AAN D DISCOURSES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS AND OCCASIONS. B Y FRANCIS ATTERBURY, D. D. Late Lord Bifhop of RocHESTER, IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. I. THE NINTH EDITION. N DO N Mr DCC. LXXIV. Prelate of the Moft Noble Order of the GARTER. May it pleafe Your Lordship, a O accept this public Teftimony of Gratitude, from a man who stands indebted to Your LORDSHIP for many favours, great in themfelves, but made much greater by your free and generous manner of conferring them. For they were not the effects of importunity, or the juft rewards of domeftic fervice; they fprang not from dependence, or acquaintance; being bestowed on one, who was (at the firft) little known to your Lordship, otherwise than by his honeft endeavours to retrieve thofe Synodical Rights of the clergy, a 2 |