ΤΟ Sir John Courtenay Throckmorton, ᏴᎪᎡᎢ . DEAR SIR, Ir was my intention to dedicate these Sheets to Mr. Fox: To whom, can I now dedicate them with more propriety than You? Your approbation of his political principles and conduct, and personal attachment to him, are generally known;-All his friends are sensible of his high esteem of you.-I myself heard that great man say, he scarcely knew a person from whom it was less safe to differ, than Sir JOHN THROCKMORTON. Permit me, therefore to inscribe the last, as I did the first of these compilations, with your name. I am, dear Sir, Your most obliged and Lincoln's Inn, 1807. obedient humble Servant, CHARLES BUTLER. CONTENTS. Comprising the Period, from the General Division of the Roman Empire between Arcadius and Hono- rius, the Sons of Theodosius the first, to the Re- 10 |