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Papists and Puritanes) haue maliciouſly traduced and calumniated thoſe Our iuſt and honourable proceedings. And, therefore, leſt Our reputation might vpon the one ſide (though innocently) haue ſome asperſion layd vpon it, and that vpon the other part Our good people in that Countrey be miſled by the miſtaking and miſinterpretation of Our meaning: We have, therefore, thought good hereby to cleare and make Our pleaſure to be manifeſted to all Our good people in thoſe parts.

It is true that at Our first entry to this Crowne, and Kingdome,

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