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ANTIQUITIES. 
Order of Council to the Lord Mayor 
of London, in the Reign of Queen 
Elizabeth. From Harrington's 
Nuge Antique. 
To the Lord Mayor of London. 
Ae our right hartie com- 
mendations, Whereas their 
hathe bene of late printed and pub- 
lished within that citie a certaine 
libell intituled, ‘“‘ A discoveringe of 
the gapinge gulphe,” &c. whearin 
the author hathe not onlie verie con- 
temptuouslie intermedled in matters 
of state towchinge her Majesties 
person, but alsoe vttered certaine 
things to the dishonour of the Duke 
of Aniou, brother to the Frenche 
Kinge. Forasmuch as divers of the 
said books havebene verie seditiouslie 
cast abroade, and secretle dispersed 
into the hands of sondrie of her Ma- 
jesties subiects, as well the inha- 
bitants of that citie as in other parts 
of this realme; with an intencion, 
as much as in them laie, to alter 
the mind of her Highness good and 
dewtifullsubiects, and to drawethem 
into a suspition and misliking of 
her Maiesties actions, as though the 
same tended to the preiudice of the 
realme, and subversion of the estate 
of true religion (nowe a longe time, 
by the goodnes of Almightie God, 
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and her Highness authoritie, as God’s 
minister, established and contynewed 
among vs) Albeit her Maiestie hathe 
received such an assured opinion of 
the loyaltie of her said subiects, and 
speciallie of the inhabitants of that 
her citie of London, that they will 
not soe easelie give credit to any 
suche secret’ synister devises tend- 
ing to the impairing and defacinge 
of her Highnes good proceedings, 
especiallie in the pointe of religion, 
where shee hathe willed vs to assure 
you, that shee desireth no longer 
life than shee shalbe a mayntayner 
and vpholder of the same; yet for- 
asmuch on the one parte yt beho- 
veth her Maiestie in honour to have 
soe notorious an iniure done to so 
great a Prince, her neighbour, whoe 
in suche kinde and confident sorte 
(all respecte of perill and dainger 
Jayd aparte) vowchsafed to do her 
Maiestie that honor to come and 
visit her, repaired by all the waies 
and meanes that any waie can be 
devised: soe on the othaur side, hir 
Highnes is verie desireous, that as 
hitherto shee hathe bene verie care- 
full (as by her doings hathe well 
appeared) to maintaine and conty- 
newe this realme, bothe in matters 
of policie and religion, in such quiet 
and peaceable estate as hitherto shee 
hathe done, and which never any 
Prince 
