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Show . ; r . I ' ' ~ .... _• , .,. •. tr , '~ "ti t./- • .. :'\ A-~~~~i~*-~~~~~~~~~~t~~~;t f.t~·~~OYL~ ~~)~~~~- )~ ~ll'll!:'l~~ ~l:~v.~. :.'~--~f~I~~~~fl.J:~•>..}:~\l'.~q;~:l!l~~!§q~ REPLY TO Mr. /7? I L L 1 .11 M S his EXA.LY.{INATION; And .Anfwer of the Letters fent to him by }ol!N ~OTToN. Uch a Letter to fuch a purp<ife,I doe remember I wrote unto M'. Williams about halfe a fcore yea res agoe. But whether this printed Letter be a true Copie thereof, or no, I doe not know ; for the Letter being fent fo long Iince, and no Copie of it ( that I can Iinde) referved by me; I can own it no further then I Iinde the matter and !lyle, expreffing the iudgement which I then ·had of his caufe of Separation, and the affeaion I bare unto his perfon. And for ought I fee, the Letter doth not unfitly expreffe both • • But how it came to be put in print, I cannot imagine.Sure I am ·It Wa8 without my privitie : and when I heard of it, it was to me Wlwelcome.Newes, as knowing the truth, and weight of Pliniu fpcecb, Aliud ejl fcribere uni, aliud omnibur. There be who thinke it was publifhed by M'. Williams himfelfe, or by fame of his friends, who had the Copie from him. Which latter might be the more ·p~obable, hec~ufe himfelfe denieth the publilhing of it : and it 1~eth in_my mind that I received many yeares agoe, a refutation ~It ( in a brotherly and ingenuous way) from a I! ranger to me, T tO~ (as I heare) well affeB:ed to him, M'. Sabine Starefmore. 0 wfl(lm ~ h~ri long agoe returned an Anfwer, but that he did A a no |