[1] The title of the book is _Historia Flagellantium, de recto &
perverso flagrorum usu apud Christianos_, 12mo. Parisiis, apud J.
Anisson, Typographiæ Regiæ Præfectum, MDCC.
[2] Our author, who was rather singular in the choice of his
subjects, had written another treatise _De tactibus impudicis
prohibendis_, and another on the dress of clergymen, wherein he
attempted to prove that they might as well wear it short as long.
[3] The same manner of writing is also to be met with in most of
the treatises that were written in England, France, and especially
Germany, about an hundred years ago, or more, when a mechanical
knowledge of Latin and Greek books, and making compilations from
them, was the kind of learning in vogue.
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