MEMOIRS
OF THE
Twentieth Century.
Being Original Letters of STATE, under GEORGE the Sixth:
Relating to the moſt Important Events in Great-Britain and Europe, as to Church and State, Arts and Sciences, Trade, Taxes, and Treaties, Peace, and War:
And Characters of the Greateſt Persons of thoſe Times;
From the Middle of the Eighteenth, to the End of the Twentieth Century, and the WORLD.
Received and Revealed in the Year 1728;
And now Publiſhed, for the Inſtruction of all Eminent Stateſmen, Churchmen, Patriots, Politicians, Projectors, Papiſts, and Proteſtants.
In SIX VOLUMES.
Vol. I.
Mάντις ἄριστος ὅστις εἰκάζει καλὼς. Eurip.
Bon Dieu! que n'avons nous point veu reüſſir des conjectures de ce temps là comme si c'euſſent eſté autant de Propheties?
La Mothe Le Vayer Diſcourſe de l'Hiſtoire. Tom. I. p. 267.
Hoc apud nos quoque nuper ratio ad certum produxit. Veniet tempus, quo iſta quæ nunc latent, in lucem dies extrahat, & longioris ævi diligentia. Ad inquiſitionem tantorum ætas una non sufficit, ut tota cœlo vacet. Itaque per ſucceſſiones iſta longas explicabuntur. Veniet tempus, quo poſteri noſtri tam aperta nos neſciſſe mirentur, non licet ſtare cœleſtibus, nec averti: Prodeunt omnia; ut ſemel miſſa ſunt, vadunt. Idem erit illis curſus, qui ſui finis. Opus hoc æternum irrevocabiles habet motus.
Senecæ Nat. Quæſt. lib. 7. cap. 25.
LONDON:
Printed for Meſſieurs Osborn and Longman, Davis, and Batley, in Pater-noſter-Row; Strahan, and Clarke, in Cornhill; Rivington, Robinson, Astley, and Austen, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; Gosling, in Fleetſtreet; Nourse, by Temple-Bar; Prevost, and Millar, in the Strand; Parker, in Pall-Mall; Jolliffe, by St. James's; Brindley, Shropshire, and Smith, in Boudſtreet; and Gouge, and Stagg, in Weſtminſter-Hall. 1733.
