And if in the black catalogue of high malefactor few
can be found that have lived more to the affliction
and disturbance of mankind than your Highness hath
done, yet your greatest enemies will not deny but
there are likewise as few that have expired more to
the universal benefit of mankind than your Highness
is like to do. To hasten this great good is the chief
end of my writing this paper ; and if it have the



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effects I hope it will, your Highness will quickly be
out of the reach of men's malice, and your enemies
will only be able to wound you in your memory,
which strokes you will not feel. That your High-
ness may be speedily in this security is the universal
wishes of your grateful country. This is the desires
and prayers of the good and of the bad, and it may
be is the only thing wherein all sects and factions do
agree in their devotions, and is our only common
prayer. But amongst all that put in their requests
and supplications for your Highnesses speedy deliver-
ances from all earthly troubles, none is more assi-
duous nor more fervent than he who, with the rest
of the nation, hath the honour to be,

May it please your Highness,

Your Highness's present slave and vassal,

W. A.
Killing no Murder.
