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privatisque_fw-la erant_fw-la monumentis_fw-la incensa_fw-la urbe_fw-la pleraque_fw-la periere_fw-la liv._o imit_n lib._n 6._o 6._o vossius_fw-la de_fw-la hist._n lat._n lib._n 1._o cap._n 44._o &_o lib._n 2._o 2._o lib._n 1._o against_o appion_n appion_n brittann_n cap._n scoti_n passim_fw-la but_o especial_o pag._n 242._o these_o be_v the_o point_n i_o say_v which_o i_o will_v wish_v the_o scotish_n man_n diligent_o to_o think_v upon_o but_o let_v they_o remember_v that_o in_o the_o mean_a time_n i_o have_v affirm_v nothing_o but_o only_o give_v a_o inkling_n of_o certain_a thing_n which_o may_v seem_v in_o some_o sort_n material_a whence_o if_o the_o original_a of_o the_o scot_n have_v receive_v no_o light_n let_v they_o seek_v it_o elsewhere_o and_o i_o have_v in_o vain_a search_v but_o with_o that_o circumspect_a care_n that_o i_o hope_v i_o have_v not_o give_v the_o least_o offence_n to_o any_o whatsoever_o whatsoever_o praefat._n de_fw-fr primord_v eccl._n brit._n in_o nostra_fw-la autem_fw-la ex_fw-la omni_fw-la scriptorum_fw-la genere_fw-la promiscue_n congesta_fw-la farragine_fw-la siquis_fw-la obscuriorum_fw-la authorum_fw-la citata_fw-la mirabitur_fw-la testimonia_fw-la cogitare_fw-la illum_fw-la velim_fw-la aliud_fw-la esse_fw-la historiam_fw-la scribere_fw-la aliud_fw-la materiam_fw-la hinc_fw-la inde_fw-la conveâ—ere_fw-la unde_fw-la delectu_fw-la adhibito_fw-la etc._n etc._n sect_n 2._o what_o proof_n we_o can_v adduce_v for_o our_o history_n and_o first_o of_o our_o tradition_n tradition_n disciplina_fw-la in_o britannia_fw-la reperta_fw-la atque_fw-la inde_fw-la in_o galliam_n translata_fw-la esse_fw-la existimatur_fw-la caes._n bell._n gall._n lib._n 6._o multa_fw-la de_fw-la ex_fw-la eorum_fw-la motu_fw-la de_fw-la mundi_fw-la ac_fw-la terrarum_fw-la magnitudine_fw-la de_fw-la rerum_fw-la natura_fw-la de_fw-la deorum_fw-la immortalium_fw-la vi_fw-la &_o potestate_fw-la disputant_n &_o juventute_fw-la tradunt_fw-la ibid._n come_v in_o publicis_fw-la rationibus_fw-la &_o privivatis_fw-la graecis_fw-la literis_fw-la utantur_fw-la ibid._n by_o publicae_fw-la rationes_fw-la be_v probable_o mean_v their_o history_n at_o least_o it_o be_v most_o reasonable_a to_o think_v that_o since_o they_o have_v the_o use_n of_o letter_n they_o will_v have_v write_v history_n or_o some_o short_a memorial_n memorial_n pag._n 96._o edit_fw-la casaubon_n casaubon_n pag._n 71._o sect_n 3._o proof_n from_o manuscript_n and_o record_n record_n beda_n passim_fw-la passim_fw-la lib._n 4._o cap._n 26._o 26._o pag._n 229._o 229._o pag._n 13._o 13._o pag._n 24._o 24._o pag._n 94._o 94._o pag._n 95_o &_o 96._o 96._o part_n post._n post._n pag._n 100_o &_o pag._n 460._o 460._o et_fw-fr lib._n 7._o 7._o asservantur_fw-la in_o arcanis_fw-la templi_fw-la armariis_fw-la vetustissimorum_fw-la annalium_fw-la codices_fw-la atque_fw-la item_n latae_fw-la membranae_fw-la ipsorum_fw-la regum_fw-la subscriptae_fw-la manibus_fw-la aureisque_fw-la vel_fw-la cereis_n sigillorum_fw-la imaginibus_fw-la obsignatae_fw-la quibus_fw-la antiquae_fw-la leges_fw-la edictaque_fw-la &_o finium_fw-la ac_fw-la civitatum_fw-la jura_n publica_fw-la continentur_fw-la continentur_fw-la pag._n 38._o pref._n pref._n lib._n 7._o 7._o pag._n 26._o pref._n pref._n vicfort_n memoirs_fw-fr des_fw-fr ambassadeurs_fw-fr ambassadeurs_fw-fr pref._n new_a translat_n of_o plutarch_n life_n life_n pag._n 30._o pref._n pref._n ja_n quibus_fw-la scribendis_fw-la ne_fw-la historia_fw-la lex_fw-la violaretur_fw-la illae_fw-la quae_fw-la prius_fw-la scripta_fw-la sunt_fw-la non_fw-la solum_fw-la exegimus_fw-la