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To the Honourable

Sir Hans Sloane, Bart

PRESIDENT OF THE Royal Society, and M. D

Sir,

IT is with the greatest Satisfaction that I now lay before you the Performance of those Commands, with which you were pleased to honour me, of collecting the Chirurgical Pieces which were singly published by Mr Beckett in his Life time.

This Gentleman might be said to have been begotten in his Profession, as being the Son of Mr Isaac Beckett, Surgeon of Abington in Berkshire, where he was born in the Year 1684.

He received his Education under Mr Pledwell, then Master of the excellent Free Grammar-School belonging to that Town, served four Years of his Apprenticeship with his Father, and the three last with Mr Joseph Bateman, of St Thomas’s Hospital in Southwark.

Mr Beckett died, Sir, at his Sister’s House in Abington, November the 25th 1738, in the 54th Year of his Age, and lies interred in St Hellen’s Church there.

Of this his Native Place, he drew up a Brief Account of it’s History and Antiquities.1

A faithful Account of his Writings is prefixed to this Volume; your Generous Patronage of which, he would himself have looked upon as the greatest Honour and Friendship that could be conferred on his Labours, and for which, I most humbly request your Acceptance of the Grateful Acknowledgments of,

Sir,

Your Obedient,

And Obliged,

Humble Servant,

E. C.

June 29,

1740.