THE

Lane

HISTORY

OF THE

LIVE S

OF

ABEILLARD and HELOISA;

COMPRISING A PERIOD OF EIGHTY-FOUR YEARS,
From 1079 to 1163.

WITH THEIR

GENUINE

LETTER S,

FROM THE COLLECTION OF AMBOISE.

THE SECOND EDITION.

Perfonne n'eft obligé d'écrire l'hiftoire; mais quiconque l'entreprend
f'engage à dire la vérité toute entiere.

FLEURY DISC. 4.

By the Rev. JOSEPH BERING TO N:

BIRMINGHAM: PRINTED BY M. SWINNEY;
FOR G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, IN PATER-NOSTER-ROW,
AND R. FAULDER, NEW BOND-STREET, LONDON.

M.DCC.LXXXVIIL

ADVERTISEMENT.

T

HE indulgence with which the public has received

the Hiftory of Abeillard and Heloifa, induces me to venture on this fecond edition. I have made no alterations in the work itself; because the expediency of doing it was not fuggefted even by the critics. But I have prefixed an Introduction of some length, containing a general view of that part of the eleventh century, which had preceded the period I defcribed. It will be given gratis to the purchasers of the first edition. The whole volume I now mean fhould be an Introduction to the hiftory of the fucceeding periods, which I purpose, at my leifure, to carry down to the beginning of the fixteenth century. It comprifes three hundred and fifty years. Two large

volumes, I hope, will contain the whole, which shall be published feparately.

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