This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...of so fay thful a frend, wyth whome I haue byn so many yerys brought vp in cumpany & oontynual study, not wythout gret hope, that as we had spent togyddur our youthe in study of letturys, so the rest of our lyfys we schold haue consumyd lyke maner in the serayce of your grace & of our cuntrey: for though we swaruyd many tymys in our Page 458. 1 Starkey's Object In Writing Ttiis Letter. jugemcnte, insprchyng the trutho in phylosopny, yet I nctier thought we schold so haue varyd in such grete materys perteynyng to relygyon and 1 to commyn pollycy. I neuer thought hym to bo of so base a jugcme?it as he hathe by hys wrytyng manyfestely schowyd, and though in smal materys many tymys he appcryd to mo to erre, and corruptely to iuge, yet bycause I perceyuyd ever in hym such a constant loue & stabyl opynyon of that wych apperyd to hym to sowne to vertue & honestye, euer me thought hys errorys were tollerabuL, spryngyng rather of weke iugement then of any obstynacye: but now sythen that he hathe sett forthe so corrupt a sentence as hyt apperyth to me in your most weyghty cause, & schowyd so sklaunderouse a iugement of your gracys actys, though as he takythe god to wytnesse, hyt spryngyth of loue toward your gracys honowre, that he hathe wryten so scharpely, yet thys I wyl say & playnly aflyrme, that yf he wold set out the same to the face of the world, as be hathe in hys boke descrybyd wyth hys penne, I wold take hym to be an extreme ennymye bothe to your grace, to your state, & to our hole cuntrey: for what scharpenes of wordys, what vyolence of sentence, what daungerys in pollycy, what peryl of damnatyon, he declaryth in hys boke, and propownyth to honge certaynly ouer our hedys, hyt ys horrybul to redo, &...