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<OPENER>HENRY THE EYGHT BY THE GRACE OF GOD KYNG OF Englande, France, and Irelande, defen|dour of the faythe, and in earthe of the churche of Englande and also of Ireland supreme head, vnto all his faythfull and louyng subiectes sendeth greetyng.</OPENER>
<P>LIke as in the tyme of darknes and igno|raunce, fyndynge out people seduced & dra|wen frome the truthe by hipocrisye and su|perstition: we by the helpe of god and his worde, haue tra|uayled to purge and clense our realme from the apparaunt enormities of the same, wherin by openynge of goddis truthe, with settyng furth and publy|shinge of the scriptures, our laboures (thankes be to god) haue not ben void and frustrate: So nowe perceiuynge, that in the tyme of knowledge, the de|uyll (who ceasseth not in all tymes to vexe the worlde) hathe attented to re|turne agayn (as the parable in the go|spelle sheweth) into the house purged and clensed, accompanyed with seuen ... </P></DIV1></FRONT>
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