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worshipfull, in my moste harty wise I recommend me unto you. Sir, my Cosyn Willyam Rastal, hath enformed me that your mastership of your goodnes shewed him that it hath been reported, that I haue against the booke of certein articles (which was late put forth in print by the Kinge's honorable counsel) made an answere, and deliuered it unto my said cosin to print. And albeit that he for his part truely denied it, yet because he somewhat remained in doubte, whither your mastership gaue him therin ful credens or not, he desired me for his farther discharge to declare you the very troth. Sir, as help me God, neither my said cosein nor any man els, neuer had any boke of mine to print, one or other, since the said boke of the Kinge's counsel came forth. For of trouth the last boke that he printed of mine was that boke that I made against an unknowen heretike, which hath sent ouer a worke that walketh in ouer many mens handes, named, the Souper of the Lord, against the blessed Sacrament of the Alter. My aunswere whereunto albeit that the printer (unware to me) dated it anno. 1534, by which it seemeth to be printed since the feast of the cirsumsicion, yet was it of very trouth both made and printed, and many of them gone before Christmas. And my self neuer espied the printer's over