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Epistle Dedicatory. has had some great, and shining Examples of Female Virtue, and Piety, going before You: yet it is the Comfort of Your Subjects, that You have nothing wanting in Your most Illustrious Character, to equal all their Glories. Inasmuch as, what they did for the Introduction of the Christian Faith at first, and the Reformation of it when corrupted, we more than hope, with St. Gregory, will by Your be render'd compleat, in the future Security and lasting Establishment of the Church of Christ, so early planted, and purely reformed, in these Your