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TO THE

RIGHT HONORABLE

THOMAS LO. VISCOVNT WENTWORTH,

LO. DEPVTY GENERALL

OF

IRELAND,

LO. PRESIDENT OF HIS MAIESTIES COVNCELL ESTABLISHED IN THE NORTH PARTS OF ENGLAND, AND ONE OF HIS MAIESTIES MOST HONORABLE PRIVIE COVNCELL.

RIGHT HONORABLE,

THE sense of that happy peace, which by the di- vine providence this Kingdome hath enjoyed, since the beginning of the raigne of his late Majestie of ever sacred memory, doth then take the deeper im- pression, when these our halcyon dayes are compared with the former turbulent and tempestuous times, and with the miseries (of several! kindest incident unto them. Those calamities are fully set out, and to the