The second [seventh] sermon of Master Hugh Latimer which he preached before the Kings…The seconde [seventh] sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer which he preached before the Kynges…

Postquam autem sederit in solio regni sui. &c. ¹And when the King is set in the seat of his kingdom, he shall write him out a book & take a copy of y• priests ⟨image 10⟩or Levites. He shall have the book with him, and why? to read in it all the days of his life, to learn to fear God, and learn his Laws, and other things, as it followeth in the text with the appurtenances and hangings on, that he turn not from God, neither to the right hand, nor to the left. And wherefore shall he do this? that he may live long, he and his children. Hitherto goeth the text. That I may declare this the better to the edifying of your souls and the glory of God, I shall desire you to praye. &c. Et posquam sederit &c. Before I enter into this place (right honourable audience) to furnish it accordingly, which by the grace of god ⟨image 10⟩I shall do at leisure, I would repeat the place I was in last, & furnish it with an history or two which I left out in my last sermon. I was in a matter concerning the sturdiness of the Jews,² a froward and styfnecked kind of people, much like our English men now a days, that in the minority of a King, take upon them to break laws & to go by ways. For when god had promised them a king, when it came to the point they refused him. These men walked by walks, and the saying is, many bywalkes,³ many balks, many balks much stumbling, and where much stumbling is, there is sometime a fall, how be it there were ⟨image 11⟩some good walkers among them, that walked in the kings high way ordinarily, uprightly, plain Dunstable way, and for this purpose, I would show you an history which is written in the third of the kings.

Postquam autem sederit in solio regni sui. &c. ¹And when the Kynge is sette in the seate of hys kyngdome, he shall wryte hym out a boke & take a copy of y pryestes