TO JOSEPH MUSGRAVE, Esq. OF KYPIER, IN THE BISHOPRIC OF DURHAM.
SIR,
Be pleased to accept this tribute of grateful respect
for the friendship you have honored me with, a
friendship begun in our early days, when we first
imbibed the rudiments of our education at the same
seminary of learning in the county of Kent, whilst
we were under our respective paternal roofs in the
same neighbourhood. Your property in the county,
your encouragement of learning, and of this History
in particular in the earliest publication of it, joined
with your well-known liberality of sentiment, will, I
am certain, induce you to continue your patronage
to this Edition, and the Author of it, which will
add to those savors you have already conferred on
him, who is, with much respect,
SIR,
Your most faithful
and obliged humble Servant,
EDWARD HASTED.
LONDON,
Dec. 10, 1798.