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 and when that’s done, let the Reader make his own Judgment upon them.

It was in the Interval betwixt his Eaſter and his Michaelmaſs-Parliament. “Set antequam eidem Parliamento propter negotiorum multitudinem quæ reformationis remedio indigebant finem imponere valeremus, eodem Capllano veſtro reſponſionem debitam ſibi fieri inſtanter poſtulante, quædam gravis nos invaſit, ſicut Domino placuit, infirmitas Corporalis, quæ perfectionem multorum aliorum negotiorum, & deliberationem petitionis Cenſus annui ſupradicti, de quo dolemus non modicum, impedivit; ſicque cum occaſione infirmitatis hujuſmodi, a qua per Dei gratiam, cujus eſt perinere & mederi, incepimus convaleſcere, idem Paliamentum fuerit diſſolutum, & ſuper hoc nequiverunus ſuper petitione Cenſus ejuſdem delibertionem havere cum Prælatis & Proceribus antedictis.” To this Senſe. But before we 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 God befel me, which hindered the finiſhing