Guide to the History of the Laws and Constitutions of England: Consisting of Six Lectures, Delivered at the Colleges of Ss; Peter and Paul, Prior Park, Bath, in the Presence of the Bishop and His Clergy

Excerpt from Guide to the History of the Laws and Constitutions of England: Consisting of Six Lectures, Delivered at the Colleges of Ss; Peter and Paul, Prior Park, Bath, in the Presence of the Bishop and His Clergy

It is enough that, by your Lordship, an Endeavour is now being made, towards the Revival and Resumption of that holy Office. I wish, on every Account, that you had found One, better gifted than myself, to aid in the Attempt. But, being the First whom your Lordship was pleased to select to fill the new Chair, I felt myself bound to acquiesce in your Selection; and to do my best, so to discharge myself of the Duties imposed upon me, as, at Once, to carry out the Objects which I knew your Lordship to have in View, and to vindicate, to others, the Wisdom and the Practicability of the Experiment. When I entered upon my Functions, as your Professor of Law and Jurisprudence, such was my Thought; - and I kept it steadily before me. And now, moved by the same Considerations, I venture to give to this First Fruit of my Labours a wider Circulation, by Means of the public Press.

To the Undertaking, peculiar Difficulties opposed themselves. What those were, I have endeavoured, in my Introductory Lecture, to explain.

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