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I Have ranked all Persons under their respective Titles, according to their Seniority of the Ages they lived in. I have endeavored to Time-Eminent Persons by one of these Notations, First, that of their Morning or Nativity, the second, that of their
Noon or Flourishing, the last, that of their Night or Death.
By AMP. (i. e. Ampliandum.) prefixed to the Names of some Persons, I understood a further Enquiry to be made about the places of their Birth. AMP. also is used in the Arms of Sheriffs, where there are different Coats of very Ancient Families, and largely diffused, as Nevil, Ferrers, Basset, &c.
S. N. (i. e. Second Nativity) is likewise to denote the place of Advancement of some Eminent Persons, where the place of their Birth is not known.
REM. (i. e. Remove) for the like Reason, when I place any Person of Worth in a County, where he was not Born, but was a Sojourner only. Where the same Persons may be ranked under divers Topics, I bring them under that, which is the most Eminent.