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On collecting into one volume Tracts written at long intervals of time from each other, with the use of various libraries, and of different editions of the Fathers, I have some anxiety lest, in consequence, mistakes should be found in my references, in spite of the great pains I have taken to make them accurate. However, I give here, to the best of my power, a list of the Editions I have followed:—

Africanus, apud Routh. Relliqu. Sacr. t. ii.
Ambrosius, Paris. 1686, &c. ed. Benedict. seu. Maurin.
Anastasius Sinaita, Ingolstad. 1606, Gretser.
Athanasius, Paris. 1698 (Montfaucon), Maurin.
Athenagoras, Venet. 1747, Maurin.
Augustinus, Paris. 1689, &c. Maurin.
Basilius Magnus, Paris. 1721, &c. Maurin.
Basilius Seleuc. Paris. 1622, Dausque.
Bibliotheca Patrum, Colon. 1618.
—— Paris. Quart. 1624.
—— Lugdun. Max. 1677.
—— Venet. 1765, &c. Galland.
Chrysostomus Joannes, Paris. 1718, &c. (Montfaucon), Maurin.
Clemens Alex. Oxon. 1715, Potter.
Collectanea Monumentorum, Romæ, 1698, Zacagn.
Collectio Nova Patrum, Paris. 1706 (Montfaucon), Maurin.
Conciliorum Collectio Regia, Paris. 1715, Harduin.
Concilium Antiochenum, ap. Routh. Rell. S. t. ii.
Cyprianus, Venet. 1758, Maurin.
Cyrillus Alex. Lutet. 1638, Aubert.
Cyrillus Hieros. Paris. 1720, Maurin.
Damascenus Joannes, Venet. 1748, Lequien.
Didymus, Bonon. 1769, Mingarelli.
Dionysius Alex. ap. Athan. et Rell. S. Routh. t. iii.
Dionysius Rom. ibid.
Ephraëm, ap. Photium.
Epiphanius, Colon. 1682, Petav.
Epistola ad Diognetum, ap. Justin. Opp.
Epistolæ Pontif. Roman. Paris. 1721 (Coustant.), Maurin.
Eulogius, ap. Photium.
Eusebius, Histor. Eccles. Amstelod. 1695, Vales.
—— Laud. Constant. Amstelod. 1695, Vales.
—— Præpar. Colon. 1688.
—— Demonstr. Colon. 1688.
—— c. Marcell. &c. Colon. 1688.
Euthymius, Lips. 1792, Matthæi.
Facundus, ap. Opp. Sirmondi, t. ii.
Gregorius Nazianz. Paris. 1778, 1840, Maurin.
Gregorius Neocæsar. (Thaumaturg.) Paris. 1622.
Gregorius Nyssen, Opp. Paris. 1615, &c.
—— Antirrhet. ap. Collectan. Zacagn.
Hieronymus, Venet. 1766, Vallars.
Hilarius Pictav. Paris. 1693, Maurin.
Hippolytus, Opp. Hamburg. 1716, Fabric.
—— c. Noëtum, ap. Opuscula, Routh.
—— Elenchus, Oxon. 1851, Miller.
Incerti Dialogi, ap. Athan. Opp. t. ii.
Irenæus, Venet. 1734, Maurin.
Isidorus Pelus. Paris. 1638.
Justinus Mart. Venet. 1747, Maurin.
Lactantius, Lutet. 1748, Dufresnoi.
Leo Magnus, Venet. 1753, &c. Ballerin.
Leontius, ap. Bibl. P. Colon. et Venet. Galland. et Thesaur. Canis. t. i.
Malchion, ap. Rell. S. Routh. t. ii.
Maximus, Paris. 1675, Combefis.
Melito, ap. Rell, S. Routh. t. i.
Mercator, Paris. 1673, Garner.
Methodius, ap. Bibl. P. Venet. Galland. t. iii.
Novatianus, Londini, 1728, Jackson.
Opera Varia Sirmondi, Venet. 1728, La Baume.
Opuscula Eccles. Oxon. 1832, Routh.
Origenes, Paris. 1733, &c. Maurin.
Philo, Francofurt. 1691.
Phœbadius, ap. Bibl. P. Venet. Galland. t. v.
Photius, Rothomag. 1653, Schott.
Plotinus, Oxon. 1835, Creuzer.
Proclus, Romæ, 1630, Riccard.
Relliquiæ Sacræ Patrum, Oxon. 1814, &c. Routh.
Rusticus, ap. Bibl. P. Colon. t. vi.
Socrates, Amstelod. 1695, Vales.
Sozomenus, Amstelod. 1695, Vales.
Tatianus, Venet. 1747, Maurin.
Tertullianus, Lutet. 1641, Rigalt.
Theodoretus, Opp. Halæ, 1769, &c. Schulze.
—— Hist. Eccl. Amstelod. 1695, Vales.
Theophilus, Venet. 1747, Maurin.
Thesaurus Eccles. Canisii, Antverp. 1725, Basnage.
Victorinus, ap. Bibl: P. Venet. Galland. t. viii.
Vigilius Thaps. ap. Bibl. P. Lugdun. t. viii.
Vincentius Lirin. ap. Bibl. P. Venet. Galland. t. x.
Zeno, Veron. 1739, Ballerin.

I thus complete the references made in the following places to Theodoret’s Hist. Eccles.:—

> Infr. p. 84, ed. Vales, ii. 27, p. 113,
ed. Schulze, ii. 23, p. 898.
Infr. p. 86, ed. Vales, ii. 8, p. 81,
ed. Schulze, ii. 6, p. 844.
Infr. p. 88, ed. Vales, i. 4, p. 15,
ed. Schulze, i. 3, p. 740.
Infr. p. 89, ed. Vales, ii. 22, p. 103,
ed. Schulze, ii. 17, p. 883.

I take this opportunity of acknowledging the special obligations I am under to the Rev. Fr. Henry Bittleston of this Oratory, as regards this and other of the new editions of my Volumes, for the service he has done me in bringing to my notice, as the proof sheets came down to me, various inaccuracies both of thought and language which required correction.

Birmingham,
January 5, 1874.