TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE STANDISH O'GRADY, LORD CHIEF BARON Of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer IN IRELAND. MY LORD CHIEF Baron, IN considering to whom I should dedicate this work, the high judicial rank and character of your Lordship, present you to me as one whose patronage I should be desirous of soliciting. But it is the recollection of favours you have kindly conferred upon me, and which I value the more because they were unsolicited, that induces me to seek the patron in the friend; and, with your permission, to inscribe this work to you, who, I am sure, will have every wish to promote its favourable reception, and every |