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Excerpt from Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of It, Vol. 1: Shewing the Various Emergencies of the Church of England, Under King Henry the Eighth; With Remarks and Observations Made Occasionally, of Persons in the Church and State, of Eminent Note in That King's Reign But I mufi let my Reader know, that I did not intend, when I took thi: Work in hand, to write a compleat Ecclefia ical Hz ory under thofe Three Supreme Governor: of thi: Land, and of all the Occurrence: and Event: of Religion and the Church in their Reign: . For that hath been done, or endeavoured by fome Hi orzographer: already. Mine are only Ecclefiafiical Memorials 5 and intended but to [apply what hath been omit ted by them, or to reelify fome Mz ake:, or sreprefentation: of Perfon: and Thing: Or to fill up and enlarge Matter:, more brie y or imperfeelly related in our publifhed Hz orie: . Nor do I pretend to compleat thofe W ritingn What I do i: only to com manicate to the World what I have of thi: Sort of Hzflory, out of my Store, and to digefi thefe Notice: in their proper Placer, Chronologically fiom Tear to Tear, a: they occurred. Hly Defign being chie y to bring to Light fach further Particularr, a: I have found in state-paper:, and Letter:, and Record:, and many other Original mss. Of the befi Sort, after long and dili gent Converfe with them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."