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To the Right noble Estates, and to all wother of 



the toune of Cales, Wiliam Roye de- 



syretli grace and peace, 



from God the 



fatlier 



and 



from the lorde Jesus 



Christ. 



IT is not vnknowne to you all my loi'des, and masters, 

 and all wother my singuler gode frendes and bretheren in 

 Christ, howe that tliis last yere, the newe testament of oure 

 saveour, was delyvered vnto you, through the faythfuU and 

 diligent stodye of one of oure nacion, a man no doute, ther 

 vnto electe and chosen of God, named William Hitchyns, vnto 

 whome I was (after the grace geven rae of the lorde) as 

 healpe felowe, and parte taker of his laboures, that every 

 cristen man, myght therby heare and vnderstonde, at home, 

 and in his owne housse, the sprete of God speakynge therin, 

 and thorowe his holy apostels. Whiche oure labour and stodye 

 specialy vnto theym that presume and thyncke thyem ' selves 

 alonly to be apostolicall men, and spretuall doctours, was most 

 odeous. [Fol. 2".] Insomoche that withoute delaye, in greate 

 hatered and vennemous barkynge, openly at paulis crosse, did 

 that was in theym, to disanull, forbidde, and blaspheme, the 

 moste holyest werde of God, fode of many a povre soule, 

 longe famniysshed with the sower dowe, of their importable 

 and dissaytfull traditions. Ye and where as they hade no 



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