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CHAP, shewed themselves guiltless. &quot; I dare be bold to say,&quot; 

 . added he, &quot;that all the best learned be of the same judgment 



&quot; herein, that this my simple treatise shall utter me to be 

 &quot; of. So that neither our sworn enemies, the Papists, shall 

 &quot; have any longer leisure to belie us ; nor our half friends, 

 &quot; which are indifferent to believe any thing of us hereafter, 

 &quot; to mistrust us ; nor the high powers themselves in this 

 &quot; point to fear us. We have learned and taught, we love 

 &quot; and like, we honour and esteem true obedience to the 

 &quot; high Ministers of God. And on the contrary, we can no 

 &quot; skill of seditious disturbers of well settled polices, of rash, 

 &quot; unbridled breakers of wholesome and godly laws. Thus, 

 &quot; methinks, I may say in the name of all, because I know 

 &quot; the contrary opinion to be in few or none. Wherefore let 

 &quot; our enemies leave off thus to charge us.&quot; 



But it seems their enemies would not leave off, notwith 

 standing Aylmer s counsel to them : for the calumny was 

 too sweet to their enemies to lay it aside. And they con 

 tinued industriously to blow it about, and to make a noise 

 against the whole body of the English Protestants for that 

 single book of Knox s, however disowned and abhorred by 

 them. For it was three or four years after, that one Tho. 

 Dorman boldly in print told the English Protestants in ge- 

 Dorm. neral ; &quot; When it served your turn, you defended stoutly 

 1 19! &quot; w i tn tootn and nail, that a woman might not govern a 

 &quot; realm lawfully descended unto her, no, not in civil and 

 &quot; politic matters. Within how few years, yea months after, 

 &quot; taught ye, (the time so serving for your purpose,) and 

 &quot; yet do, that a woman may rule not the realm in temporal 

 &quot; things [only,] but the Church in spirituals.&quot; As though 

 it were still the Protestants principle, but that now they 

 concealed it, because they had a woman on their own side. 



And besides this, the Papists had the impudence to lay 

 the charge still more home, viz. that however the author of 

 the Harborough pretended that he that wrote that book of 

 the Blast was a stranger and no Englishman, yet in truth 

 he was an Englishman. For thus the same Dorman writ ; 

 &quot; That they covered their malice with the cloak of a 



