British Library, Hargrave MS 311
May it please yo
I am afraid I have neglected the duty of the place it hath
pleased God to call me vnto and yo
But nowe I humbly crave leave I may discharge my conscience
toward God, and my dutie to yo
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a Toleration of Religion, I beseech yo
considerac
By yo
doctrine of the Church of Rome the whore of Babylon.
How hatefull it wilbe to God and greevous vnto yo
the true professors of the Gospell, that yo
disputed and learnedly written against those wicked heresies
should nowe shew yo
pen hath told the world and yo
sup
done in sending the Prince into Spaine w
Councell, the privitie and approbac
you have a large interest in the Prince as the sonne of yo
yet have the people a greater as the sonne of the kingdome,
vpon whom next after yo
depend, And so tenderly is his going apprehended as believe it
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into that Action so dangerous to himself, so desperate to the King=
dome will not passe away vnquestioned, vnpunished, Besides
this Tollerac
it cannott be done w
Let yo
throwe downe the Lawes of the land at yo
What dreadfull Consequences S
I beseech yo
Ghospell wherew
kingdome hath for many yeares florished, yo
drawe vpon the kingdome in generall and yo
Godes heavie wrath & indignac
towardes God, to yo
have taken humble bouldnes to deliver my Conscience, And now
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