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the force of the French; Answered, they 

 were a-now to be slaine, e-now to be taken 

 prisoners, e-now to run away : which speech 

 continues to his everlasting praise : this 

 Gladis being mother to your Lordships 

 Ancestors & mine : the Earle of Pembrook, 

 Sir Richard Herbert, Vaughan of Erad- 

 wardin, Vaughan of Hergest, & Vaughan 

 of Tretowr hir 5. sons al 5. brethren & 

 al 5. overthrown at Banbury field. Five 

 such brethren out of one woman, the 13. 

 shires of Wales hath seldom yeelded : my 

 Lord, I am By Gladis, kin to most of 

 the Old Nobility : which aged descent 

 is almost worn out, yet not so worn, but 

 either by consanguinity, or affinity, I can 

 light on a Howard, a Herbert, a Somerset, 

 a Carew, or a Knowles, ever ready to assist 

 an Act of Parliament to raise a preaching 

 Minister. These turbulents over-frighted, 

 stir'd up the harts of the poorest people 

 to a dangerous mislike with invective 

 breathings, that they must goe above a 

 mile to a sermon; that their Church 

 would not containe the three Parishes at 

 a Sermon-time ; that it could not bee done 

 by Law, and that forty pound was suffi- 

 cient for a Preacher, and that I did it not 

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