The Dedication.
ter the Precedent of such Great and Royal Examples, when I understand that His Majesty, Your Royal Father, Our. most gracious Sovereign, who is a great Judge and Promoter of all good. Learning, doth in a more particular manner recommend: the cultivating the Study of the German Antiquities; in order to the: right Understanding and Frustration of which, the Knowledge of the English-Saxon Language and Antiquities, is so very necessary. I have but one thing more to add. that this Present, worthless as it is, is the humble Tribute of a Female; the First, I imagin, ofthe
