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By WILLIAM HARRIS.

Ne quid falfi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.

CICERO,

THE SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for W. STRAHAN; T. BECKET and Co.
and T. CADELL in the Strand, and

S. BLADON, in Pater-Nofter-Row.

MDCCLXXII.

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11-11-33

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PREF A C E.

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HE defign of the following fheets is to. give a fuller and more diftinct view of the character of king James the first, than has ever yet been exhibited by any writer. It is readily acknowledged that this character is, in itself, a very mean and defpicable subject; but as it was attended with very extenfive and important confequences both in his and the fucceeding reigns; fo it is humbly prefumed that an attempt to illuftrate that period of English biftory which falls within the plan of this subject, will meet with a favourable acceptance from the public.

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There are inferted in these papers a great number of curious and interefting facts, entirely omitted by our hiftorians, who feem to have very little confulted thofe original writers, and state papers from whence the following account is chiefly compiled.

The author does not think it necessary to make any apology for the freedom of his reflections; but only to declare that they were not made for

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