Excerpt from Reliquiae Hearnianae: The Remains of Thomas Hearne, M.A., Of Edmund Hall, Being Extracts From His Ms. Diaries, Collected With a Few Notes This age (says my friend) wants monitors to good ness, God knows, nay ev'n severe ones, to scare them out of ill practises. I do my part in speaking, you, whose pen is happier, by your immortal writings. My friend writ this in a letter to me, upon occasion of what I had said in my preface to Textus Rofen sis, which he had read with pleasure. I have read (saith be) your preface, which I like for being long. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.