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256 could put an end to that parliament, becauſe of the multitude of grievances which lay before them, your nuncio in the mean time, diligently ſolliciting your buſineſs, a great diſtemper, as it pleaſed, befel me, which hindered the finiſhing of many other matters, and treating about the petition of the yearly tribute, which is a great grief to me: and ſo by reaſon of my ſaid illneſs (from which by the grace of , in whoſe hands are the iſſues of life and death, I begin to recover) that parliament was diſſolved, and hereupon I could not treat with the prelates and peers aforeſaid, about this tribute. ”

this long quotation, I ſhall only make this obſervation at preſent, That in this