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To The

RIGHT HONORABLE

FULKE Lord BROOKE

of

Beauchamp's Court.

My Lord;

HAving Compleated the fifteenth Korlume of the Philoſophical Tranſ-
actions, ( which contains part of the great Stock of Experimental Learning, communicated to the Royal Society of the laſt year,) I now Humbly Dedicate it to Your Lordſhip; A perſon of Honor, always ready to Favor, whatever makes for the Improvement of Knowledge, and the Public Good.

But this imperfect Character of Your Lordſhip, tho' of it ſelf ſufficient to Fuftily the preſent Addreſs, is not the only Inducement to it: I could mention, how much We are all indebted to Your Lordſhip, for a Uniform and Steddy Loyalty to the King, and a Pious Love for Your Country