Please know, courteous reader, that since the previous printing of this book its gifted author has died, leaving a carefully corrected copy with several substantial additions in his own hand. He entrusted this copy to my care and keeping, with instructions to have those additions inserted in the next edition. In obedience to his wishes, and for the public good, this has been faithfully carried out in the present printing.
H. C.
Printed by R. W. for Henry Cripps of Oxford, and sold by Andrew Crook in St Paul’s Churchyard, and by Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd in Pope’s Head Alley. 1651.