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ST. ANDREW BY THE WARDROBE, AND

ST. ANN'S, BLACKFRIARS;

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PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY;

AND SOLD BY VERNOR AND HOOD, BIRCHIN LANE, CORN-
HILL; MATHEWS, NO. 18, STRAND; LEWIS AND

FIENES, CHELSEA; COOKE, OXFORD; SMART

AND COWSLADE, READING; AND.

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PREFACE.

THE following Life of the Rev. William Romaine was undertaken at the request of his nearest relatives. It was promifed to the public under the first impreffions made by his death, and under an idea that fuch documents might have been collected from his own papers as would have furnished fome of the best materials for his Biographers. But nothing of this fort was found, excepting one memorandum upon his attaining the age of feventy years, which is given in the course of this work, though it does not appear to have been defigned for publication. Great as is the lofs of the furvivors, it is much to the honour of the deceased, that, though he had the pen of a ready writer, he employed it not upon himself, but upon his God and Saviour. Upon whose word, and upon whose falvation, he hath written largely with his own hand, and left confiderable remains behind him.

Disappointed in my expectations of gleaning memoirs of his life from his own manuscripts, and having time to reflect upon an undertaking, in the exe

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