TO THE READER.

HAVING the following letters from that most excellent and learned person, Henry Newton, ambassador extraordinary from the most serene queen of Great Britain to his royal highness the most serene grand duke of Tuscany, to whose singular goodness I am very much indebted; I thought I should do a very acceptable thing to all that love the name of GROTIUS, and no small honour to the church of England, if I published them here. It appears plainly from them, that this very great man had the highest opinion of the church of England, and would Most willingly have lived in it, if he could. Make the best use of them you can therefore, courteous reader, and continue to have a good opinion of a man that deserved so well of the whole body of Christians.