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Here included (learned Sir) we send the answer to your second letter (long since delivered us) which we wrote the day after we had received yours: not afterward thought we needed not send it (unless some other occasion were offered) both because your self intimated as if you would be silent / if we wrote again / and because in very deed you did in those letters yield us the cause and answered nothing at all to any purpose / either touching our Confession of faith which was published / or touching our former letters / which we sent unto you thereabout. Of all which things / now let the Reader judge. If you ask / why we changed our purpose / and have now sent you this letter / which was written so long since: •o here this little book included withal / to wit / your letters translated into English and set forth in print. Whereupon we are constrained / not only to send these written unto you / but to set them forth in public also in the English tongue. Yet let nothing here offend you: for it is we / if any / that are injured yea and the truth it self: inasmuch as your first letter was published alone / without our answer which you received from us. By whose fault / to what end / with what equity / mind you well. Sure that Priest which translated yours / writeth in his preface (how truly you know) that your self delivered the copy of your first letter to a worshipful knight / of whom he received it / and ⟨p. 53⟩turning it into English imprinted it, Yet have we not hitherto given unto any so much as a copy either of yours or our own: providing (what we could) for your credit / yea so / as we neglected our own our selves / and were traduced by others / as now by this book published will appear unto all. But perhaps in this matter you purposed one thing / he another. Whatsoever it were / now you cannot but see / how the Prelates and Priests of our country do so interpret your letters / as if they had been written against the truth of the Gospel of Christ / which we profess / and for defence of the Antichristian Apostasy and tyranny / wherein they persist. Which thing we leave unto you / to be weighed seriously before the Lord.

HEre included (learned Sir) we send the answer to your second letter (longe synce delyvered vs) which we wrote the day after we had received yours: not afterward thought we needed not send it (vnles some other occasion were offered) both because your self intimated as if you would be silent / if we wrote agayne / and because in very deed you did in those letters yeeld vs the cause and answered nothing at all to any purpose / eyther touching our Confession of faith which was publyshed / or touching our former letters / which we sent vnto you thereabout. Of all which things / now let the Reader judge. If you aske / why we chaunged our purpose / and have now sent you this letter / which was wrytten so longe synce: o here this litle booke included withall / to witt / your letters trāslated into English and set forth in print. Wherevpon we are constreyned / not only to send these wrytten vnto you / but to set them forth in publyck also in the English tounge. Yet let nothing here offend you: for it is we / if any / that are injuried yea and the truth it self: inasmuch as your first letter was publyshed alone / without our answer which you receyved from vs. By whose fault / to what end / with what equitie / mynd you well. Sure that Priest which trāslated yours / wryteth in his preface (how truly you know) that your self delyvered the copy of your first letter to a worshipfull knight / of whō he receved it / and