TO THE

REV. WILLIAM FREMANTLE, M.A.,

RECTOR OP CLAYDON AND VICAR OF STEEPLE CLAYDON.

MY

DEAR

FREMANTLE,

I S the following pages owe their existence to the perusal of the proof-sheets of your Sermon on The Crucifixion, preached at St Mary's, Oxford, last year, and to our conversations and correspondence on the subject of it, I feel bound in justice, no less than moved by inclination, to inscribe them to you. I was encouraged, moreover, to pursue my researches, by finding that you thought my original suggestions concerning Rhesa, and concerning the identity of Hananiah and Joanna, and of Hodaiah, Juda, and Abiud, and my proposed rectification of 1 Chron. iii. 21, 22, sufficiently probable to give them a place in your Appendix (pp. 3336). Subsequent reflection and study have greatly confirmed my own belief in the truth of those suggestions : as regards the removal of Rhesa from the