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AN ESSAY ON
could put an end to that parliament, becauſe of the multitude of grievances which lay before them, your nuncio in the mean time, diligently ſolliciting your buſineſs, a great diſtemper, as it pleaſed God, befel me, which hindered the finiſhing of many other matters, and treating about the petition of the yearly tribute, which is a great grief to me: and ſo by reaſon of my ſaid illneſs (from which by the grace of God, in whoſe hands are the iſſues of life and death, I begin to recover) that parliament was diſſolved, and hereupon I could not treat with the prelates and peers aforeſaid, about this tribute.[1]”
From this long quotation, I ſhall only make this obſervation at preſent, That in this parlia-
- ↑ Sed antequam idem parliamento propter negotiorum multitudinem quæ reformationis remedio indigebant finem imponere valeremus, eodem capellano veſtro reſponſionem debitam ſibi fieri inſtanter poſtulante, quædam gravis nos invaſit, ſicut Domino placuit, infirmitas corporalis, quae perfectionem multorum aliorum negetiorum, et deliberationem petitionis cenſus annui ſupradicti, de quo dolemus non modicum, impedivit; ſicque cum occaſione infirmitatis hujuſmedi, a qua per Dei gratiam cujus eſt perimere & mederi, intepimus convaleſcere, idem parliamentum fuerit diſſolutum, & ſuper hoc nequiverimus ſuper petitione cenſus ejuſdem deliberationem habere cum praelatis & proceribus antedictis.
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