with which they are ornamented, he will tell him of the many illustrious parties, who claim these brilliant honours, and he will also disclose various particulars relative to the other members of the family of John Halle. Many other subjects will, of course, arise up in this intended volume, which will call for the exertions of the Author's pen, but which it is unnecessary for him now to particularise; and, at its close, (as in the present instance,) he will illustrate it with such notes, as he may deem necessary, and interesting.
With reference to his notes, the Author desires to say a few words. As, in the progress of his volume, various subjects of enquiry, some of them novel, and curious, in themselves, arose to his notice, he marked them, as he proceeded, with numerical references; and, last of all, he wrote the correspondent notes, which, he confesses, in many instances, assume the appearance of disquisitions. For these lengthy, and anomalous, notes his judgment, mayhap, may be impugned, but he takes shelter under the example of an author far greater than himself -whom he follows, sed à longo intervallo-that of Robertson in his excellent histories of Charles, the Fifth, &c.
The reader may, possibly, expect some explanation relative to the motto of the frontispiece. This motto "Hoc Opus, Hic Labor est" is in the well-known words of Virgil, who (as