F study had gotten me a muche eloquence as trewe and unfeyned love of my country gyveth me cause to lamente, than durste I boldely saye that there is none so wycked, none soo unnaturall, none so farre under all the senses of huanitte but I coulde fully perswade hym nothing so much to be eschewed as sedition, none so worthy of punishment as they which trayterously make of one nation two, of them that even nowe were frendes sodaynly to be utter enemies. But seing myn eloquence, which I muste nedes graunte to be very smalle, can not so serve me as I desire in so weighty a matter, I wylle see what love, sorrowe and pitte can doo, which if they coulde as earnestly worke as they be greatte to me, I  woulde truste to make all honest stomackes to deteste and abhorre sedicious traytours. Take away the commaundmentes of God, destroye all the lawes of nature and Man, maye not eyther the hyghe coimmodites that cometh of mutual concord between all the Kynges subjects and the Kynges Grace, or the the exceyding damages that ensewe upon sedition kepe any honest harte in maynteyninge the one and fleing the other? But in so shamefull an act why do I speake of honest hartis? For who is he that can thynke hym selfe to have any veyne of an honest man that feareth not God, that loveth not his contrey, that obeyeth not his prince, that finally dothe as much he can to pulle away nature, honestie, and all good lawes? What is he that can say he is an Englyshe man and that he careth not though the welth of Englande be trodden under the foote? I [Aye] beast  he is, a man he can never be judged that passeth but on his own welth and pleasure. Alas howe unworthy is he to be shaped after the fourme of a man, how unmete [unfit] to dwell among  men, which seeth what foloweth sedition and yet woll endvour hym selfe to styrre the quiette and obediente hartes of the people to sedition? He that with hym selfe earnestly ymagyneth howe moche bloude must nedes te shedde, what a number muste nedes be slayne, howe many good townes shall be robbed and spoyled, howe many fermours and honest householders shall be utterly undone, how many gentilmen for lacke of  their tentes shalbe fayn to lay their lands to mortgage or utterly to sel them away, how many honest women shalbe defiled, how many virgins ravished? He that setteth the blody felde before his eyes, here legges, there heedes, these dethely wounded,  those utterly deed, as nedes must dye in suche cruelle division then to have them alive and his frendis.
2. If our moste gracious Prince, God save his lyfe and them that so wyshe, hadde gyven you some great occasion to have gone from hym, yet to go against hym and his trewe subjects good cause you have none. Nowe can we saye you fyghte in a good cause, which in one act offende so many proof of Goddis commandementes? Who is he that very nature hath not taught to be obseysaunte [obedient] to his sovereaygne lorde the Kyng? Peter, Paule, Christ fynally all say that say well, obeye thy prince. I am sory that the Turckes hethen creatures men caste away. If trouthe say truthe, I am sory that they shulde so farre excelle us un a thynge that onely perteyneth unto us and lyttel or nothing to them. Obedience is the badge of a true Christen man. And be not ashamed that the Turke shall send for the greattest mans heed in his countreye and byd him leave the body at home, and fynde theym here in this so nreasonable a requeste obedient, and are we not ashamed that we being demaunded a lyttell money to come with clubbes, bylles [billhooks] and bowes to oppresse him in whose defence we ough tall to shede our best bloude.
3. Look how David, whiche was chosen of God to succede Saul Kynge of Israel, tremblethe, how sory he is that he had a cut a pece of Saults garment, which now full of iniquitie sought all the weyes he could tto kill David. Loke upon the circumstaunces. Davids battle as innocent, pure, and cleane, whiche dyd cutte his vesture [garments] for none other intente but to shewe his fidelitie unto Hym, and to declaire hat he had oportrunitie and myght have slayne Saul if he had lysted [wanted] so to do. There was no denne soo darke, no rocke so inclymable, no mountayne so hygh but King Saul would up to it and seke the dethe of David. An other tyme Saul was aslepe in his tente. David commeth in, he myghte have kylled hym. What dothe he? Nothynge but take away a speare that was at his heed and a vessell of water whiche stode besyde him. This is the text: David cut the typpe of Sauls cloake, and by and by he repented hym that he cutte the kynges vesture and began to crye "Our Lorde be mercifullunto me that I do no suche thynge to my soveraygne lorde. Our Lorde, keepe me that I never lay handes on hym because God hathe anoynted hem. What is he that canne extende his hand toward a kyng and be innocent? Rede farther, Thou shalt se that he which said he kylled Saul and brought the crowne unto David was slayne by Davids commaundement. Yet here is more to be marked. Saul felle on his owne sworde and would in any case be deed. After this came the son of Amalachites and feyned that he had holped the kynge to dye, layinge for his excuse the kyng was halfe deed and more before, and desired hym to rid hym out of his peyne. Notwithstandynge David thought him worthy to dye, whiche layde no violent handes uppon the kynge but holpe a kynge to dye. And whan David harde that Saul was dead what lamentation maketh he! How he renteth heh is vestures! How fastethhe and causeth al his [his subjects] to fast from mornyng to nightge. Ad doo we thynke theym not worthye mooste cruelle deathe that thus haynousely robbe and spoyhle the kynges trewe subjectes, and farther mooste bodelye bent agaynst His hygnes come with a huge and a riotttous army agaynst his captaynes to the destruction of his lawes and common welthe?
4. Alas what unkyndnes may so kynde and so lovynge a prince take in these traytours, for whose sakes and savegarde of lyves I dare well say, His Grace woulde have shedde is bloode? What unnaturall hartls! That they shulde for one or smalle cause runne into suche outragious malyce ageynste His Grace, and foolyshely pretende to hate them onley that whiche His Highness best loveth! And nedes muste beste love, as longe as uche their vertues, qualities, fidelitie compelleth His Grace to doo. Who canj ustely blame hym for makynge them greatte that in deded have al thouse thingis which at the begynnyng of nobilitie onely made men more noble? But what mervayle if suche vile and abhominable traytours highly hate all those in whom vertue shyneth, which in dede can promote none but suche as honestie gyveth reputation unto? It farre passeth coblers crafe to discusse what lorde, what byshops, what counsaylours, what actis, statutis and lawes are mooste mete for a common wealthe, and whose judgement shulde best or worst. Is it ipossible that suche a nombre of men shulde caste them selfe away [go to sea] there where a cobler shalbe counted a captayne?
5. If England coulde   seke might it not say this? "I am one, why do you make me twayne? Ye are all myne, howe canne any of you, were none ought so to do, seke the distruction oe me, my mooste noble and prudente prynce Kynge Henry the viiij. and his trewe subjectes? It is is a shrewde [cunning] hande that scratcheth out the eyen, a shreude fote that for his faute putteth the necke in jeaperdie. Lyncolneshire, thou art a membre of myn, I thought if nede had ben, if myn ennemies had infested me, to have founde helpe and succour at thy hand, and thou thus traterously settest upon me? Whan meate whiche shulde kedpe the body lusty fleeth, what mervuayle if hunger kylle many a one? If thy weapon, whiche shulde defende thee, fyght ayenst [against] the, what wonder to see an other mans dagger busy with thy bosome? If Lynconeshire seke to distroye England, what wonder is hit yf Fraunce and Scotlande sometyme have soughte to offende me? Alas, who canne blame me if I be wooer whiche fynde none (I thanke the prudence of my prince and his counsayllours) that seeketh my sorrowe but suche as I have to longe nouryshed and pampered up. Lincolnshyre, I toke the for my frende, so dyd the Kynge also and I truste he woll do ageye yf thou , purged of these traytoures, hereafter do as though shalt wyshe thou haddest nowe done."
6. Thus Englande myght saye and moche more whiche I wyl say for her. If the feare of God, the love of the common welthe, and loyall obeysance to our moste gratious prince had moved the rest of his subjectis no more thanne they dyd you, might not we have feared least it shulde hae chanced unto us as id dyd to them that came of the serpentes tethe? The fable is ot longe, neyther feyned without good cause. Cadmus, by the consent of the poetis, killed a greate serpent whose tethe he was commaunded to sowe in the ground, of the which sodeynely arose harneist [harnessed, i. e. clad in armor], a rowe on the oone syde, an other on the other, whiche streight felle to gether by the eares, in soo moche that they were almooste deed ere they were fullye borne. The poets wolde declare that where as is dissention bothe the partis go to wracke. But what nedeth me to use a fable whan I maye confirme this thynge with so many histories? Fyrste what broughte downe the Grekes? Or to begynne somewhat farther, what was the cause that sometyme the Lacedemoniens were under the Atheniens, sometyme contrarye? Loke the histories, you shall evermore for the most part fynde that never gerat realme or common weith hath ben distroyed without sedition at home.
7. Dissention, dissention hathe ben the ruine, the venome, the pyson of all great estates in so moche that the discorde of capitaynes onely ofte tymes put the Grekes to moche calamitie. How oft was Athens vexed by reason of the private hatrede betwixte Aristides and Themistocles, Cimon and Pericles, Nicias and Alcibiades their capitaynes? Surelyh the division of Grece, that is to say the Lacedomiens ageynste the Atheniens, the Corinthians and Thebans, indifferent frendes so next to one another, mayde the Romanyns lordess of Greece. Nowse what brought downe the Romayns, which were conquerours of all the hole world well nygh? Doth not Marius, Cinna, Pompeius and Cesar, seditiose citisins, make almost the ende of the reigne of the Romaynes ? You see in other landes sedition hath ben evermore the bringer in of al sorowe and mischief. Hath sedition done no hurte in Englande? Have we hadde no experience before nowe? I would we had not, how be it I truste the Kynges Grace wil so prudently and gratiously order tis that hereafter Englande shall have lyttel feare of insurrection. Is there any in Englande that hathe not harde of Palm Sonday filde, Blarcke Heath fielde, and many other whiche bycause they are almoste forgoten I would no body shuld at any tyme speke of them.
7. I am of Platos mynde, I wolde nave no histories to make mention of theym that have fought ageynst their countrey. I wolde no sedition shulde be writen of, no nor spoken of. I would have men beleve that there was never none so unnatural as to ryse ayenst [against] his prince and countrey. But seinge it is so farre paste and the hurt to gret to be so soone forgotten, lettu s take in all thynges some fruite. For what is so yvell butr somme good commeth of it? These to feldes, how many wydowes made they, how many fartherles chyldrene, what bloode they coste us fewe be but they knowe. I lette passe howe all that ever came into Englande to infeste us never dyd hurte excepte we were divided.
8. Julius Cesar, the best capitayn that ever the Romaynes hadde and peradventure that ever was, at his fyrste settynge upon us dyd no man hurte but hym selfe. I praye you see what opinyon he hadd of us. Rede Paulus Orosius, where at the fyrst he came but with lxxx. shyppes, at his returnynge he came with no lesse than syxe hundred shyppes furnished with piked souldidus. And as Cesar himselfe wrytethe, Mandubrattus sonne of the Kynge of London called Imanuentius [stole] out of Englande and folowed hym, being than at variance with Cassevelaunus Kyng of Kent. And so Cesar same in holpen [was helped] by this sedition. O cruel sedition! O venomous hatred! O unlucky debate! O pernitious dissention! O spitefull rancour! O blynd and ever hurtful envy! O seldom wel ending malice, why dost thou in one houre oft tymes marre more then in a hundred yeres can be restored agayn? What foly, what madnes is this to make an hole in the shyppe that thou saylest in? What wylful frowardnes is this to lese [lose] both thyn eies that thyn enemy may lese one? I praye God the cobbler not be chief captaine. I pray God there be no polshorne[= polisson, rascally, possibly by a printing error] pedlers. I had almost called them by their name that put the cobbler out of his roume.
9. Who wyl think but it was gret pittie to put out suche good religious men that now have turned their coules into jackes [their cowls into jackets], their portesses [breviaries] and beadis into bills [billhooks], bowes, and twenty other prety thynges. and come now harnest into the felde ayenst [against] God, the Kyng, and bothe theyr lawes. Is it not verye like that they lyved vertuously in their cloisters where they might do all michieve and no man see them whyche nowe in the face of the world are not ashamed to be the ringeleaders of these trayterous rebelles? Is it not pitie that these shulde lacke an halter [a noose] which wyll sooner undo (as far as they may) an hole countreye then not have for them harlottes as they have had in time paste? Theyr Pope, their puppet, their idole, theyr Romayn god wyl not out of theyr hartes. Theyh can not abide Scripture to come in place and bere the rule of relygion as it was wont and ever ought to do. But God shal fyght for the Kyng in tis behalfe, unto Whom for the settynge out of His moste holy Worde, I dare bodely saye, God is most bound. If God may be bound to Man than He to al the priestes, monkes, friers, Cardinals and Popes that have bene this fyve hundred yeers. t was no lesse then a lerned Kynges act to sende the Popes bulles into theyr owne pasturse, to make of a Pope a byshop, which is in dede as wel both as one well soughte, nouther [neither] of bothe. It was a princis dede to dryve out him ayeste whose abusions [abuses] no man coude open his mouth <on> peine of losse of goodes, lyfe, and honeste fame thanks to their tyrannous decrees and abominable lawes which I m ght calle lusts but that I am understanded well enoughe. He is gone, but to many of his lyvery tarieth styll. I dare say if it be proved this sedition to come from them, they wylle not tarye ever. I speake never ayenste [against] the good because I knowe not where they dwelle. This I knowe well, the Kynges Grace for a fewe good hath suffered an abhomynable sorte of the yvell reigne to longe.
10, But I wyl retourne to my purpose. If the Kynge shulde aske you, as sometyme the Romaine ambassadours asked theirs, why they had lefte the Senatours and were so seditiously departed, have you any more to say than they had? Nay, you have moche lesse. For they lacked noo matter to have layde for them,but they lacked a man to utter it. I pray you, what can you say if the Kingye's Grace laye but unkyndenes to you where the lawe condempneth you of treson? I am sure in so great a crye there muste nedes be some gratte occasion. Lynconshire, brynge forth yhur cobbler, what can you lay for your excuse? Howe can you say it is lawful, nay that it is not moost abhominable thus traiterouisly to invade, robbe, spoile, and kyl the true subjectis of your most gratious and lovyng prince? Wyl you lay the puttyng down of abbeys for you? First why may not the Kynges Grace by the couunsayl of the lordes spiritual and temporall, and the commons assembled togither in Parliament (of the which many are among your rout) do that, that all these and the bettter parte of you than thought best to be done? And what cruel and blynde malyce is this to lay in one or two mennes neckes as yvell done that which was thoughte by the hole Counsayle and consent of the thre estates of Englande to be moste to the honour of God, dyscharge [an act of duty towards] the Kynge, and weale of this is realme and subjectes of the same? What an inconstancie reyneth in fooles? Howe longe have you cried monkes <and> priestes have to moche? Howe long have we all praied God send the Kynge such counsaile that one daye he maye see goodes that were yvell spente tourned into a better use? Howe can he tourne them into better use except he fyrst take theym away from these that you your owne selfe by act of Parlyment publyshed to have ben mysused and spente in the mayntenance of vyces and oppressynge of vertues? Fyrste you wolde in any case that the abbeys shulde down [be suppressed], that the spiritualitie shuld have lesse.
11, So in dede these spirituall traytours that are in harneys ayenste theyr countrey calle them selfe, which have none other spirite than their father the Dyvell hath inspired unto them. If these be spiritual, pult a coule on Catililns back, is not he than a religious monke and a good spirituall man? If these be religious and spirituall men whiche doo all that they can to distroy bothe the lawes of God and of Man, to bring this realme in desolation, why maye not Jacke Cade, Jacke Strawe, Wyll Wawe, Wat Tyrler, Jacke Shepharde, Tomme Myller and Nob Cartour, a barbour sent for, be shorne into religion? If they be spirituall that consume the day eyther in ydelnes or in an other thynge worse then that, sowynge sede in other m ens forowes [furrows], whom shall we call carnal? Were it not honest to utter al that the visitours in their inquisitions brynge homem that these holy hoded relygouse have theym selfe confessed and confirmed with the subscription of theyr owne handes what thynges they can be ashamed of that confesse such crimes as no honest man can wel reherse, nor good man abyde to here? They shall pardone my shamefastnes, I am content that I lacke boldnes to write hat which they are not ashamed to do. They have fawtes inowe [enough] though I lay not this tto heir charge. They nede none to accuse them excepte they change theyr apparyle. The worlde hath spied them. I scarse beleve that men coude teche nature a newe waye excepte it hadde been proved to theyr teeth and uttered by their owne selfes. They that be lerned knowe what I meane and what they are. Paule layde the same faut to the Romayns. They that be unlerned wyl moche mervayle except they have ben brought uppe with monkes and friers howe yonge novyces may stande in sted of yong wyves.
12. I hae sayd ynough. It styncketh to sorre to be sturred to moche. Is it possible that menne shulde mervayle such to be put out theyr houses and not sooner wonder that the be not raked in the coles? I woll not agravate thynges. I am glad that they have greatter cause to say that the Kynges Grace sheweth mercy out of his place than to thynke them self hardely delte withall which lese [lose] but their dwellinge places where they ought to lese their lyves. The civile lawe putteth such not out of their house but with the sworde putteth them to dethe. And howe strayte [strict] the Act of the Parliament is they shulde have founde if it had bene put in execution. If the Kynge's Grace had done as the law wolde and not as his most gratious nature provoketh hym, coude any man have sayde such detestable vices to deserve lesse punishment? The Kynges Grace foloweth such processe as God doth use slyghtly for the moste parte. God doth not punysh all that are synners, neither the Kinge hathe punyshed all monkes, all be not putte downe that bothe the lawe and the judgement of good men thykne unworthy to stande, but such which had neyther preyse of good life nor of hospitalitie before they were supprest. Wherefore I canne not thynke that the puttinge downe of abbeys, that is to saye the puttynge away of mayntyened lecherie, buggery and hypocisie, shuld be the cause of this rebellious insurrection. There was some other wylde worme that wolde suffre madde braynes to be at reste. You wolde fayne and have soughte to fynde some honeste colour to shadowe your execrable and most cruell intended robbery, spoylynges, ravyshementes, burnynges, exiling of all honest and quiete persons, and settyng up of theves, morderers, ann manquellers [mankillers]. Thynke you that wyse men, which have sene by all hystories the ende of such seditious traytours, do not well espye what all your intent was? What shuld other shyres loke to fynde atte theyr handes that have fyrste undoone and distroyed their owne? Whom wold they have spared to robbe, spolyle, or kylle, if they had brought theyr pourpose to passe that nowe robbe and slee [slay], whan they are assured that they canne no whyle contynue, neyther could havae contynewed soo long, but that the Kinges goodnes gave them this space both to aknowledte theyr hyghe and detestable fawte and to declare unto all his subjectes howe loth he is to shede the bloode of them that ought to love His Grace beste nexte unto God.
13, I am glad and sory that you have no better excuse than eyther you have made or any other for you, gladde that all menne whiche have judgment shall thynke you to have done as people is wont to do, that is, wonderful fondely [foolishly] and without any ground, sory that you shoulde be soo madde, none occasion gyven you, to put your selfe to suche rebuke, shame and confusion. It is to foolyshe that ye laye for you [say for yourselves by way of excuse] that for the payement of a shyllynge in the pounde you wold sette all Englande by the ears. Howe canne he be lesse worthy to dye then they that most deserve it, wihch had leaver [preferably] see all Englande distroyed then parte from x. or xx. s. that was before freely and benevolently gyven and graunted by your selves? We coulde fynde in our hartes at the requeste of a sedicious Pope called Urban to part from cv. hundred frankes at one tyme, which amounteth above xij. hundred thousande crownes of the sonne, to ayde and strengthen hym ayenst an other Romayne byshoppe called Clement that challenged the papacy and never grudged at the matter. And now for the urgent busynessis and moste nedefull affaires as to the suppressynge of the rebelles and ther ennemies that rose uppe in the Kynges lande in Irelande, which busynesse, as it was than thoughte by all the wyse menne of this realme and as in deede we nowe have proved, could not be redressed and welle fynysshed without excedynge charges before the greate expenses that His Grace is at, among many thynges that we knowe which knowe but lytell, as uppon the haven at Dover, the bulwarkes, fortresses and buyldinges made for the munytion and defence of his towne of Calyce [Calais}, of Berwycke, and of other fronters that are so highely beneficiall for the commonweale of this his realme, not onely in His Graces tyme but in many yeres after.
14. Nowe I say for all these highe and weyghtye causes and many other that I recken not wich His Grace is at onely for our profyte, quiete, rest and peace, we wyll not depare from so small a somme that was (I saye agayne) so freely graunted unto hym. Every man was not charged hereunto, but suche as all the wise men of the realme thought myght easily beare it. He that saythe his substance is lesse worth than xx. li. [pounds] payeth never a peny. Alas what a detestable mynde is tis to why sooner x. or xx. thousand to be slayne than to departe from x. or xx. se. [shillings] Is there any honeste mannes arme but it wold fyght alone if it were cutte of ayenst suche pestilent and traiterous mankyllers? Is there any man so naked but he shal thinke him self twise armed that commeth to fyght in such a cause and ayenst such rebelles? Is there any that thynketh he can better bestowe his beste bloude than upon such murderers?
15. You saye we have ben ruled to muche. There is a prety fable which Plutarche doth recite. There was a serpente whose tayle bveganne to stryve with the heed. The tayle sayd "Heed, for so it is. I have folowed a great whyle, mesemeth reason that thou shuldest folowe me an other whyle." The foolyshe heed graunted the tayle to be obedient and foloweth hym. To be short, the tayle. made capitayne and ruler of the heed, nowe busteleth forthe, oft tymes knokynge hym selfe ayenst stones, prickynge him selfe with thornes, and also brynging the heed evermore in peril and daunger to be splyte. Shoulde it not be moche worse if the Kynges Grace shoude here suiters that comme in harneys and, beynge heed, applye to theyr requestis that seke nothynge but dissention, shedyinge of bloude, and ruyne of the whole realme? The Kynges Grace woll, as his true subjectes truste, so order this matter that here after the tayle shall be contente to do as the heed shal commaunde. The Kynge and this tgis his realme shulde be so fortunate if these rude countreyes knewe as well as the noble and faythefull cittie of Londona nd other cyvyle places of Englande doo, howe much more they be bounde to love and trewely serve Kynge Henry the viii. For what act sens [since] Christes departure was more to be commended than this exaumople that our mooste gracyous prynce hath gyven unto all foreign pryncis, that is, nothynge to aperteyne more to a kynges office then to redresse thynges of religion, to putte downe hypocrisye, and to restore honestie to her place agayne? What coude be imagen more godly than the appositions whiche are nowe in hande, for to knowe who be shepherdes and who be wolves, who be able to teche and who be yet to larne? What commendacyon can be so great but hit shall seeme farre to smalle, gyven to a prince that takeeth suche care to see relygion proofme restored, his people nowe welle taughte which so longe hathe been deluded?
16. Sory I must nedes be to se monkes, friers and priestes, whiche so longe stode doubtyng whether they myght aknowlege our souveraygne lorde the Kynge to be theyr heed so withoute any staggerynge to have made a coobbler their heed. Soory I am to se that such sedicious traytours shulde cumber [obstruct] so honest a purpose, so godly an intent. Howe be it I truste theyr cumbrynge of it shall sette it moche more forthe then thoughe they had endevoured theym selve with all redynes to sette it forwarde. Thus God when Him lusteth can make Hia ennemyes fyght for Him when they thynke most to fyghte ayenste Him. I doubte not but they shall moche encrace the Kynges honour whiche have doone and yet do all thar their myght may to have dishonoured hym. What greater prouffe coude His Grace have of his nobles, true and loyal people, than in such occasyon to have shewed theym selfe so faithefull, so trusty, so wyllyninge, and so obeysaunt? What woulde they doo if straungers came which ayenste theyr owne were so redy? I saye more, the Kynge is moche bounde to these traytours that have soo assured His Grace of his subjectes benevolence towarde hym. Wherfore most noble Dukes, Earles, Lordes, with all the nobylitie, doubte you nothynge but you have done service to a prynce that bothe doeth consyder your hartes and wyll hyghely recompence your faythful peynes. Howe be it what greater reward can there be of fidelitie then the joye that an honeste harte receyveth of his faythefull doynge? Ill be it these traytouirs have doone moche hur†e, yet surely they have doone the nobles of England hygh service.
17. You may also be joyfull, you I saw whome the Kynges Grace ever hath taken for his trewe sujectes,and nowe in very dede hath soo founde you. Lette them be sory that have deserved sorowe. Lette us be sorye for nothynge but that these traytours shal cause the Kyng to stryve with his nature and there to do justyce where he gladly wolde have shewed hym selfe mercyfull. Lette not this pernyciouse exampole of these rebels any thynge alienate our myndes from the feare of God, the love of our prynce. Let us recognise our duitie unto bothe, and when bothe theyr commaundementes agree study to accomplyshe both. Let us nowe in the furious rage of these seditious traytouris declare our sefes bothe trewe Christen peple to God and feythful subjectes to the Kynge’s Grace, not onely redy to resist and pacifie but also utterly to exterpe [eradicate] and destroy these and al other suche beastes which by any colour shal go about to stoppe Goddis Worde, to sowe sedycion betwene our moste Christen and godly Kynge and his true and obedient servauntes. Kepe the commdementes of one and than you shall kepe both. For He that sayed kepe my commaundements sayde also give your prynce suche thynges as pertenye unto him. If thou doo not, here what He saythe Thou shalte be cursed in the citie and cursed in the felde. Cursed be thy berne [barn[ cursed be thy store, cursed be the fruites of thay bealye [belly] and the fruites of thy lande, the herdes of thy bullockes and the flocke of thy shepe. Cursed shalt thou be whan thou gooest in and whan thou comest out. The Lorde shall sende the hungre and thyrst and cursing in al that thou takest in hand til He have destroyed the.
18. All these maledictions lyghteth on them that sette lyght Goddes commandements. And for asmoche as they be al ade for succour and aide soner of men than that God hath any nede of our good doinges, which all the commaundementes is more necessary for us than this, obey yeyour kynge? Doinge all the other and breakynge but this, howe can we lyve one by an other? Howe can we lacke any myschiefe, any sorowe, if sedicion entre among us? God thretned before, how He falleth to desyrynge and saythe, He that wyll kepe my commandementes I wyll love him, blesse hym, and cause all his thynges to encrease. I wyll blesse his chyldren and his chyldrens chyldren, his corne, his pastures, his cattle, all his shall multply. Who can hate hym that God loveth? Or what maketh matter if traytours hate hym that God promiseth to defende? If God be on our syde, the cobbler hath clouted evylle, he hath put to moche hempye in his ingylle [fireplace]. God is with the right parte and can not leave it. Al traytours, God wylling, shal lerne by Lincolnshire nothing to be more odious to God and Man than treason. God save the Kynge.

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