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As we going to sleep, separate our selves from company, so we have separated our selves from the Sea of Rome, no Realm in Christendom like us, and as Shepherds dream sometimes of killing, maiming, or drowning, and sometimes of beastliness, so we have not only dreamed of beastliness, but also done it: and as in sleep, all ones senses is stopped, that he cannot see, not smell, nor hear; so the Ceremonies of the Church being to move our senses, are taken away, whereby our senses are stopped: and further, when a man would sleep, he will put out the Candle, least it wake him. So lately, all such Writers as did hold with the Apostolic Sea, are forbidden to be read, and Images, which were Lay mens Books, were cast down and burned.

As we going to sléepe, separate our selues from company, so we haue separated our selues from the Sea of Rome, no Realme in Christendome like vs, and as Shepheards dreame sometimes of killing, mayning, or drowning, and sometimes of beastlinesse, so we haue not onely dreamed of beastlinesse, but also done it: and as in sléepe, all ones senses is stopped, that hee cannot see, not smell, nor heare; so the Ceremonies of the Church being to mooue our senses, are taken away, whereby our senses are stopped: and further, when a man would sleepe, he wil put out the Candle, least it wake him. So lately, all such Writers as did hold with the Apostolike Sea, are forbidden to be read, and Images, which were Lay mens Books, were cast downe and burned.

We have been this twenty years without a head, for when King Henry first took upon him the head of the Church, it was then no Church at all. After whom King Edward could not be head, but was only a shadow of a head: and in our Queens time we had no head, for she alone could not be head, and her two Arch-bishops were both convicted of one crime, and deposed in Henry the eights time, when the tumult was in the North, the King would have given the supremacy ⟨p. 248⟩again to the Pope, but the hour was not then come, least it had been said he did it for fear. After Master Knevet and I were sent Ambassadors to the Emperor, to be a means to reconcile the King to the Pope, but the time was not come, for it might be said it was done for policy: the matter was likewise moved in the beginning of King Edwards reign, hut the time was not yet come; for it might have been said, the King was bought & sold in his infancy, neither was the hour come in the beginning of the Queens reign, for it would have bin said it was done in weakness, and if it had been done when the King first came, it might have been said it had been done by violence, but now, hora est, when nothing can be objected, but that it is the providence of God. Now Pope Julius the hath sent unto us this most reverend Father the Cardinal, not to revenge injuries done, but to give his benediction to those which defamed and perscuted him.