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2. The recovery of the hearts of the people. 



3. The removing of the root and occasions of new 



troubles. 



4*. Plantations and buildings. 



For the first ; concerning the places and times, 

 and particularities of farther prosecution, in fact, I 

 leave it to the opinion of men of war ; only the diffi 

 culty is, to distinguish and discern the propositions, 

 which shall be according to the ends of the state 

 here, that is, final and summary towards the extir 

 pation of the troubles, from those, which though 

 they pretend public ends, yet may refer indeed to the 

 more private and compendious ends of the council 

 there: or of the particular governors or captains. 

 But still, as I touched in my letter, I do think much 

 letting blood, &quot; in declinatione morbi,&quot; is against 

 method of cure: and that it will but induce neces 

 sity, and exasperate despair : and percase discover 

 the hollowness of that which is done already, which 

 now blazeth to the best shew. For laglia s and 

 proscriptions of two or three of the principal rebels, 

 they are no doubt, &quot; jure gentium,&quot; lawful : in Italy 

 usually practised upon the banditti ; best in season 

 when a side goeth down : and may do good in two 

 kinds ; the one, if they take effect : the other, in the 

 distrust which may follow amongst the rebels them 

 selves. But of all other points, to my understanding, 

 the most effectual is, the well expressing or im 

 pressing the design of this state, upon that miserable 

 and desolate kingdom ; containing the same be 

 tween these two lists or boundaries ; the one, that 

 the queen seeketh not an extirpation of that people, 



