ADVERTISEMENT. will be found that in this Volume I have assigned a large space to the attempt at Comprehension in the year 1689-as it is a subject of present interest, and because the proceedings connected with it have been but inadequately described. An examination of the Bill introduced for the purpose to the House of Lords—a comparison of the Journals of both Houses, whence it appears that another Bill of the same kind was contemporaneously proposed in the House of Commons-the report of the proceedings of the Commissioners in 1689, published by order of the House of Commons in 1854-and a curious Diary preserved in Dr. Williams' Library— together with other original sources of information, have enabled me to present a fuller, and, I hope, more accurate, account of that important but ineffective transaction than has hitherto appeared. As I believe the Lords' Bill has never been printed, I have arranged for its insertion in the Appendix. A large collection of Tracts in Dr. Williams' Library, besides those in the British Museum and University Libraries-the Tanner MSS. at Oxford-the Strype and other collections belonging to the Sister University-and the Gibson Papers at Lambeth, have also afforded a |