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TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL AND RELIGIOUS HIS VERY kind Cozen, Sr ROBERT COOKE Knight, eldest Son and Heir to that worthy Knight Sr WILLIAM COOKE late deceased: Long life and good days, with increase of Grace here, and eternal Glory hereafter.

TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL AND RELIGIOVS HIS VERY kinde Cozen, Sr ROBERT COOKE Knight, eldest Sonne and Heire to that worthy Knight Sr WILLIAM COOKE late deceased: Long life and good dayes, with increase of Grace here, and eternall Glory hereafter.

HOPEFUL SIR,

HOPEFVLL SIR,

This weak work was intended your worthy Father now deceased, unto whom so many bonds of alliance, of dependence, of ancient acquaintance, and of continued beneficence so straitly tied, so deeply engaged me; and whom therefore next after mine Honourable Patron, and that Worshipful Society, wherein I spent so much time, and whereof I ⟨image 3⟩remain yet an unworthy and unprofitable member' I could not in this kind over-slip without some just note of ingratitude. But since it hath pleased God unexpectedly (to our great loss and grief, though, no doubt, his ^afar greater gain) to remove him hence, and to receive him thither where he now resteth, as without² need, so beyond reach of these Offices, I know none that may better lay claim to it then your self, who are to rise up in his room, and to stand in his stead, as First-borne in that Family, whereof he lately was Head. I shall not need to add, w inducements and encouragements I might further receive to address these my poor endeavours that way, from those pregnant prints as well of piety as other good parts evidently discovering themselves in your own person, observed by others as well as my self, and the rather observed, because so rare ordinarily in others of your years, and of your rank. The consideration whereof, as