BY DR. WILLIAM KING,

PRINCIPAL OF ST. MARY HALL, OXON.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

1818.

Charles T.Harbeck

OA MAR OA

PUBLIC LIBRARY

267357

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1964

*Charles T. Harbeck

24, MAR 04

T. DAVISON, LOMBARD-STREET, WHITEFRIARS, LONDON.

ADVERTISEMENT.

A FRIEND, who was a long time a prisoner in France, met with the following work in the possession of two ladies, relatives of the writer, Dr. King. From the interesting passages which he was permitted to extract, the Editor conceived that the original might be well worthy of publication; he therefore desired his friend to procure it, and found, on a comparison of the hand-writing with that which is well ascertained to be Dr. King's, in the account-books of St. Mary Hall in Oxford (of which he was many years the principal), that there is every reason to suppose this MS. to have been written by Dr. King himself. From certain minute additions and corrections of the