_Stillingfleet_, the present Bishops _of Worcester_, _Bath_
and _Wells_, _Carlisle_, St. _Asaph_, St. _Davids_, _Lincoln_,
_Rochester_, with many other Divines of the first Rank.]

[Footnote B: The Lord Chief Justice _Cook_, Mr. _Lombard_,
_Selden_, _Whitlock_, Lord Chief Justice _Hales_, and _Parker_,
Mr. _Fortescue_ of the Temple, and others.]

[Footnote C: _Leland_, who writes in a Latin Style in Prose and
Verse, as polite and accurate as can be boasted of by any of
our modern Wits. _Jocelin_, _Spelman_, both Father and Son,
_Cambden_, _Whelock_, _Gibson_, and many more of all Ranks and
Qualities, whose Names deserve well to be mention'd with Respect,
were there room for it in this place.]

But to leave these Pedagogues to huff and swagger in the heighth of
all their Arrogance. I cannot but think it great Pity, that in our
Considerations, for Refinement of the _English_ Tongue, so little
Regard is had to Antiquity, and the Original of our present Language,
which is the _Saxon_. This indeed is allow'd by an ingenious Person,
who hath lately made some Proposals for the Refinement of the
_English_ Tongue, _That the old _Saxon_, except in some few Variations
in the Orthography, is the same in most original Words with our
present _English_, as well as with the _German_ and other _Northern_
Dialects; _which makes it a little surprizing to me, to find the same
Gentleman not long after to say, _The other Languages of _Europe_
I know nothing of, neither is there any occasion to consider them:
_because, as I have before observ'd, it must be very difficult to
imagin, how a Man can judge of a thing he knoweth nothing of, whether
there can be occasion or no to consider it. I must confess I hope