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Worthy Sir /
I haue Receivd you Letter to my great satisfaction and I giue you many
thanks for your Labour therein, Sir I shall not truble <..> you furder
at this time with Quires, but I desire your praiers in the behalfe of my
deare husband, the parteing from whome, I finde to goe very nere
my heart, but I desire to submite to the hand of Prouidance, both
in that and all things elce, but in the day of tryal its very harde to
say thy will bee don, etc. at Lest it semes so to me in my (al-
most) daylie excerise of panes and sickness, which I vndergoe, dewring
the time I goe with child, I expect not to Injoy health vntel
it please the Almighty to grante me a safe deliuery, which I
hope may be about the midle of Iune, and if ┌it┐ should so happen
that you ware then in towne, I shal thinke it no small honour, if
I should Injoy that fauour, that you shold be a wittness of my childs
baptism, deare Sir pardon me, for I feare I haue presumed, for I
am not worthy to Lose the Latchet of your shoe, how much Lesse
of so great honour, but Indeed Sir I haue no other end but in the
Respect of your vertues, and those truely noble Indowments of your
minde, me thinks its sad to see that order of the church, so much a
bused as it dayly is, by chuseing such, as are very vnfite for so
solemne a duty, I confess most of my Acquantance are such as
either scruple at the Curcomstance, or slite the substance, but its no
wonder for some of them haue a very Lowe Esteme of him who
Instituted that Ordinance, euen Our euer blessed Lord, and saueour
Iesus Christ, through whose mercy I haue bin Presarued from
being corrupted with the errors of three diuided Iudgements that
haue foremerly Assalted me, therefore vnto him be the Praise etc.
yet I may I hope without Offince owne you deare Sir, as an In
-strement for good to me, and therefore without Complement I am
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deare Sir your Obliged friend and seruant ///Ann Mallett///
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