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perceyve yet ffor y' I have hard this thing fo reported I have 

 thoujjht good amongft the reft to fignifie it unto your grace. The 

 flfricr y' was thempero" confeffo"' hath nowe wiUingly lefte y' rome 

 fume doubt left he be becume a proteftaunt, but the comon 

 report w'" femethe y" moft certaine is y' thoccafion therof hath 

 byn the ov'much afFedion wherew"" he fecmed to favo' the B of 

 R caufe which hath well appered in y' he hath not a fewe tymes 

 chargid thempero" confciens w'" the redeliverie of piazenfa, in 

 his rome of confcfTo'ftiip is enterid another fFiier who hath byn 

 w'" me fundrie tymes and pretendyth a greate ffrendfhip towards 

 me whofe devocoii towards the B of R ffor that I have p-^ceyved 

 by him is fo fmall as he layeth the hole faulte of this p'turbacbn 

 of the worlde (as he terms it) to hym, by this mans means under 

 the pretfnfe of this coloured ffrendftiip I hope to pike* out fume 

 what now and then. 



fFrom Ulme, the XVIIJ day of auguft a.° 1548. 



[D2] 



N. B. In tranfcribing this letter, care has been taken to copy all the contraftions, 

 &c. but erafures which are very frequent have not been noticed. 



* It is hard to determine from the writing whether this word he pike, pehe or foht,,' 

 but the fenfe feems to direft pike for pick. 



