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the same should be deprived of all such privileges and liberties, as were due to true and faithful Citizens. Our ancestors both among the people of God, and among the heathen, did consider, that the health, prosperity, & safeguard of the common weal, •th principally consist in the godly and virtuous bringing up of youth. If they be learnedly & fruitfully brought up, then shall they afterward prove, […] able Magistrates, some wise and faithful ⟨image 7⟩counsellors, some godly spiritual ministers, some learned schoolmasters, some diligent labourers, some cunning artificers, some, yea and ail obedient subjects to the high powers, and profitable members of the common weal. Contrariwise, if they be brought up in barbarous rudeness and with out any civility or knowledge of good letters & such other necessary arts: it must needs come to pass that they shall be rather pestilences than preservers of y• common weal. Therefore did our elders above all things show earnest diligence about y• godly training up of their youth, in honest & virtuous exercises, ever setting before their eyes, that learning to a noble man, is a joyful jewel, to the baser sort, a sure defence and a mighty bulwark, against the stout storms of froward fortune, & to a common weal a precious preservative. In like manner my Lords grace your father a prince of noble renown in whom •s in a true mirror lively shineth the beautiful bea mes of right nobility, considering that the office of a worthy Parent appeareth in nothing so manifestly as in the Godly bringing up of youth in heavenly mysteries, that is to say, in the knowledge of good letters and in the study of God's most blessed word, hath with my Ladies grace your mother a Lady of a notable godliness, and of singular pity toward y• poor members of Christ even from your cradles studied to train & bring up both my Lords your brothers, and my Ladies your Sisters and you likewise his graces children in good literature, and in the knowledge of Gods most holy laws, that ye may learn from your infancy to fear the Lord your God, and to walk in his godly ordinances, and so be come truly noble, not only for births sake, but also for learning and virtue, and for the Godly qualities of the mind.

the same should be depriued of all such priuiledges and liberties, as were due to true and faithfull Citizens. Our auncetors both amonge the people of God, and among the heathen, did consider, that the health, prosperitie, & safegard of the cōmon weale, th principally consiste in the godly and vertuous bringing vp of youth. If they be learnedly & fruitfully brought vp, then shall they afterward proue, ble Magistrates, some wyse and faythfull