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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD THURLOW, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND; THE FOLLOWING TRAGEDY OF XIMENES (WHO WAS, MANY YEARS, CONNECTED WITH A COURT, YET ALWAYS PRESERVED A SPIRIT OF INDEPENDENCE; WHO ADMINISTERED EQUITY, WITH THE MOST CONSCIENTIOUS IMPARTIALITY; WHO, IN THE MOST TRYING JUNCTURES OF AN ACTIVE AND ARDUOUS LIFE, WAS DETERMINED, AND INTREPID) IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S OBLIGED, AND MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHOUR.