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Dedication to his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace. 
To whom 
THE PRACTISE OF QUIETNESS. 
7th Edition. 
Print in title page, recut smaller. Printed by M. F. 
and sold by George Edwards at the signe of the 
Angell in Green Arbor. 1638. 
signed GEORGE WEBBE. 
Dedicated to His Majesty’s Lords, etc., and the rest 
of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace. 
“To whom should I more fully dedicate a Treatise 
of Quietness, than unto those who are the preservers 
of the publique peace and quietness ? And among 
these to whom more especially than unto those who are 
in the commission for the peace and quietness of mine 
own Country, and that many worthy things are done 
in this Country for the preservation of piety and 
peace.” 
“Our plains sometime infamous for robberies are 
now safe and secure for travellers. Our Assizes 
sometimes so fraught with Nisi prius, is now less 
troubled with troublesome suits. A Recusant is 
a rare thing amoung us and there is less complaining 
in our streets. Due, first to the mercy of God, 
secondly, preaching of the word, now so plentifully 
establised amoung us, and by the zeal of the Earl 
of Hertford in founding and confirming and counten- 
ancing the worthy lecture at Amesbury. The careful 
patronage of the Earl of Pembroke and the estab- 
lishing of the Justices ? Lectures at Devizes, Marle- 
borough, Warminster, Calne, Cosham, Bradford, 
Highworth, and almost in all quarters of our county. 
And their attending them. 
Steeple Ashton, June 2ist. 
The dedication of the 9th Edition is very quaint :— 
‘Wherefore as Hannah... . Did make him a 
little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, so 
I have put this my little Pamphlet to a new Coat, 
being now the ninth time.” 
