Présentation de l'éditeur
London s Lamentations there will be found in the present concluding volume certain minor writings of Brooks, of some of which the Editor had despaired securing copies having searched in vain for most of them in all our great Libraries, and applied with similar result to innumerable book-lovers and booksellers. He has not anywhere chanced upon another copy besides his own of either the Heavenly Cordial or of The Legacy of a Dying Mother; while years since the learned editor of the Depositions from the Castle of York, relating to Offences committed in the Northern Counties in the Seventeenth Century, for the Surtees Society James Eaine, Esq., with reference to the Funeral Sermon of Colonel Eainsborough, designated it a very rare tract, and congratulated himself that by the kindness of a local Bibliopole he was able to give a copy of the title. i A part from the intrinsic A vorth of these excessively scarce, if not unique tractates, it is exceedingly satisfactory to the Editor that he has been enabled by lucky chances to present the entire writings of Brooks in this like Sibbes first collective edition. As simple matter of fact, the Works given nthese six volumes could not be purchased in the market in the original and early editions for as many pounds as the shillings they cost in this form :and it is ventured to indulge a hope that the accuracy of our reprint from a genuine and unmutilated text, the careful verification of the numerous Bible quotations and references, the annotation of names, c., and the Glossary and marking of Shakesperean words these sometimes explaining obscurities will be accepted as additions to their value. The Editor may be permitted to notice the copious I ndices. Ordinarily it is to be feared that labour spent on such work is ill appreciated, too many, as rare Thomas Fuller complained, regarding an index as the bag and baggage of a b
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