The second reply of Thomas CartwrightThe second replie of Thomas Cartwright

It were an evil interpretation / to expound the inhabitants off the city / the chief off the city: especially considering that the decree of other Emperors which followed / ordained that the minister should be chosen by all the people. And considering that the Novels in latin / are corrupt in many places: it is unreasonable to expound the Code / and other laws by them / especially with such open violence. And it may be that the translator in steed off the heads of families / put the heads off the city: but for this also I will not strive. What ether against my cause / or for yours / conclude you off that the Metropolitan ordained one off the three, which were chosen after that sort? Likewise what gain you / if (which is untrue / or very doubtful as that which hath authority off both sides) a man should accord you / that Charles the great, was Emperor of the French, and not off the Dutch? Thes are nothing but baits to draw from the cause / which you would so fain shift your hands of. The shelter also you seek in those words (according to the canons off that diocese) will not hold out the whether. For although it might be thereby gathered / that there were several Ceremonies in the elections off the dioceses: yet it is plain by his words / that the elections were through out, made by the church: which is that we desire.

Yt were an euill interpretation / to expound the inhabitantes off the cytie / the cheife off the citie: especially considering that the decree of other Emperours vvhich followed / ordeined that the minister should be chosen by all the people. And considering that the Nouelles in latin / are corrupte in many places: yt is vnreasonable to expound the Code / and other lawes by them / especially with such open violence. And yt may be that the translator in steed off the heades of families / put the heades off the citie: but for this also I will not striue. What ether against my cause / or for yowres / conclude yow off that the Metropolitan ordeined one off the three, which were chosen after that sort? Likewise what gaine yow / if (which is vntrue / or very doutefull as that which hath autoritie off bothe sides) a man should accord yow / that Charles the great, was Emperour of the French, and not off the Duch? Thes are nothing but baites to draw from the cause / which yow would so faine shifte yowr handes of. The shelter also yow seke in those wordes (according to the canons off that diocese) will not holde owt the whether. For although it might be therby gathered / that there vvere seuerall Ceremonies in the elections off the dioceses: yet it is plaine by his wordes / that the elections vvere throvvgh ovvt, made by the church: vvhich is that vve desire.