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&quot; sorry I have forgot) which my lord acknowledged 

 &quot; to be true, and mended it. Why, said he, a 

 &quot; scholar would never have told me this/ &quot; 

 And it appears by a letter from his faithful friend, 

 Sir Thomas Meautys, that the king did correct the 

 manuscript. The letter is dated January 7, 162J, 

 and directed &quot; To the Lord Viscount St. Alban.&quot; 

 It contains the following passage. 



&quot; Mr. Murray tells me, the king hath given your 

 &quot; book to my Lord Brooke, and injoined him to read 

 &quot; it, recommending it much to him : and then my 

 &quot; Lord Brooke is to return it to your lordship ; and 

 &quot; so it may go to the press, when your lordship 

 &quot; pleases, with such amendments, as the king hath 

 &quot; made, which I have seen, and are very few, and 

 &quot; those rather words, as epidemic, and mild instead 

 &quot; of debonnaire, &c. Only that of persons attainted, 

 &quot; enabled to serve in parliament by a bare reversal 

 &quot; of their attainder, the king by all means will have 

 &quot; left out. I met with my Lord Brooke, and told 

 &quot; him that Mr. Murray had directed me to wait upon 

 &quot; him for the book, when he had done with it. He 

 &quot; desired to be spared this week, as being to him a 

 &quot; week of much business ; and the next week I 

 &quot; should have it : and he ended in a compliment, 

 &quot; that care should be taken, by all means, for good 

 &quot; ink and paper to print it in ; for that the book de- 

 &quot;serveth it. I beg leave to kiss your lordship s 

 &quot; hands.&quot; 



But notwithstanding this labour and anxiety, 

 the work is perhaps an illustration of Archbishop 



