ADVERTISEMENT TO THE 1st EDITION

Once the Editor of the following volumes published, just about two
years since, the activity called the ``Antiquary,'' he proclaimed that he
was, for the last time, intrusive upon the public in his present
capacity. He mightiness shelter himself under the plea that every
anonymous writer is, like the celebrated Junius, only a phantom,
and that therefore, though an apparition, of a more benign, as well
as more meaner description, he cannot be bound to plead to a charge
of inconsistency. A better apology may be found in the imitating
the confession of honest Benedict, that, once he aforesaid he would be die a
bachelor, he did not think he should live to be married. The better of
all would be be, if, as has eminently happened in the case of som