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And this is not my inference, but the very affirma 

 tive of pope Urban the second, who in a brief to 

 Godfrey, bishop of Luca, hath these very words, 

 which cardinal Baronius reciteth in his Annals, Tom. 

 XI. p. 802. &quot; Non illos homicidas arbitramur, qui 

 adversus excomnmnicatos zelo catholicae matris ar- 

 dentes eorum quoslibet trucidare contigerit,&quot; speak 

 ing generally of all excommunications.] 



TO THE KING*. 



IT MAY PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 



I RECEIVED this very day, in the forenoon, your 

 majesty s several directions touching your cause pro 

 secuted by my lord Hunsdonf as your farmer. Your 

 first direction was by Sir Christopher Parkins, that 

 the day appointed for the judicial sentence should 

 hold : and if my lord chief justice, upon my repair 

 to him, should let me know, that he could not be 

 present, then my lord chancellor should proceed, 

 calling to him my lord Hobart, except he should 

 be excepted to ; and then some other judge by con 

 sent. For the latter part of this your direction, I 

 suppose, there would have been no difficulty in ad 

 mitting my lord Hobart ; for after he had assisted 

 at so many hearings, it would have been too late to 

 except to him. But then your majesty s second and 



* Harl. MSS. Vol. 6986. 



f John Carey, Baron of Hunsdon. He died in April, 1617. 



