“I have received your letters, whereby it appeareth you be in great discomfort, and do desire that I should find the means to speak with you. For answer whereunto, ye shall understand, that how great so ever your discomfort is, it can be no greater than mine, who hath upon your letters spoken so much of your repentance for your wilfull obstinacy against the King’s Highness, and of your humble submission in all things, without exception and qualification, to obey to his pleasure and laws, that knowing how diversely and contrarily you proceeded at the late being of his Majesty’s counsell with you, I am both ashamed of that I have said, and likewise afraid of that I have done; in so much that what the sequel thereof shall be God knoweth. Thus with your folly you undoe yourself, and all that hath wished your good; and yet I will say unto you, as I have said else where heretofore; that it were great pity ye should not be an example in a punishment, if ye will make yourself an example in the contempt of God, your natural father and his lawes, by your own only fantasie, contrary to the judgements and determinations of all men, that ye must confess do know and love God as well as you, except you will show yourself presumption. [Hearne says: “Evidently a mistake for presumptuous as in the margin of Dr. Smith’s copy”.] Wherefore, Madam, to be plain with you, as God is my witnes, like as I think you the most obstinate and obdurate woman all things considered, that ever was, and one that so persevering, well deserveth the reward of malice in extremity of mischief: so I dare not open my lips to name you, unless I may have such a ground thereunto, that it may appear you were mistaken, or at least that you be both repentant for your ingratitude and miserable unkindness, and ready to do all things that ye be bound unto by your duty of allegiance, if nature were secluded from you, and in a like degree planted in the same, as it is in every other common subject. And therefore, I have sent unto you a certain book of articles whereunto if you will sett your name, you shall undoubtedly please God, being the same conformable to his truth, so as you will in semblable manner conceive it in your heart without dissimulation. Upon the receipt whereof again from you, with a letter declaring that you think in heart that you have subscribed with hand, I shall eftsones adventure to speak for your reconciliation. And if you will not with speed leave all your sinister counsells, which have brought you to the point of utter undoing, without remedy, and herein follow mine advice, I take my leave of you for ever, and desire you never to write or make mean unto me hereafter. For I will never think you other than the