_To Innocent XI. Pope of Rome, S._
‘Behold, great prelate, a few questions written for the sake
of thee, and thy adherents, a copy whereof we sent thee by the
post, about three months ago; but being uncertain whether it
was delivered into thy hands or no, we thought good to write
the questions over again, and send them to thee, that it might
not belong to us, that thou dost not read them. For we think
it convenient, that thou shouldst earnestly concern thyself to
inspect what was printed in Dutch, and inscribed to the pope
and his adherents, which if thou shalt please to do, and also
vouchsafe thy pains in answering them both by fact and writing,
it will satisfy the author’s desire, and remove a doubt or
scruple out of many persons’ minds. Farewell.
This I have written in the name of some
of my friends called Quakers.