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&quot; stranger, and so conveyed the fault from themselves to CHAP. 

 &quot; another. But that the truth was well known to be far X1L 

 &quot; otherwise.&quot; And that first, because [forsooth] Aylmer in 

 his book had said, that the author of that book against wo 

 men s government &quot; was grieved, like a good member of that 

 &quot; body which then suffered,&quot; [that is, the English in exile 

 under Queen Mary,] therefore he must be English himself, 

 and of English principles: for surely the Scottish author 

 must be said to be so, living in England upon Queen 

 Mary s access to the crown, and flying then with the rest 

 of the English in the beginning of her reign. And se 

 condly, this author must in Dormant account be English, 

 because Aylmer had said of him, that he should not have 

 meddled with other Princes, but kept himself in the parti 

 cular person of his sovereign Lady Queen Mary. Indeed 

 this might have looked like some truth, if there had been 

 no other Queen Mary at that time but she of England. 

 But there was then a Mary Queen of Scots too ; and of the 

 same severe temper against the professors of religion as the 

 other Queen her namesake. And concerning her, viz. the 

 Scotch Queen Mary, it is that Aylmer spake, &quot; that the 

 &quot; present State then, through the fault of the person and 

 &quot; not of the sex, was unnatural, unreasonable, unjust, and 

 &quot; unlawful. And that if he [meaning Knox] had kept him 

 &quot; in that particular person, he could have said nothing too 

 &quot; much, nor in such wise as could have offended any indif- 

 &quot; ferent man : adding this concerning the same Knox, (which 

 &quot; will speak full out his mind in this matter,) that this again 

 u would have been considered, that if the question were to 

 66 be handled, yet were it not meet to bring it into doubt at 

 &quot; that time, when it could not, nor yet can be, redressed 

 &quot; (were it never so evil) without manifest and violent wrong 

 &quot; of them that be in place. For if it were unlawful (as he 

 &quot; will have it) that that sex should govern, yet is it not 

 &quot; unlawful that they should inherit. And in this point 

 &quot; their inheritance is so linked with the empire, that you 

 &quot; cannot pluck from them the one, without robbing them of 

 &quot; the other. This doubt might better have been moved, 



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