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POSTSCRIPT.
APologies are never excusable, but where there are errors real or belie∣ved; and here they are too visible to need an Asteric: the Authors distance from the Press hath given security to some Erratas to pass uncontrouled; and many Marginal Citations stand awry, sometimes advanced too high, and at other times depressed too low, which will need the ingenuity of a kind Reader to rectify: to whom the Author will hold himself a Debter for his pains, and im∣pose no farther trouble on him, but to add these few words to Page 84. The right of the Crown to the first Fruits and Tenths in England, accrues from a joint consent of the whole Church, by an Instrument passed in full Convocation in the reign of Hen. 8. A. D. 1534, to transfer the same; which were resigned to the Church again, after twenty years pos∣session by Queen Mary, A. D. 1554, as judged unlawful for her to hold: yet the emptiness of her Exchequer caused her to reseize them not long after, for supply of present wants. Since which time they have continued in the Crown without interruption; wants being as easy to be pretended now as ever, and can never fail to a Covetous mind.