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Swedilh gentlemen, well verfed in the conftitution of their country,
have fupplied much additional intelligence.
As the materials which I acquired in Denmark were lefs extenfive
than thofe collefted in the other parts, the account of that kingdom
is confined to thofe circumftances which I was able to afcertain, it
having been my invariable refolution never to adopt uncertain accounts,
but to adhere folely to thofe fails which appeared to me
to be derived from the moft unqueftionable authorities.
In the hiftorical relations I have had recourfe to many Engliih
and foreign authors, and particularly feveral German writers of unimpeached
veracity, who were refident for a confiderable time in
fome of the Northern kingdoms, and from whom I have drawn
many anecdotes not known to the Engliih reader.
Throughout this work I have fcrupuloufly cited the authors
whom I have confulted, and have fubjoined in the Appendix to the
firft volume a lift of the principal books employed on this occalion,
with an explanation of the references hy which they are diftin-
guilhed.
I cannot clofe this preface without expreffing my obligations to
Mr. Wraxall, Mr. Pennant, and Dr. Pulteney, for their relpeftive
affiftance, acknowledged in the courfe of the work. Colonel Floyd
alio claims my fincereft thanks for communicating his accurate
Journal of our Tour, to whofe obfervations and defcriptions, befide
the ext rafts in the following pages, I gratefully confefs myfelf indebted
for many interefting particulars,
L I S T
L I S T
O F
S U B S C R I B E R S .
THE KING.
S T A N IS L A U S A U G U S T U S King of PO L A N D .
His Serenity PAULO R E N IE R Doge of V E N IC E .
A.
E a rl o f A ylefbury
Bilhop o f S t. Afaph
R ig h t Hon. Lad y Am h e rft
C aptain Affleck
M rs. Allanfon,Studley P a rk , Y o rk lh ire
M ifs Afhby
E dm u n d A n tro b u s , E fq;
M r. A u g u ftin , Counfellor o f S ta te to
th e King o f D enmark
W illiam A d a ir, E fq ; A . M . L in -
coln’s-Inn
George Atwood, Efqj A . M .
B.
D u k e o f Bedford
Dutchefs of Buccleugb
M arq u e is o f Blandford
E a rl o f Briftol
E a rl o f Bute, K . G .
Countefs B ath u rft
Lad y Frances Burgoyne
M o n tag u Burgoyne, Efq-,
M rs. M. Burgoyne
H o n . W illiam Hen ry B o u v e r ieM .P .
H o n . Edward Bouverie
c
H o n . Bartholemew Bouverie
Sir P e te r B u rre ll, M . P .
Stephen Beckingham, Efq;
Rev. W illiam B arford, Preb en d a ry o f
Canterbury
R ev. Th om as B alg u y , D . D . Prebendary
o f W inchefter
Alexander Bayley, Efq;
W illiam Bell, E fq ;
J o h n Berens, Efq;
Jofeph Berens, Efq;
J a co b Bryant, Efq; $ copies
L auncelot Brown, Efq; M. P .
S tam p Bro o k lb an k , Efq;
Biddle, M . D . Senior Fellow o f
King’s College, Cambridge
Edward Barnard, E fq ; Fellow C om moner
o f S t.J o h n ’s Col. C am b rid g e
J o h n Barnard, E fq ;
Bentinck, E fq ; Fellow C om moner
o f Q u e en ’s Coll. Cam bridge
Rev. H e n ry B ath u rft, L L . D . Canon
o f Chrift C hurch College, Oxford
Rev. Broad, D . D . o f S o u th -
wick, No rth am p to n lh ire
Jo h n Th om as B att, Efq;
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