To have avoided it entirely, some of the MSS.

must have been rewritten.

But in one instance I discovered when it was too late that after searching for, and finding with difficulty and treating, an example which had not been supplied, I had forestalled a subsequent examination of the same passage from his abler hand.

However I hope that in nearly all, if not all cases, each treatment involves some new contribution to the question discussed; and that our readers will kindly make allowance for the perplexity which such an assemblage of separate papers could not but entail.
My thanks are again due to the Rev.G.H.Gwilliam, B.D., Fellow of Hertford College, for much advice and suggestion, which he is so capable of giving, and for his valuable care in looking through all the first proofs of this volume; to 'M.

W.,' Dean Burgon's indefatigable secretary, who in a pure labour of love copied out the text of the MSS.
before and after his death; also to the zealous printers at the Clarendon Press, for help in unravelling intricacies still remaining in them.
This treatise is now commended to the fair and candid consideration of readers and reviewers.