydin the Condu£t of fo great, fo fincere a Pa-triot, tis then they ftrike us with an irrefifti-ble Force j and oblige us to confefs, that theonly Way to true and lafting Honour, is bya ileady Purfuit of it in the Paths of Virtueand Integrity. This, Sir, has been fo eminently Your Pra-ctice, that every Adion of Your Life is aProof of it. How early did You appear inthe Glorious Caufe of Liberty and Your Coun-trey, and with what immoveable Firmnefs andConftancy have You on all Occafions main-tained its true Interefts! When a dark andmelancholy Cloud hung over our Heads, andwe faw nothing but Ruin before our Eyes, howbravely did You then oppofe Your
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