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To the Reader.
READER,
THou hast here presented to thy view a Collection of the VVorthies of England, which might have appeared larger, had God spared [my dear Father] the Author life. At his death there remained un∣printed, the Bishoprick of Durham, the Counties of Derby, Dorset, Gloucester, Norfolk, Northampton, Nor∣thumberland, Nottingham, Oxford, Rutland, with part of Kent, Devonshire, and the Cities of London and Westminster, which now at length (according to the Copy the Author left be∣hind him, without the least Addition) are made publick.
It is needless here to acquaint thee with the nature of the Work, it being already fully set down in the first sixteen sheets thereof. Yet thou mayst be pleased to take notice, that (although the Title promiseth thee only the History of the Worthies of England) in the end there is added a short Description of the Principality of Wales.
The discounting of Sheets (to expedite the Work at severall Presses) hath occasioned the often mistake of the Folio's. What ever faults else occur in this Impression, it is my request, that thou wouldest score them on my want of Care or Skill in Correcting the same, that they may not in the least reflect on the Credit of my dead Father.
JOHN FULLER.