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TO THE MOST
Reverend Father in God,
George Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterburie
his Grace, Primate and Metrapolitan
of all England:
and
The Right Reverend
Father in God, Samuel
Lord Arch-Bishop of Yorke
his Grace, Primate and Metrapolitan
of England.
My most Gracious Good Lords, I desire to leave testimony to
the world, how highly I honour as well the Miter as the Lance: therefore
where my last Booke presented three most honourable Earles
with a subject of Warre, and received from them favourable acceptance:
the worke I now prosecute, concerning the Plantation of New-England,
for the increase of Gods Church, ∥ converting salvages, and
enlarging the Kings Dominions, prostrates it selfe humbly to your
Graces; who as you are in the name of Prelacy to this Kingdome, so
you are to mee in goodnesse both Fathers and Protectors unexpectedly.
God long preserve your Gracious lives, and continue favour
1. George Abbot was raised to the see of Canterbury in 1611 and died in 1633 (see
the Biographical Directory).
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