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occasion of distaste, did contend by their forwardness 

 and confidence to shew, it was but their fastness to 

 the former government, and that those affections 

 ended with the time. The papists nourished their 

 hopes, by collating the case of the papists in Eng 

 land, and under Queen Elizabeth, and the case of the 

 papists in Scotland under the king : interpreting that 

 the condition of them in Scotland was the less griev 

 ous, and divining of the king s government here ac 

 cordingly: besides the comfort they ministered to 

 themselves from the memory of the Queen his mo 

 ther. The ministers, and those which stood for the 

 presbytery, thought their cause had more sympathy 

 with the discipline of Scotland than the hierarchy of 

 England, and so took themselves to be a degree 

 nearer their desires. Thus had every condition of 

 persons some contemplation of benefit, which they 

 promised themselves ; over-reaching perhaps, ac 

 cording to the nature of hope, but yet not without 

 some probable ground of conjecture. At which time 

 also there came forth in print the king s book, inti 

 tuled, Bao-tXixcv ASpov : containing matter of instruction 

 to the prince his son touching the office of a king ; 

 which book falling into every man s hand, filled the 

 whole realm, as with a good perfume or incense, be 

 fore the king s coming in ; for being excellently 

 written, and having nothing of affectation, it did not 

 only satisfy better than particular reports touching 

 the king s disposition, but far exceeded any formal 

 or curious edict or declaration, which could have been 

 devised of that nature, wherewith the princess in the 



