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ragged and tattered sleeve of any suppliant, holding up to i 



him a simple soiled bill of complaint or petition, and that j 



homely contrived, or afrayde at, and timerously hasting 1 

 from the sickly pale face or feeble limmed suter, 



extreemely constrained so to speake for himselfe, nor ; 



parcially smoothering his owne conscience, to favour or j 



mainteine the foule fault and trespasse unlawful! of any j 



his subjects, how mightie or necessary soever, they (els) ; 

 were, but diligently made search, least Pauperes a poten- 



tibus praejudicium passi, opprimerentur. ! 



Thus did publique securitie from forrein foe abroad, and j 



true love of his owne subjects, garding him at home, and I 



the heavenly spirit directing all his good purposes, cause '• 



justice and equitie in all quarters of this Albion to flourish. ' 



For which his peaceable and prosperous benefits at the j 



eternall king his hand obteined, hee became not insolent i 



or declined to tyrannical! regiment (as some princes in j 



other countreis have made their lives Comicotragical) but \ 



with all his foresaide invincible Seaforce, aboundant | 



wealth, triumphant peace, with securitie and Justice over i 



all his Monarchic prevailing, his heart was continually, ; 



and most zealously bent to set foorth the glory, laude and j 



honour of the Almightie Creator, the heavenly and ever- * 



lasting king, by such principal! and princely meanes, as ^ 

 (then) were deemed to God most acceptable, as many 



monuments yet to our dayes remaining, do of him '* 



undoubtedly testifie : As this, for one. i 



Altitonantis Dei largiflua dementia, qui est rex Regum, Ex charta \ 



Ego T^dgarus Anglorum Basileus omniumque fa^^dationu 1 



Regum, Insularum, Oceanique Britanniam circum- CatTedralis ^ 



jacentis, cunctarumque nationum quae infra eam wigomlce, \ 



includuntur, Imperator, & Dominus, gratias ago ] 



ipsi Deo omnipotenti, Regi meo, qui meum Im- | 



perium sic ampliavit, & exaltavit super regnum j 



patrum meorum : qui licet Monarchiam totius \ 



Anglias adepti sunt a tempore Athelstani (qui 1 



primus regnum Anglorum, & omnes Nationes, j 



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