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required, rest so upon our own sense and opinions, 

 but we did also aid and assist ourselves, as well with 

 the reverend opinion of judges and persons of great 

 science and authority in the laws, and also with the 

 wisdom and experience of merchants, and men ex 

 pert in commerce. In all which our proceedings, 

 notwithstanding, we are so far from pretending or 

 aiming at any prejudication, either of his royal 

 majesty s sovereign and high wisdom, which we 

 do most dutifully acknowledge to be able to pierce 

 and penetrate far beyond the reach of our capa 

 cities ; or of the solid and profound judgment of the 

 high courts of parliament of both realms, as we do 

 in all humbleness submit our judgments and doings 

 to his sacred majesty, and to the parliaments, pro 

 testing our sincerity, and craving gracious and 

 benign construction and acceptation of our travails. 



We therefore with one mind and consent have 

 agreed and concluded, that there be propounded and 

 presented to his majesty and the parliament of both 

 realms, these articles and propositions following. . . 



