Grace from GOD the Father throught our Lord JESUS with perpetuall
Encrease of his holie spiritt.
May it please your maiestie that it is heir certainlie spoken that the
Queen of Scotland [_MARY Queen of Scots_] travaleht earnestlie to have
a treatise intituled _the first blast of the trompett_ confuted by the
answere of the learned in Diuerse realmes, And farther that she
lauboureht to inflambe the hartes of princes against the writar. And
because that it may appear that your maiestie hath interest, that she
myndeht to trauall with your grace, your graces counsell, and learned
men for Judgement against such a common enemy to women and to thair
regiment. It were but foolishnes to me to prescribe vnto your maiestie
what is to be done in any thing but especialie in such thinges as men
suppose Do tuoch my self. But of on[e] thing I think my self assured
and therefor I Dar[e] not conceall it. To witt that neyther Doht our
soueraine so greatlie fear her owen estate by reasson of that book,
neyther yet Doth she so vnfeanedlie fauour the tranquilitie of your
maiesties reing and realme that she wo[u]lde tack so great and earnest
paines onles that her crafty counsall in so Doing shot att a farther
marck.
Two yeres ago I wrote vnto your maiestie my full Declaration tuoching
that work, experience since hath schawen that I am not Desirous of
Innovations [i.e. in _Government_], so that CHRIST JESUS be not in his
members openlie troden vnder the feitt of the vngodlie. With furthie
purgation I will not trouble your maiestie for the present. Besechinge
the Eternall so to assist your Highnes in all affaires, that in his
sight you may be found acceptable, your regiment profitable to your
common wealht, and your factes [deeds] to be such that Iustlie thei may
be praised of all godlie vnto the cuming of the lord JESUS to whose
mighty protection I unfeanedlie committ your maiestie.