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HAving finiſhed a work touching the Advancement of Learning, and dedicated the ſame to his ſacred Majeſty, whom I dare avouch (if the records of time erre not) to be the learnedſt King that hath reigned; I was deſirous, in a kind of congruity, to preſent it by the learnedſt Councellor in this Kingdome, to the end, that ſo good an argument, lighting upon ſo bad an Author, might receive ſome reparation, by the hands into which, and by which, it ſhould be delivered.

This was the accompte, that the culinarian Doctour made of S. GREGORY the great; one of the holiest, & learnedst doctours, that euer breathed in the CATHOLIQVE Church;* […]

It is in the Poſſeſſion of a Benedictin Convent, vvhich raiſes a conſiderable Revenue out of the Devotion that is paid to it, and has novv retain'd the learnedſt Father of their Order to vvrite in its Defence.