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DEDICATION.

rily preſented you by all Ranks and Degrees of People, on that momentous Occaſion? It will be for ever remembered, there was not a Borough of any Note, nor Body of Men of any Conſequence, throughout the Three Kingdoms, who did not teſtify their Acknowledgment of your Valour and Conduct, and confeſs the Bleſſings, derived to every Individual, by your Prudence, Reſolution, and Intrepidity. But what crowned even your own Wiſhes, and gave a Luſtre (if I may ſo term it) to the Glory you acquired, was that ſolemn Act of Thanks and Approbation unanimouſly agreed to by each of the Two

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