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the Brittaines did, and therefore the Lord permitted theire Servaunts, the unbeleivinge Saxons, whollie to over runne all theire land, and to deteine them in extreeme Bondage. Which Pagan Saxons afterwards chaunged the auncient Name of Brittaine into England, after the Names of [1]Anglia and Hingist, the aforesaid Pagan Saxon Capteines. And nowe, althoughe the Lord, in mercie, have visited the Brittaines, and sent a worthie Brittaine to be Kinge of theire Countrey, who taketh unto him the Title of Kinge of Great Brittaine, &c., yet som fantasticall men, and those, for the most parte, Saxon or Norman Puritanes, refusinge uniformitie, and to followe the Directions. of our Soveraigne, will not agree to have this land called by the auncient Name of Brittaine, derived of the noble Brutus, but baselie minded, continue to call the same England, a Name derived from the treacherous Pagan Saxons, Servaunts at the beginning to the Brittaines.
  1. Sic.