(...)"PREFACE.
I.
THE original Edition of theLivEs OF SAINTS WRITTEN BY THE REVEREND ALBAN BUTLER was published, in different portions, between the years 1754 and 1760. The author died in the year 1773, having bequeathed all his manuscripts, and a valuable part of his library, to his nephew, Mr. Charles Butler, of Lincoln's-inn, the writer of The CONTINUATION, now presented to the Public.
In the short account published by him of the life of Mr. Alban Butler, he has noticed that, at the recommendation of Doctor Challoner, then the vicar-apostolic of the London district of English Catholics, Mr. Alban Butler curtailed extremely the matter intended to(...)"