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insatiable ambition, soe abused and stained w th fowle and 

 enormous impiety, and so suddenly trashaped (as I may say ) 

 from civill and pollitique vallour to outragious and detestable 

 tyranny, I must needs conclud (however there is danger in the 

 very thoughts) that he is neither meete to be a king of soe noble 

 a Realme, nor soe famous a co'monwealth befitting to be 

 gouerned by soe infamous a Prince. 



Was not his first stepp to the diademe in blood, and through 

 the house of slaughter of diuers noble peers and valiant persons ? 

 did he not traduce his owne mother for incontinency and dis- 

 solute liuing ? did he not p'claime his brethren and all their e 

 children Bastards as borne in adultery ? did he not afterwards 

 p'ceed w th the murther of 2 poore innocent princes, his owne 

 nephews, whose blood so cruelly spilt, cries to heauen for 

 vengance, and will no donbt be powerfull to open the dores of 

 destruction against him ? Who shall Hue secure under his 

 tyranny ? Whoe is not affrighted at his i mmanity ? What 

 place may be trusted to escape his savadgnes ? for he, that did 

 so little respect the slaughter of his owne kindred will lesse 

 regarde the confusion of others. Let me conclude in a word ; 

 and to the purpose; if either you apprehend the dutie w h 

 Religion, faith, charitie, kindrid, y r distressed country, and God 

 himself challengeth at y r hands, you must take upon you the 

 gouernment of the kingdome, both for y r preseruation, of the 

 glory of the same, and the faceliting that burthensome yoke of 

 slauery w cl1 hath so long laine on o r shoulders, that the best of the 

 kingdome even groane againe under the pressure of all wretch- 

 ednesse and misery ; this if you refuse, then I co'iure you by 

 all the title of reason and sanctity, by y r vow to Grod in y r 

 Christianity, and by the hope of eternall saluation, to inuent some 

 meanes and indeauour in the same, that this kingdom now soe 

 torne and abused, may be repaired againe under a more moderate 

 gouernement of some better Prince. To this purpose spake the 

 Bishop, and soe brake off w th some diffusednesse, the Duke not 

 answering a word at that time. 



The next day they mett again, and allthough they continued 



