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To the READER.
Ingenuous Reader,
THese ensuing Lines were not fixed to this Treatise to commend its worth unto thee; for, if I can judge rightly, it needs them not, as I doubt not but thou wilt con∣fess upon the perusal of it. And this made me some years past take some pains in correcting many Errataes of the Press, and explaining many obscurities I met with; and in shew∣ing the reason of the Law in many places, without any other aim than my own private satisfaction. But since that understanding an intent of Re-printing of the Copy, I thought it not amiss to impart what I had done to the Undertakers thereof; not only for their benefit, but for the Readers clea∣rer information, and easier understanding of the greater variety of the matters therein contained, and in the former Edition very briefly, and in many places obscurely set forth. If my pains herein may prove pro∣fitable to any, I shall think it well bestow∣ed; however I shall rest satisfied with this perswasion, That neither the Printers nor Readers can be prejudiced by these my well intended endeavours.
William Style.