To the Eight Honourable 

 THE LORDS SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL ; 



And to the KNIGHTS, CITIZENS, AND BURGESSES of the Honourable 

 House of Commons ; NOW assembled in Parliament. 



My Lords and Gentlemen, 



BE not startled if I address to all, and every of you, 

 tliis Century of Summary Heads of wonderful things, 

 even after the Dedication of them to His most Excel 

 lent Majesty, since it is with His most gracious and 

 particular consent, as well as indeed no wayes deroga 

 ting from my duty to His Sacred Self, but rather in 

 further order unto it, since your Lordships, who are His 

 great Council, and you Gentlemen His whole Kingdoms 

 Representatives (most worthily welcome unto Him) 

 may fitly receive into your wise and serious considera 

 tions what doth or may publickly concern both His 

 Majesty and His tenderly -beloved People. 



Pardon me if I say (my Lords and Gentlemen) that 

 it is joyntly your parts to digest to His hand these en 

 suing particulars, fitting them to His palate, and order 

 ing how to reduce them into practice in a way useful 

 and beneficial both to His Majesty and His Kingdom. 



Neither do I esteem it less proper for me to present 

 them to you in order to His Majesty s service, then it is to 

 give into the hands of a faithful and provident Steward 

 whatsoever dainties and provisions are intended for the 

 Masters diet; the knowing and faithful Steward being best 

 able to make use thereof to his Masters contentment and 



