Excerpt from Works of the Right Reverend, George Hooper, D.D, Vol. 1: Sometime Bishop of Bath and Wells I have been the longer in my account of these Notes, be cause they are the onlv part (or entire article) of this collee tion that has not been printed before. And from what has been said of them it appears that they were intended for the press by the author himself, and that they are now printed at the desire of many that have thought them worthy of it. As to the other parts, they were all published before but some of them so many years ago, that they have long since been out of print, and were become extremely scarce. And others of themat either but to get them reprinted. Which way therefore several gentlemen of learning, both here and elsewhere, who were sensible of the worth and usefulness of these writings, and lamented they should be in so few hands, determined to take; and knowing I had the honour to be acquainted with bishop Hooper's family, and had formerly been intrusted by the Bishop himself with the care of publishing one of his learned works, desired I would intercede with them for leave to publish the rest. This I very readily consented to do, having the same opinion of them which these gentlemen had; and being more over apprehensive, that, should they not be collected together and reprinted, while there were people living who could vouch for their being his, some of them might gradually be thrown by and forgot; (especially as his name was to none of them but his sermons and he might lose the credit, and the public the advantage of them; consequences, which it became one who had received so many obligations from his lordship, and wished well to the interests of religion and learning, to endea vour to prevent. I therefore took the first opportunity to apply to his lordship's nearest relation for the leave desired; who readily granted it, and kindly furnished me with such books and papers as were necessary for carrying on the edition; de siring every thing might be done in a manner worthy of his lordship's character. 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.